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Put out about mistake getting such lengthy exposure (4-5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

time-lapse

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'such lengthy exposure' is the definition.
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'put out about mistake' is the wordplay.
'put out' becomes 'emit' (I've seen this before).
'about' is a reversal indicator.
'mistake' becomes 'lapse' (lapse is a kind of mistake).
'emit' reversed gives 'time'.
'time'+'lapse'='TIME-LAPSE'

'getting' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for time-lapse that I've seen before include "Photography technique" , "Kind of cinematic technique for showing a slow process at an accelerated pace" , "Photographic technique to show very slow processes in motion" .)

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