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PRISME-EN-TOIT [2 records]

Record 1 2017-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
  • Optical Instruments
  • Optics
OBS

This type of finder is reasonably accurate and it gives a bright picture that is neither inversed or reversed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Optique
CONT

Le bloc penta-prisme(prisme-en-toit), combiné avec un oculaire grossissant, fournit à l'œil une image droite, non inversée latéralement et grossie.

Spanish

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Record 2 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
  • Optical Instruments
  • Optics
OBS

--a five-sided glass prism inserted between the focusing screen and the viewing eyepiece of an eye-level reflex camera. Also sometimes called roof prism (...) also pentaprism unit p.1262

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Optique
OBS

il faut viser en plaçant l'appareil à hauteur de poitrine ou plus bas. Cette solution, bon marché et trop simpliste, est remplacée par un--, communément désigné par prisme-en-toit.

Spanish

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