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Online Photo Printer: A company that receives digital photos uploaded to its Web site, prints them, then sends the prints back by mail or courier.

Photogravure: Method of printing photographs from an etched copper plate.

Photography: Literally writing or drawing with light (from the greek words photos meaning light and graphos, writing). First suggested by sir john herschel to william fox talbot in 1839.

Photogrammetry: Method of making precise measurements from photographs.

Photolamp: Tungsten filament photographic lamp with a large diffused bulb, giving light of 3200 k (kelvin).

Photogram: Pattern or design produced by placing opaque or transparent objects on top of a sensitive emulsion, exposing it to light and then developing it.

Photolithography: Lithographic printing process using an image formed by photographic means.

Photolinen: Laminate of linen and paper coated with black and white photographic emulsion. It is used for photographic wall coverings.

Photometer: Any of a number of atmospheric phenomena which appear as luminous patterns in the sky. They do not directly cause adverse weather. They include halos, coronas. rainbows, and fogbows.

Photogenic Drawing: Original name given by william fox talbot to his earliest method of recording camera images.