neg
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9.3
- noun
- /nɛg/
- Specialized
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negativo
- The photographer reviewed the neg to assess the lighting and contrast before printing the final photo.
- neg format
And then and then working with film and negatives.
- And then and then working with film and negatives.
- So photographic art has no real scarcity until it's signed or you have the negative.
Examples
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A few weeks later, I got a package with the negs and my copies of prints.
Blog text (6) -
Back at the shop, they'll go through the negs, making two piles: keep or toss.
Fiction book (1992) -
Well, this one, I took it before that one, but when I developed it was very the negative was very dark.
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Hey, how long has this neg roll been here... out in the open?
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It's the negative, you know, the neg...
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An acquisition like these Warhol contact sheets and the negatives provide an incredible opportunity to fulfill that mission.
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She carefully placed the neg in an album to preserve the image for years to come.
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After developing the film, he was excited to see the neg showcasing the stunning landscape.
Synonyms
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5.8
A piece of film with reversed colors for making prints
A film made from the original that helps make many prints for a movie
Surface Forms
Etymology
Neg is short for negative, a word that came to mean 'reversed'. A photographic neg shows light and dark in reverse, which is why you use a neg to make the final print of a photo.