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Photography vs Photostat - What's the difference?

photography | photostat |

As nouns the difference between photography and photostat

is that photography is the art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart while photostat is (dated) a photocopy, especially one made by a (photostat machine).

As a verb photostat is

to make such a photocopy.

photography

English

(wikipedia photography)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
  • The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.

    • Derived terms

    * astrophotography * digital photography * flash photography * glamour photography * telephotography

    Related terms

    * photographer * photographic * phonography

    photostat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A photocopy, especially one made by a (Photostat machine)
  • positive (black on white) or negative (white on black) reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which uses photographic paper instead of a transparent negative, and uses a prism to render the paper negative readable instead of reversed.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make such a photocopy.
  • * 2008 , Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself
    • as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.