transparency

n., pl., -cies.

1. A transparent object, especially a photographic slide that is viewed by light shining through it from behind or by projection.
2. also trans·par·ence (-pâr'əns, -păr'-) The quality or state of being transparent.

The extent to which investors have ready access to any required financial information about a company such as price levels, market depth and audited financial reports. Classically defined as when "much is known by many", transparency is one of the silent prerequisites of any free and efficient market.

When transparency relates to information flow from the company to investors, it is also known as "full disclosure".

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There are dozens of federal regulations in place to ensure transparency in our markets. Companies also have a strong motivation to provide disclosure, as transparency is generally rewarded through the stock's performance.

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In financial reporting, ease of understanding, made possible by the full, clear, and timely disclosure of relevant information. In securities transactions, price transparency means access to information concerning the Depth of the Market that would enable detection of fraud or manipulation.

Advertising: advertising piece covered with a sticky, gelatinous substance that may be pasted onto a window for display.

Photography: positive color photographic image on a sheet of film or glass that represents the actual color values of the original subject.

Transparencies (or diapositives) have up to five advantages over prints of katapositives. All can be projected for viewing by a large audience, and those produced as ‘camera originals’ are in most cases both cheaper and more ‘objective’ than prints. They can also be quicker to produce, and are sharper because they are ‘first-generation’ images.

They are cheaper (for a given level of quality) because no additional processes are required beyond developing the film; and more ‘objective’ (i.e. with less scope for individual interpretation) because they are processed according to a standardized regime which allows little or no adjustment.

On the other hand, there is almost no exposure latitude, and they are unique. Whereas a negative can normally be used to make good or excellent prints despite overexposure (the latitude for underexposure is much smaller), exposure variations of half a stop can have considerable impact in transparencies. Also, whereas a lost print can be remade from a negative, a lost camera-original transparency is lost for ever.

Speed, economy, quality, and ‘what you see is what you get’ make the transparency supreme in some areas such as advertising, while the latitude of colour print materials gives negatives the edge in others such as wedding photography and, increasingly, photojournalism, where negative films are often scanned directly without ever being conventionally printed. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, amateur use of slide films declined rapidly in the face of constantly improving (and ever cheaper) prints, together with the opportunity of scanning directly from negatives.

The arcane Lippmann interference process (1891) promises objective colour recording, forming all colours in direct proportion to the wavelength of the image-forming light, but most processes are subjective: the colours of the transparency look like the colours of the original, but are formed by dyes which do not reproduce the actual wavelengths.

Kodachrome (1935) was the first modern subtractive integral tripack, so named because all three of the layers required to give the final image are coated one atop the other on the film base. Almost all subsequent integral tripacks have, however, differed from Kodachrome by being ‘substantive’, with dye precursors incorporated in the emulsion layers; Kodachrome is ‘non-substantive’ because the couplers are added during processing, and the film is effectively black-and-white until it is processed.

Almost all modern transparency films are subtractive: white light is filtered by the transparency so that only a representation of the original colours is transmitted. Many older processes, together with Polaroid transparency films, were additive: the image is made up of numerous tiny dots of red, green, and blue, in much the same way as a television image. Early additive processes included Lumière autochrome (1907); Finlaycolor (1908); Omnicolor (1910), later commercialized as Dufaycolor; and lenticular colour processes from both Agfa and Kodak, used in conjunction with wide-aperture lenses and striped filters, and based on patents dating to 1908. Subtractive images are much brighter than additive, and sharper.

— Roger W. Hicks

See also Colour Reproduction Principles; Photographic Processes, Colour.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - gennemsigtighed, transparent, tydelighed, lysbillede, diapositiv

Nederlands (Dutch)
negatief (van foto), doorzichtigheid, begrijpelijkheid (politiek etc.)

Français (French)
n. - (gén, fig) transparence, (Phot) diapositive, transparent

Deutsch (German)
n. - Durchsichtigkeit, Dia

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διαφάνεια, σλάιντ

Italiano (Italian)
trasparenza, trasparente, diapositiva

Português (Portuguese)
n. - claridade (f), transparência (f), limpidez (f)

Русский (Russian)
прозрачность, (фото) черно-белый или цветной диапозитив, транспарант, плакат из ткани

Español (Spanish)
n. - transparencia, diapositiva

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - genomsynlighet, transparang, diapositiv, diabild, ljusbild

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
透明, 透明物, 透明度

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 透明, 透明物, 透明度

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 투명, 간명, 투명 무늬

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 透明, 透明度, 透明画, 透明陽画, 閣下, 透かし, 浮模様, 透過性, 透明性

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شئ شفاف, الشفافيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שקיפות, שקופית על זכוכית, שקף‬

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