telephoto
adjective
noting or pertaining to telephotography.
telephoto
1 American
[tel-uh-foh-toh]
/ ˈtɛl əˌfoʊ toʊ /
adjective
Telephoto
2
American
[tel-uh-foh-toh]
/ ˈtɛl əˌfoʊ toʊ /
Trademark.
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a brand of apparatus for electrical transmission of photographs.
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a photograph transmitted by this apparatus.
Etymology
Origin of telephoto
1890–95; short for telephotographic; see telephotograph, -ic
Vocabulary lists containing telephoto
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The selfie camera got bumped up to 18 megapixels and the rear telephoto camera increased to 48 megapixels, with 8X zoom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Indonesian villager Octavius wades through the forest in rubber boots and tattered joggers, ears pricked, eyes peeled, a telephoto lens on his phone primed to capture orangutans, monkeys or birds.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Armed with binoculars and a telephoto camera, they watch the cobalt waters for one of its great treasures - pygmy blue whales.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
Sporting a telephoto lens with her camera, Philbin now can identify individual whales from their fins and tails and is second to Muul in sorting sighting tips and sending alerts.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
I checked the woods for telephoto lens flare and didn’t see any.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
Main: 48-megapixels f/1.8 with OIS Ultrawide: 50-megapixel f/2.2 Telephoto: 8-megapixel f/2.4 with OIS Front: 32-megapixel, fixed focus This isn’t exactly the same camera system as last year, and there are some software-based improvements.
From The Verge ● Apr. 5, 2022
The researchers found Dragonfly-2 using the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, an instrument designed to observe large and extremely faint objects in the night sky.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 22, 2021
They were up on the prison towers shooting through the cross hairs of a rifle scope, using it as a Telephoto lens.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
Meanwhile, Moment’s signature Wide 18mm lens and Telephoto 58mm lens remain a favorite of reviewers across the internet.
From The Verge ● Jan. 28, 2020
Olear finally consented to speak a few words for the Telephoto News Co.
From Astounding Stories, June, 1931 by Various
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