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HORIZONTAL PHOTOGRAPHY [4 records]

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Record 1 2026-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • The Eye
CONT

Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy is an imaging technique that mimics essential features of conventional fundus photography but has better spatial selectivity for the plane of interest in the fundus. Because [a scanning laser ophthalmoscope] picks up information only from a small volume in three-dimensional space at any given time and then reconstructs an image from a three-dimensional scanning array of such points, scatter and fluorescence from the anterior segment of the eye is very effectively rejected. Built on the flying-spot scanner principle, it only illuminates a spot with a diameter of a few micrometers at the fundus and then sweeps the spot across the horizontal and vertical directions of an image plane inside the eye...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Oeil
DEF

Examen du fond d'œil réalisé avec un ophtalmoscope permettant de visualiser la surface rétinienne grâce à une illumination produit par un faisceau laser mobile.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operations (Air Forces)
  • Photography
DEF

In air photography, the angle between the optical axis of an obliquely mounted air camera and the horizontal.

OBS

depression angle; angle of depression: designations and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations (Forces aériennes)
  • Photographie
DEF

En photographie aérienne, angle que fait avec le plan horizontal l'axe optique d'un appareil de prises de vues.

OBS

angle de dépression : désignation et définition normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Cartography

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télédétection
  • Cartographie
DEF

Photographie prise à l'aide d'une chambre dont l'axe optique est horizontal.

Spanish

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Record 4 1980-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
CONT

Horizontal enlargers(...) are used for graphic arts work(...) Vertical enlargers with the baseboard horizontal are almost universally used in other branches of photography.

OBS

An enlarger is made up of two principal units, the head assembly and the easel. (...) The two units are mounted on a track consisting of a rigid tube or a pair of guide rails (...) The whole arrangement may be designed to work with the guide rails horizontal or vertical. In the vertical arrangement, the track forms the support for the head assembly and is rigidly mounted on the easel to form a base; (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
OBS

L'équivalent français a été obtenu auprès d'une traductrice de la compagnie Kodak.

Spanish

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