Plate camera - camera designed to take glass plates but often adapted to take cut film.
Point source lamp - arc type lamp producing light from a small gap between two carbon rods.
A few plate cameras - magazine cameras - (e.g. the Houghton Klito No.1) adopted a "falling plate" arrangement, where a number of plates were kept in a sprung magazine, usually behind the focal plane.
Despite the advances in low-cost photography made possible by Eastman, plate cameras still offered higher-quality prints and remained popular well into the 20th century.
He worked for society photographer Lenare between 1972 and 1977, shooting the aristocracy with a wooden half-plate camera.
For scenic work, everything from 35mm to 8x10 plate cameras can be used. Each format is something of a trade off between cost, convenience and quality.
-One shot color camera is an obsolete plate camera making three color separation negatives from a single exposure.
-One shot developer is a developer that is used on a single occasion and then discarded.
In 1860 only a few skilled artisans like my great-great-great grandfather in Scotland could coax any sort of an image at all from a plate camera while normal people couldn't even take photos at all.
His solution: a massive copper housing, so large it had to be tethered to a pressure-compensating balloon. Inside his housing was a 5x7-inch wet-plate camera capable of exposing a single frame per dive.
 See also: Plate, Camera, Image, Film, Lens
  
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