One solution may be the FEL ( flash exposure lock ) offered on some more expensive cameras, which allows the photographer to fire the measuring flash at some earlier time, long ( many seconds ) before taking the real picture.

He was concerned with the expensive tools for measuring parts for the Remington rifles then in production under license at Carl Gustaf.

But, as every normal laboratory, this planet constantly desires for expensive apparatus and measuring devices ( e. g. ulmotrons ) that can only be produced on Earth.

Although Babbage's design was technically feasible, no one had built a mechanical device to such exacting standards before, so the engine proved to be much more expensive than anticipated.

* Historically, valve amplifiers often used a class-A power amplifier simply because valves are large and expensive ; many class-A designs use only a single device.

There is even a device available that will detect changes in jacket thickness and internal voids in jacketed rifle bullets, though its high cost makes it prohibitively expensive for all but the most dedicated shooters.

Some people prefer injections because they are less expensive than pumps and do not require the wearing of a continually attached device.

The best device for defeating Macrovision is a Time Base Corrector ( TBC ), although they are more expensive than the simpler video stabilizers.

He built a device based on an internal combustion engine to simulate gunfire, which was safer and less expensive than firing blanks.

Their built-in operating systems were designed in an era when floppy disk drives were very expensive and not expected to be used by most users, so the standard storage device on most was a tape drive using standard compact cassettes.

The Lindisfarne Gospels are impeccably designed, and as Backhouse points out vellum would have been too expensive for ‘ practice runs ’ for the pages, and so “ preliminary designs ” may have been done on a wax tablet ( a device that is hollowed out wood or bone with a layer of wax ).

There was little demand for the expensive device, but Patterson believed the product would sell once shopkeepers understood it would drastically decrease theft by salesclerks.

The first attempt at a handheld game console with touchscreen controls was Sega's intended successor to the Game Gear, though the device was ultimately shelved and never released due to the expensive cost of touchscreen technology in the early 1990s.

The lower limit of the device size is determined by anti-proton handling issues and fission reaction requirements, but the concept appears to be feasible using technology and infrastructure likely to be made available during the second half of the 21st century, unlike either the Project Orion-type propulsion system, which requires large numbers of nuclear explosive charges, or the various anti-matter drives, which require impossibly expensive amounts of antimatter, antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion has technically sweet intrinsic advantages.

The difficulties with implosion centered on the problem of making the chemical explosives deliver a perfectly uniform shock wave upon the plutonium sphere — if it were even slightly asymmetric, the weapon would fizzle ( which would be expensive, messy, and not a very effective military device ).

An operator sat in front of a device that vaguely resembles today's PC, except the monitor was small, expensive ( US $ 2, 000 ), low-resolution ( 24x80 ) and the available colors were green and bright green.

An operator basically sat in front of this device that vaguely resembled today's PC, except the monitor was smaller, the device was more expensive ( US $ 2, 000 ), it featured a text-only ( 24 × 80 ) interface and the available colors for the screen were only green and bright green, although a seven-color IBM Color Monitors later became available.

Of the two surviving systems, Pro Tools still requires some proprietary hardware ( either a low cost portable device such as the " Mbox " or the more expensive multichannel A / D, D / A converters for more professional high end applications ), while Nuendo ( a successor to Cubase ) is of the " host based " variety.

The main disadvantage of the focal-plane shutter is that a durable and reliable one is a complex ( and often expensive ) device.

Building such a device was within the state of the art, but would be expensive, approximately $ 1 billion.

The laser printer, though more expensive than the inkjet, is another affordable output device available today.

It was significantly smaller, less expensive, and lighter but offered a much less responsive " twist " LCD and a less ergonomic pointing device.

This sometimes accounts for the most expensive part of the sensor device, however it is possible to generate a user friendly display that includes transducer and sensitive element ( see Holographic Sensor ).

Hosaka is also a computer brand name "... next year's most expensive Hosaka computer ...." The brand name is frequently used interchangeably to indicate the company and the device, much the way a modern brand such as Dell or Nintendo might be used as a " a Dell " or " a Nintendo " to indicate a particular object manufactured by one of those companies.

Another procedure using an interspinous distraction device known as X-STOP was less effective and more expensive when more than one spinal level is repaired.

An early attempt at a handheld game console with touchscreen controls was Sega's intended successor to the Game Gear, though the device was ultimately shelved and never released due to the expensive cost of touchscreen technology in the early 1990s.

soyaburgers have replaced meat, and wood has become so precious that it is saved for expensive jewelry ; ;

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Actual mileage allowances are well-administered and not unduly expensive for the state.

And some, which are suitable for tree growing and for other National Forest purposes, are unmanaged or in need of expensive rehabilitation, and are contributing nothing to the economy ; ;

Since practical washing procedures are both lengthy and expensive, a number of laboratory tests have been developed for the numerical evaluation of detergents.

A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.

Radiosterilization ( at 3 Mrad ) is more expensive than canning, particularly for the cesium-137 source.

You will come to Alemagna, a delightful, though moderately expensive restaurant, which is particularly noted for its exceptional selection of ice creams and patisseries.

In all of this extensive and expensive effort, the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author.

The wardrobe for a foreign bomb is a little expensive.

Well, Jerebohm and his wife Pinkie have reached the stage of affluence that stirs a longing for the more atrociously expensive rustic simplicities.

`` They're an expensive English shoe for walking around a lot.

He suddenly realized when he walked into his own pretty darned expensive house that he needed the Martini Anne had waiting for him.

However, the rail link between Abkhazia and Georgia proper has been closed for a number of years, forcing Armenia to receive rail cars laden with cargo only through the relatively expensive rail-ferry services operating between Georgian and other Black Sea ports.

Minimization of punctuation in typewritten material became economically desirable in the 1960s and 1970s for the many users of carbon-film ribbons, since a period or comma consumed the same length of non-reusable expensive ribbon as did a capital letter.

This has led many more to choose Acapulco, in spite of the fact that the flight is longer and more expensive than to Cancun for many travelers.

Due to the length of these routes and the small number of airlines flying to the islands, fares have traditionally been relatively expensive, although cheaper for locals than visitors.

However, often it is most advantageous for the player selecting to choose to let the more expensive chains remain on the board ( and trade in their stock of the less expensive chain at the 2-to-1 ratio described below ).

At the time it was being developed, a full, reliable connection-oriented protocol like TCP was considered to be too expensive to implement for most of the intended uses of AppleTalk.

Additionally, the hardware for implementing the service adaptation for IP packets is expensive at very high speeds.

In practice arbitration is generally used as a substitute for judicial systems, particularly when the judicial processes are viewed as too slow, expensive or biased.

* Scholastic Acrylics use less expensive pigments as well as dyes in formulations that are safe for younger artists, and economical for classroom use.