pistolgraphn.
/ˈpɪstlɡrɑːf/, /ˈpɪstlɡraf/, U.S. /ˈpɪstlˌɡræf/ Photography. Now historical.
A camera for taking instantaneous (short exposure) photographs, esp. of moving objects; a photograph taken by such a camera. Also figurative (usually attributive).
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ferlyc893
cofc1000
swiftc1000
smarta1325
suddenc1390
undelayed1439
wightlaykec1450
short1480
present1489
indelayed1523
on or upon a (or the) sudden1558
immediate1569
instant1598
momentaneous1657
abrupt1725
presto1767
summary1771
momentary1799
pistolgraph1859
fast1863
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > general types of
box camera1828
daguerreotype1839
view camera1851
pistolgraph1859
pinhole camera1861
panoramic camera1862
pantoscopic camera1865
pistolograph1866
pantoscope1879
detective camera1881
filmograph1881
photographometera1884
photochronograph1887
snap-shooter1890
stand camera1890
tele-objective camera1891
film camera1893
magazine camera1893
panoram1893
telephoto1894
mutograph1897
tele-camera1899
telephote1903
press camera1912
reflex1922
candid camera1929
minicam1935
single-lens reflex1936
plate camera1937
magic eye1938
subminiature1947
miniature1952
all-sky camera1955
microfilmer1959
stereo-camera1959
streak camera1962
gallery camera1964
SLR1964
TLR1965
spy-camera1968
pinhole1976
multi-mode1981
digicam1989
point-and-shoot1991
1859 Photogr. News 23 Dec. p. 111/2 (advt.) Skaife's patent pistolgraph.
1860 T. Skaife (title) Instantaneous photography, mathematical and popular, including practical instructions on the manipulation of the pistolgraph.
1866 Morning Star 2 Jan. It is for this class of portrait the pistolograph is chiefly intended.
1887 W. Gladstone in 19th Cent. Jan. 1 The instantaneous, or ‘pistol-graph’, criticisms demanded by the necessities of the daily press.
1901 Daily Chron. 27 Nov. 7/3 It has pictures of Nebraska and statistics—pistolgraph statistics.
1988 Time (Special Issue) (Nexis) Fall 26 1858 The first stop-action shot—of bombshells fired from a cannon in London—is taken by Thomas Skaife with a pistolgraph camera he designed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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