film advance
- noun
- Archaic
:
avance de película
- Also, some cameras (some of Canon's EOS series, for example) use infrared sensors to monitor film advance.
Examples
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After each shot, I could hear the satisfying sound of the film advance moving to the next frame.
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Other features include automatic film loading, transport, and rewind; single frame or one frame per second continuous film advance; +/-1.5 EV exposure compensation; and a built-in diopter correction eyepiece.
Academic text (1995) -
Better to waste the first frame than to not have the film advance.
Blog text (22) -
We hear a soft film advance and shutter.
Fiction book (1995) -
The camera has a reliable film advance mechanism that ensures each frame is properly positioned.
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She was amazed to see how smoothly the film advance worked during the photo shoot.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'film' (strip of photographic material) with 'advance' (to move forward): it denotes the device or action that moves the film on to the next frame. This compositional noun phrase follows a transparent compound/nominalization pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended camera-related mechanism.
Etymology
Film advance comes from old cameras and projectors and names the part that moves the film forward a small step after each picture so the next image is ready. That's why the words film and advance show the idea of 'moving forward', and the phrase means the part that takes the film to the 'next frame'.
