telephoto
adjective
noting or pertaining to telephotography.
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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
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It’s hard to imagine a riskier trek, but he managed to pull it off, traveling through cities and towns with a telephoto lens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
A telephoto lens offers higher resolution, while a wide-angle lens allows a larger field of view.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025
But they set aside for me this new camera she owned with a telephoto lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
If the rumor mill pans out, this year’s iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max may feature a periscope-style telephoto lens that will improve the quality of photos taken from far distances.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
Squinting through my camera’s telephoto lens at the upper Southeast Ridge, I was surprised to see four antlike figures moving almost imperceptibly toward the South Summit.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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
Telephoto lenses are folded into periscopes that run along the lengths of the phone for even longer zooms.
From The Verge ● Sep. 14, 2021
Undeterred, he hired a photographer to shoot a show with a Telephoto lens from a rooftop across the street.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2015
Telephoto view from near Electron, 20 miles, showing vast summit plateau left when the Mountain blew its head off.
From The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' by Williams, John H. (John Harvey)
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