telephoto

[tel-uh-foh-toh]

noting or pertaining to telephotography.

Origin of telephoto

1890–95; short for telephotographic; see telephotograph, -ic

[tel-uh-foh-toh]

a brand of apparatus for electrical transmission of photographs.

a photograph transmitted by this apparatus.

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Each time, the 1920s version of paparazzi found him and trained their telephoto lenses on his barracks.
The Last Hero
Brad Gooch
November 18, 2010
In this era of the telephoto lens, she can have no bad hair days for the rest of her life.
Kate's Royal Prison
Andrew Roberts
November 17, 2010

Thaneford, with his telephoto lens, sees that Graeme is dozing in his chair.
In Jeopardy
Van Tassel Sutphen
I got the telephoto camera out of the hamper, checked it, and aimed it.
Four-Day Planet
Henry Beam Piper
I am sorry I did not have a telephoto lens, for I could have secured a fairly good picture of the group.
Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland
William S. Thomas
This in turn I have displaced with a Dallmeyer telephoto lens, mounted in aluminum, which I consider a marvelous instrument.
American Big-Game Hunting
Various
A telephoto attachment increases the photographer's power of rendering distant details on a large scale.
How to Observe in Archaeology
Various

Word Origin and History for telephoto

adj.

1898, shortened form of telephotographic (1892), from tele- + photographic.