microflash
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]microflash (plural microflashes)
- (photography) A flash of extremely short duration.
- 1999, Sidney Ray, Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging, page 31:
- A microflash unit typically has two tubes with a variable delay unit to provide two timed flashes. Optical coupling of the flash tubes gives an equivalent spatial position to avoid parallax of shadows.
- 2015, Frank H. Johnson, Yata Haneda, Bioluminescence in Progress, page 283:
- Repetitive exposures from the same field allow unequivocal separation of noise from microflashes.