Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
argentique
English translation:
silver(-based) emulsion
Added to glossary by
Florence Bremond
Jul 15, 2002 11:11
21 yrs ago
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French term
argentique
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
Photography
Term used about photography, as opposed to 'numérique' which I know means 'digital'. The phrase where the word appears is 'La maîtrise du traditionnel support argentique ou l'usage de la nouvelle technologie numérique...'
Proposed translations
(English)
4 +1 | silver emulsion | Florence Bremond |
5 +1 | silver | Rowan Morrell |
Proposed translations
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silver emulsion
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To say truth, I have a friend who is a photographer in the US and he told me recently that it is much less used than \'argentique\' is here.
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\"In addition to our silver emulsion technology, we also fully embrace
digital technology particularly for postproduction work\"
http://www.davidcurrydesign.com/downloads/photography_capabi...
\"Digital technology is giving him possibilities he never had before.
A year ago, Stephen Johnson stopped using traditional silver emulsion \"
http://www.sjphoto.com/halla_sj.html
\"improving by leaps and bounds in the past few years, I see a very noticeable difference
in the quality of the images between the digital and silver-emulsion \"
http://www.lensimages.com/prints.htm
\"Digital image is in pixels – can capture higher resolution than 72 dpi but takes
more memory – does not have the same “quality” as silver-emulsion image \"
http://www.csupomona.edu/~llsoe/cis421/digital.htm
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Canon :
\"This enables photographers using silver-emulsion cameras to make
the transition to digital photography easily. \"
http://www.canon.co.nz/news/story_39.html
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Note added at 2002-07-15 11:15:08 (GMT)
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To say truth, I have a friend who is a photographer in the US and he told me recently that it is much less used than \'argentique\' is here.
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Note added at 2002-07-15 11:17:29 (GMT)
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\"In addition to our silver emulsion technology, we also fully embrace
digital technology particularly for postproduction work\"
http://www.davidcurrydesign.com/downloads/photography_capabi...
\"Digital technology is giving him possibilities he never had before.
A year ago, Stephen Johnson stopped using traditional silver emulsion \"
http://www.sjphoto.com/halla_sj.html
\"improving by leaps and bounds in the past few years, I see a very noticeable difference
in the quality of the images between the digital and silver-emulsion \"
http://www.lensimages.com/prints.htm
\"Digital image is in pixels – can capture higher resolution than 72 dpi but takes
more memory – does not have the same “quality” as silver-emulsion image \"
http://www.csupomona.edu/~llsoe/cis421/digital.htm
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Note added at 2002-07-15 11:19:31 (GMT)
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Canon :
\"This enables photographers using silver-emulsion cameras to make
the transition to digital photography easily. \"
http://www.canon.co.nz/news/story_39.html
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Comment: "Absolutely great - thanks very much indeed.
Nicky Over"
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silver
Very definitely. Check out Eurodicautom. "Argentique" is the adjectival form of "argent".
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