enlarger
IPA: ɪnɫˈɑrgɝ
noun
- Any device that makes something bigger, or makes it appear bigger.
- (photography) An optical device used to make enlarged prints from a photographic negative
- (rare) One who enlarges.
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Examples of "enlarger" in Sentences
- Prints made with an enlarger are called enlargements.
- It was enlarged using Wikipedia's photo enlarger to 500px.
- Not all enlarger arrangements will handle it the lensing is a pain.
- Using a camera, enlarger, slide printer or Day Lab expose Polaroid film.
- I struggled to get the camera and enlarger to reveal what I loved about the world.
- Accordingly I would suggest getting a cheap enlarger and at least making contact prints traditionally.
- Bruce Arthurs: One of the interesting things about the Speed graphic is that one may use it as an enlarger.
- The fact that the contact prints are big enough to actually get detail out of is tremendously important, and almost every enlarger ever made can do a 6x6 negative.
- The result might have been what Nicholson calls "a detached typology of modernist industrial design" in which the enlarger stands at the centre, strangely human in its form.
- And as I moved all the junk off of the enlarger and found the rather elderly chemicals, I realized that I was fascinated by the idea of developing and printing my own pictures3.
- I loved how it looked, and I was interested in using the large-format film, although the school enlargers had no plates for it and the one boy who was using one had to make his own enlarger plates out of manila folders.
- The dim aura of red light, the smell of different chemical baths as you poured, the brilliant sharp focused light of the enlarger as you anxiously wait to see your negative secrets come to life; these are the sensory (even sensual) aspects of my paradise lost.
- My father used the upstairs bathroom as a darkroom when I was about young - light-tight blind, red lamp, sandbag thing along the bottom edge of the door to block light, developer/fixer trays in the bathtub, enlarger clamped on a sheet of heavy plywood over the sink & vanity - so darkroom chemicals are one of those deep-in-the-bone scents that mean "childhood" to me in some strange way, like yeast and cinnamon.
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