microflash
nounEtymology From micro- + flash.
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Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography A flash of extremely short duration.
- 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.1999, Sidney Ray, Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging, page 31:
- Repetitive exposures from the same field allow unequivocal separation of noise from microflashes.2015, Frank H. Johnson, Yata Haneda, Bioluminescence in Progress, page 283: