While most professional medium format cameras are very expensive, some inexpensive plastic imports, such as the Diana and Holga, are gaining in popularity, particularly with toy camera enthusiasts. Due to the poor quality of the camera, the exact image captured on the negative is somewhat random in nature. These camera usually have distorted lenses that offer poor or uneven focus, light leaks that vignette or oddly colorize an image, and a multitude of other "flaws" that are generally undesirable to photographers. While these elements certai ...

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Medium format, Medium format - Characteristics, Medium format - Medium format photography today, Medium format - Lomography and other low-budget medium format cameras, Medium format - Medium-format cameras, Medium format - Types, Medium format - Common brands

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The term "interstellar" appears to be have been first used in print by Francis Bacon in 1626 where he wrote: "The Interstellar Skie.. hath .. so much Affinity with the Starre, that there is a Rotation of that, as well as of the Starre." (Sylva §354–5). The nature of the interstellar medium has recieved the attention of astronomers and scientists over the centuries. Natural philosopher, Robert Boyle summised: "The inter-stellar part of heaven, which several of the modern Epicureans would have to be e ...

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Interstellar medium, Interstellar medium - History

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How the interplanetary medium interacts with planets depends on whether they have magnetic fields or not. Bodies such as the Moon have no magnetic field and the solar wind can impact directly on their surface. Over many billions of years, the lunar regolith has acted as a collector for solar wind particles, and so studies of rocks from the moon's surface can be valuable in studies of the solar wind. High energy particles from the solar wind impacting on the ...

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Interplanetary medium, Interplanetary medium - Composition and physical characteristics, Interplanetary medium - Extent of the interplanetary medium, Interplanetary medium - Interaction with planets, Interplanetary medium - Observable phenomena of the interplanetary medium, Interplanetary medium - History

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Light Trance Medium:

A person whom spirits can communicate through. The spirit wishing to communicate through them does not possess light trance mediums.

(See also: Light Trance Medium, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Medium TV series - Executive producers. Glenn Gordon Caron René Echevarria Ronald L. Schwary Kelsey Grammer Steve Stark ...

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Medium TV series, Medium TV series - Plot, Medium TV series - Cast, Medium TV series - Executive producers, Medium TV series - Awards, Medium TV series - Trivia, Medium TV series - Episodes, Medium TV series - Season 1, Medium TV series - Season 2

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At first blush the Medium C looks a lot like its rival the Medium B. It too has the general rhomboid shape of the heavy tanks combined with a fixed turret with ball-mounts for five machine guns. However Tritton's Medium Mark C was a much longer vehicle. It had a separate engine compartment at the back like the Medium B, but here it was large enough to house a normal 6 cylinder Ricardo engine behind a standard epicyclic transmission. Also it was easily accessible from the fighting compartment. The larger engine meant the tank had better speed ...

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Medium Mark C, Medium Mark C - Development, Medium Mark C - Description, Medium Mark C - Operational History

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The engineer Lieutenant Walter G. Wilson and the industrialist Sir William Tritton had cooperated in 1915 to develop the Mark I, the world's first tank. However, when Tritton decided to build the Medium Mark A "Whippet" , Wilson was left out. The Medium A was designed by Tritton's chief engineer, William Rigby. The Whippet was a successful design and proved effective but suffered from a lack of power, complex steering and unsprung suspension. Wilson, now a Major, decided he could by himself develop a better tank as replacement: the 'Medium T ...

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Medium Mark B, Medium Mark B - History

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Webserials typically come in three main styles of plot cohesiveness. One is self-contained, a storytelling style which has no or little plot connections between installments. Stories are tied together by their 'universe', subject matter, atmosphere, or plot structure. Stories such as these are very often surrealist or vignettes, although some authors do use this format simply to gain the ability to s ...

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Webserial, Webserial - Medium, Webserial - Publication, Webserial - Business

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In the late 1800s, Gatling gun and other externally-powered types such as the Nordenfelt were often made in different ranges of calibers, such as half-inch and one-inch. Thanks to their many barrels, overheating was not so much of issue, and they were also quite heavy; being, essentially, heavy machine guns. When Maxim developed his recoil-powered machine gun that used a single barrel, the first main design was a modest 26 pounds (11.8 kg), and fired a .45-inch rifle caliber bullet (from 24 inch barrel). As a famous photo of Mr. Maxim ...

