telephoto

¹

[ tel-uh-foh-toh ]

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to telephotography.

Telephoto

²

[ tel-uh-foh-toh ]

Trademark.

1. a brand of apparatus for electrical transmission of photographs.
2. a photograph transmitted by this apparatus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of telephoto¹

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

Example Sentences

Affleck presses a kiss to Lopez’s famous butt, and paparazzi aim telephoto lenses in their direction.

From Vox

A normal triple-camera layout would include a main "wide-angle" camera, a telephoto camera, and an ultra-wide-angle camera—that's probably a safe assumption here.

From Ars Technica

For example, if you zoom to 8x, the phone will merge final shots from both of its 10-megapixel telephoto lenses.

From Washington Post

It has a super-wide, the main wide-angle, and the telephoto.

From Popular-Science

You get the 12-megapixel wide camera and the ultra-wide camera without the telephoto.

From Popular-Science

Each time, the 1920s version of paparazzi found him and trained their telephoto lenses on his barracks.

From The Daily Beast

In this era of the telephoto lens, she can have no bad hair days for the rest of her life.

From The Daily Beast

This in turn I have displaced with a Dallmeyer telephoto lens, mounted in aluminum, which I consider a marvelous instrument.

From Project Gutenberg

A telephoto attachment increases the photographer's power of rendering distant details on a large scale.

From Project Gutenberg

Olear finally consented to speak a few words for the Telephoto News Co.

From Project Gutenberg

Other columns of the paper contained regular wire news stories and telephoto pictures.

From Project Gutenberg

The telephoto lens is a great help in taking the more timid subjects.

From Project Gutenberg