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CAMERA CONTROL UNIT [4 records]

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Record 1 2008-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

The camera control unit also interfaces to the aircraft to monitor the landing gear door status. When the landing gear door is open the forward camera is automatically activated to provide a view of taxi, takeoff and landing.

PHR

Door, gear status.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
CONT

[...] état du train (position du train et des trappes, pression des roues, température des freins).

PHR

État des crochets de verrouillage des trains.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
CONT

The automatic flash unit built into a digital camera uses a permanent electronic tube that emits a short, intense burst of light. This reusable light source is combined with a sophisticated light measuring and exposure control system. These built-in flash units let you take photos when available light is dim or non-existent. They also allow you to fill in dark shadows on sunny days.

CONT

Most compact cameras and some SLR cameras have a small built in flash unit. This enables you to take simple snapshots in poor light.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
DEF

Flash faisant partie intégrante de l'appareil photographique.

OBS

Ce système élimine les pieds-sabots, les câbles d e synchronisation, etc.

OBS

Pluriel : des flashs ou des flashes.

OBS

flashs (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
  • Research Experiments in Space
CONT

The clean bench installed in JEM provides a sterilized closed work space for life sciences experiments such as handling of cells, microorganisms, or small plants. This clean bench consists of an operation chamber, a disinfection chamber and a control unit to communicate with JEM system. The operation chamber can be drawn out from the main part of the clean bench to make sufficient working area. The operation chamber contains a phase-contrast microscope that is also used as a fluorescence microscope and a CCD camera for inspection.

OBS

clean bench; CB: term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group (ISSOAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
  • Travaux de recherche dans l'espace
OBS

banc stérile : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

Spanish

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Record 4 1982-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
CONT

The most recent development with electronic flash units was born of a marriage of electronics between the camera and flash unit. They are known as "dedicated" or "electronically matched. "When used with cameras having the proper circuitry, they can set the camera's shutter to its correct synchronization speed(and surrender control back to the camera while recycling), activate ready-light indicators and confidence lights in the viewfinder, and, in some cases, set the camera to the appropriate f-number.

OBS

CAMAR: see the March/April issue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
CONT

Son champ d'utilisation [il s'agit de l'appareil-photo Ricoh XR 7] est encore élargi par la facilité des expositions multiples et par une gamme d'accessoires étendue : l'objectif Autofocus à mise au point automatique [...], le moteur [...] compact, le flash Speedlite 180 automatique, couplé [...]

OBS

Voir fiche "dedication" = "couplage d'automatisme". On rencontre parfois l'expression "flash dédié" pour rendre le terme anglais "dedicated flash"; il s'agit évidemment d'un calque.

Spanish

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