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The interplanetary medium includes interplanetary dust, cosmic rays and hot plasma from the solar wind. The temperature of the interplanetary medium is approximately 10,000 K, and its density is very low at about 5 particles per cubic centimeter in the vicinity of the Earth; it decreases with increasing distance from the sun, in proportion with the inverse square of the distance. The density is variable, and may be affected by magnetic fields and ev ...

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Interplanetary medium, Interplanetary medium - Composition and physical characteristics, Interplanetary medium - Extent of the interplanetary medium, Interplanetary medium - Interaction with planets, Interplanetary medium - Observable phenomena of the interplanetary medium, Interplanetary medium - History

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Excitable media can be modelled using both partial differential equations and cellular automata. Excitable medium - With cellular automata. Cellular automata provide a simple model to aid the understanding of excitable media. Each cell of the automaton is made to represent some section of the medium (for example, a patch of trees in a forest, or stress in heart tissue). Each cell can be in one of the three following states: Quiescent or excitable -- the cell is unexcited, and can ...

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Excitable medium, Excitable medium - Modelling excitable media, Excitable medium - With cellular automata, Excitable medium - Geometries of waves, Excitable medium - One-dimensional waves, Excitable medium - Two-dimensional waves

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The web has, at least potentially, several advantages over the conventional form of publishing. It has removed many of the traditional barriers that prevent an independent comics artist from having his work published. The restrictions of the traditional newspaper or magazine format are lifted, though for functional reasons most webcomics still adhere to them. Some artists have taken advantage of the web's unique abilities. Scott McCloud, one of the first advocates of webcomics, has pioneered the idea of the infinite canvas, whe ...

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Webcomic, Webcomic - Medium, Webcomic - History, Webcomic - Community, Webcomic - Business, Webcomic - Webcomic collectives and companies

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In the (likely) case the Medium Mark D wouldn't be ready for mass production in 1919 the Tank Corps hoped to receive no less than 6000 Medium C's that year, a third of which of a "Male" version with a long six-pounder gun in the front of the superstructure. Though drawings were prepared nothing would come of this. When the war ended all orders were cancelled with only 36 vehicles nearly finished. These were completed together with 14 others built from preproduced parts for a total production of fifty. General J.F.C. Fuller considered switchi ...

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Medium Mark C, Medium Mark C - Development, Medium Mark C - Description, Medium Mark C - Operational History

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Comics artists will generally sketch a drawing in pencil before going over the drawing again in ink, using either a pen or a brush. Artists will also make use of a lightbox when creating the final image in ink. Some artists, Brian Bolland being a notable example41, are now using digital means to create artwork, with the published work being the first physical appearance of the artwork. By many definitions (including McCloud's, above) the definition of comics e ...

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Comics, Comics - Controversy regarding the terminology, Comics - History, Comics - 15th–18th centuries, Comics - The 19th century, Comics - The 20th century, Comics - Artistic medium, Comics - Art styles, Comics - The language, Comics - Forms within comics, Comics - Cartoon, Comics - Comic strip, Comics - Comic book, Comics - Webcomic, Comics - Instructional comics, Comics - Storyboard, Comics - Minicomic, Comics - The creation of comics, Comics - Comic book creation, Comics - Comic strip creation, Comics - Cartoon creation, Comics - Tools of the trade, Comics - Comics awards, Comics - United States, Comics - United Kingdom, Comics - Canada, Comics - France, Comics - Germany, Comics - Italy, Comics - Spain, Comics - Sweden, Comics - Japan, Comics - Regional categories, Comics - Comics movements, Comics - Miscellaneous, Comics - Lists, Comics - Bibliography, Comics - Notes

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Comics artists will generally sketch a drawing in pencil before going over the drawing again in ink, using either a dip pen or a brush. Artists will also make use of a lightbox when creating the final image in ink. Some artists, Brian Bolland being a notable example41, are now using digital means to create artwork, with the published work being the first physical appearance of the artwork. By many definitions (including McCloud's, above) the definition of comics e ...

