telephoto lens

noun

: a lens for a camera that makes things that are far away appear to be closer

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Some speculate that Owsley acid, smuggled from the Bay Area to Britain in a telephoto lens case, suffused the Beatles’ cartoonishly psychedelic Magical Mystery Tour movie. John Semley, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025 This is a telephoto lens image from home (latitude 51º N) on the morning of April 11, with the comet as a tiny and dim green dot in the Square of Pegasus. Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025 Here are the report’s key findings: Pixel 10 Pro: will include the best sensors for superior all-round image quality. Pixel 10: tipped to gain a telephoto lens, but with lower-quality sensors all round. Paul Monckton, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025 The telephoto lens will apparently have a special design: Samsung is also expected to use its new ALoP (All Lenses on Prism) design for the 3.5X telephoto lens, which arranges the lenses in front of the prism rather than behind it. Jay Peters, The Verge, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for telephoto lens

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“Telephoto lens.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephoto%20lens. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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