contact print
- noun
- Specialized
:
copia de contacto
- In the darkroom, she used a lightbox to examine the contact prints made from her recent photo shoot.
- make a contact print
Examples
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Sheets and sheets of contact prints, both color and black and white, spilled out all around them, on the coffee table, the sofa, and around their feet on the carpet.
Fiction book (1995) -
After developing the film, I carefully laid out the contact prints on the table to review each one.
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The contact print was too small to offer much detail, but she was closer to really seeing him than she had ever been.
Fiction book (1995) -
The different sizes of the two groups of contact prints are almost certain proof of this.
Academic text (1997) -
A week after the session, he sent me the pages of contact prints and told me to circle the ones I wanted printed.
Fiction book (1993) -
Contact prints can be made of developed film to reveal the exposure number of individual frames, including those not exposed.
Academic text (2000) -
In the course of time, I will send you a sheet of contact prints from which you may select those you would like, which I will then enlarge.
Fiction book (2002) -
When Lang returned to the American Museum of Natural History, contact prints of all of the photographs were numbered sequentially and attached to large sheets of heavy paper.
Academic text (1991) -
Partly because editing occurred between the printing and mounting of the contact prints and the construction of the ethnographic albums, the photographs in the albums appear more posed than they really are, at least when viewed sequentially within the total body of photographic work.
Academic text (1991) -
However, to make their positive contact prints all simultaneously, glossy, variable-contrast RC paper is better to permit altering contrast with a variable contrast filter under the same 15-watt overhead lamp.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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1.3
A photo printed on paper from a negative or digital file
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3.1
A picture on paper made from a camera or digital file
How Enlarged
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is a straightforward composition of 'contact' (physical touch) + 'print' (a produced photograph), so the core meaning — a photograph produced by direct contact with the negative — is directly inferable from the parts. This is a literal, descriptive technical term that follows normal English compounding patterns (and similar constructions occur in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand the basic concept.
Etymology
The noun contact print comes from a darkroom method where a film negative is placed in direct contact with light-sensitive paper so the print is the 'same size' as the negative. So the name describes how the photo is made: by touching the negative to the paper to make a picture.