Photographic terminology and words you love

cliveh · May 2, 2014

I quite like the term "box speed".

ntenny · May 2, 2014

I like "box speed" too, and I was quite surprised to run into a lab employee who has plenty of film experience but didn't know the term. Is it a regional term that only took off recently online, or something like that?

Someone on here once told me that "French film" used to be a term for shooting without film in the camera. (I expect the French called it "English film".) I haven't heard it elsewhere but I think it's wonderful.

-NT

wy2l · May 2, 2014

I am still confused about the Circle of Confusion.

NedL · May 2, 2014

ntenny said:
Someone on here once told me that "French film" used to be a term for shooting without film in the camera.....

So french film, used contre-jour would make one feel like a diptych.

Sometimes nice people leave nice comments on my photos and I don't have a clue what they're talking about

gone · May 2, 2014

Available light. I once dated a poet and she really liked this one. Off topic, but she had one poem called "Send My Thighs To Venice" that was just great. Met her at a 'frisco bus stop and we used to go dancing to Motown music at The Stud on Breeder's Night, meaning it was only about 95% gay instead of the usual 99%.

Paul Cunningham · May 2, 2014

ntenny said:
Someone on here once told me that "French film" used to be a term for shooting without film in the camera.
-NT

Not to be confused with a "French letter".

mauro35 · May 3, 2014

I like "film grain", both the word and the actual thing.

TheToadMen · May 3, 2014

'Analogue' instead of 'analog' and 'colour' instead of 'color.

Bert from Holland
http://thetoadmen.blogspot.nl

AgX · May 3, 2014

Bert, that is our last tool against supremacy from over the ocean.

TheToadMen · May 3, 2014

AgX said:
Bert, that is our last tool against supremacy from over the ocean.

If you really want to know when and why we lost the 'U' in coulor, (there was a url link here which no longer exists) (from post #9 onward).
Bert

bdial · May 3, 2014

"F 8 and be there" is good.

removed account4 · May 3, 2014

cliveh · May 3, 2014

jnanian said:
soup

Would that be mushroom or chicken?

Vaughn · May 3, 2014

"Glop"

Also known as "pigmented gelatin" used to make carbon tissue. Basically it is very thick Jell-O (water, gelatin, sugar and a pigment), warmed up to a little over 100F and then poured onto sheets of paper or plastic material.

It has been awhile so I am no longer sure that I can take full credit, but I believe I invented this use of the term back in the early Listserv days of the internet on a carbon printing 'forum". I got tired of writing 'pigmented gelatin' and other long variations and just started to call it glop. It caught on and is still used by many carbon printers.

Steve Smith · May 3, 2014

TheToadMen said:
If you really want to know when and why we lost the 'U' in coulor, (there was a url link here which no longer exists) (from post #9 onward).

I might have known that I would be responsible for that!

And when did # become the shortened version of number instead of No. ?

Steve.

E. von Hoegh · May 3, 2014

Photographic terminology and words you love

"Goerz Dagor".

ROL · May 3, 2014

Vaughn said:
"Glop"

...I believe I invented this use of the term back in the early Listserv days of the internet on a carbon printing 'forum".

Wrong. My mother invented the term, coining it for a (delicious) concoction of elbow macaroni, tomato sauce, and hamburger meat – passing for Italian fare in our mid 20th Century Midwest bred sensibilities. Looks like you may owe me some royalties.

Vaughn · May 3, 2014

ROL said:
Wrong. My mother invented the term, coining it for a (delicious) concoction of elbow macaroni, tomato sauce, and hamburger meat passing for Italian fare in our mid 20th Century Midwest bred sensibilities. Looks like you may owe me some royalties.

Truzi · May 3, 2014

My parents made some elbow macaroni, ground-meet, & tomato-sauce concoction that we really like. With various other ingredients, it is like an home-made Hamburger Helper. When my brother moved out and later married, he began eating in what he considered a "classy" manner (read, expensive). One day he dropped by as we were sitting down to this unnamed meal.

"Oh, you're having that? I love that crap!"

So now we call it "That Crap."

E. von Hoegh · May 3, 2014

Truzi said:
My parents made some elbow macaroni, ground-meet, & tomato-sauce concoction that we really like. With various other ingredients, it is like an home-made Hamburger Helper. When my brother moved out and later married, he began eating in what he considered a "classy" manner (read, expensive). One day he dropped by as we were sitting down to this unnamed meal.

"Oh, you're having that? I love that crap!"

So now we call it "That Crap."

You can drink this with that crap - http://hogsheadwine.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/2008mayolglop.jpg

ntenny · May 3, 2014

Steve Smith said:
And when did # become the shortened version of number instead of No. ?

That one is an Americanism, but I don't think anyone knows exactly where it came from. It may be from teletypes in the early 20th century.

My personal favo(u)rite name for it is "octothorpe".

-NT

cliveh · May 3, 2014

Royal Bromesko.

John Koehrer · May 3, 2014

NedL said:
So french film, used contre-jour would make one feel like a diptych.

A dip what?

NedL · May 3, 2014

John Koehrer said:
A dip what?

xactly!

Bob Carnie · May 4, 2014

When viewing prints I sometimes like referring to them as being ( flat as piss on a plate)

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