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Comics, Comics - Controversy regarding the terminology, Comics - History, Comics - 15th–18th centuries, Comics - The 19th century, Comics - The 20th century, Comics - Artistic medium, Comics - Art styles, Comics - The language, Comics - Forms within comics, Comics - Cartoon, Comics - Comic strip, Comics - Comic book, Comics - Webcomic, Comics - Instructional comics, Comics - Storyboard, Comics - Minicomic, Comics - The creation of comics, Comics - Comic book creation, Comics - Comic strip creation, Comics - Cartoon creation, Comics - Tools of the trade, Comics - Computer generated comics, Comics - Comics awards, Comics - United States, Comics - United Kingdom, Comics - Canada, Comics - France, Comics - Germany, Comics - Italy, Comics - Spain, Comics - Sweden, Comics - Japan, Comics - Regional categories, Comics - Comics movements, Comics - Miscellaneous, Comics - Lists, Comics - Bibliography, Comics - Notes

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The objectives of the ECMWF are: Development of numerical methods for medium-range weather forecasting Preparation of medium-range weather forecasts for distribution to the member states Scientific and technical research directed to the improvement of these forecasts Collection and storage of appropriate meteorological data. ...

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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - Objectives, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - Work and Projects, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - Members

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Each Christian religious sect has its own rules defining what is an appropriate way to represent the life and times of Jesus. Differences between mediums and style can typically be attributed to various interpretations of the Bible (the leading christian religious text) and local cultural influences. Because the art form is so vast, the current list of appropriate mediums can be found in the Christian Art Mediums. The following is an accumulation of those mediums: Architecture: Cathedral or Church Fresco Iconography or Icon PaintingsSee also:

Christian art, Christian art - History, Christian art - Art Mediums, Christian art - Symbolism

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During the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth century, the practice of lithography was predominantly restricted to cheap reproductions of paintings and drawings. However, around 1825 the French artists Ingres, Géricault, and Delacroix embraced the process as a way to avoid the problems inherent in wood-block and copper engraving, namely, the near necessity of middlemen like draughtsmen (who transferred the image to the wood or copper plate) and engravers (who carved the image out of the plate). The advantage to lithography (for an ar ...

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Lithography, Lithography - Printing, Lithography - The principle, Lithography - The early process, Lithography - The modern process, Lithography - Semiconductor lithography, Lithography - Lithography as an artistic medium

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During the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth century, the practice of lithography was predominantly restricted to cheap reproductions of paintings and drawings. However, around 1825 the French artists Ingres, Géricault, and Delacroix embraced the process as a way to avoid the problems inherent in wood-block and copper engraving, namely, the near necessity of middlemen like draughtsmen (who transferred the image to the wood or copper plate) and engravers (who carved the image out of the plate). The advantage to lithography (for an ar ...

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Lithography, Lithography - Printing, Lithography - The principle, Lithography - The chemical process, Lithography - The early process, Lithography - The modern process, Lithography - Semiconductor lithography, Lithography - Lithography as an artistic medium

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The ECMWF has been producing operational medium-range weather forecasts since 1979-08-01. It has run two "re-analysis" projects, the first ECMWF re-analysis (ERA-15) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994. The ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from 1957. ...

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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - Objectives, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - Work and Projects, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - Members

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Islamic art throughout history has been mainly abstract and decorative, portraying geometric, floral, Arabesque, and calligraphic designs. Unlike the strong tradition of portraying the human figure in Christian art, Islamic art does not include depictions of human beings. The lack of portraiture is due to the fact that early Islam forbade the painting of human beings, including the Prophet, as Muslims believe this tempts followers of the Prophet to idolatry. This prohibition against human beings or icons is called aniconism. Over the past tw ...

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Islamic art, Islamic art - Mediums of Islamic art, Islamic art - Caligraphy, Islamic art - The study of Islamic art

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Islamic art throughout history has been mainly abstract and decorative, portraying geometric, floral, Arabesque, and calligraphic designs. Unlike the strong tradition of portraying the human figure in Christian art, Islamic art does not include depictions of human beings. The lack of portraiture is due to the fact that early Islam forbade the painting of human beings, including the Prophet, as Muslims believe this tempts followers of the Prophet to idolatry. This prohibition against human beings or icons is called aniconism. Over the past tw ...

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Islamic art, Islamic art - Mediums of Islamic art, Islamic art - Calligraphy, Islamic art - The study of Islamic art

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