Crossword clues for telephoto
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
telephoto \telephoto\ n.
a photograph taken using a telephoto lens.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also tele-photo, 1898, shortened form of telephotographic (1892), in reference to lenses introduced at that time to increase the magnification of photographs taken by a camera, from tele- + photographic.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to a lens system used to produce an enlarged image of a distant object. n. A photograph taken through a telephoto lens.
WordNet
n. a photograph made with a telephoto lens [syn: telephotograph]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "telephoto".
They poked cameras equipped with cobra-like telephoto lenses over the hoods of their vehicles.
If we could get to the end of it, we just might get ourselves into position for a telephoto shot of the power plant.
I carefully laid the big telephoto lenses I had been carrying on a handy rock and slumped down on another to catch my breath.
He set to screwing a two-foot long telephoto zoom lens to the body of his camera.
How had they managed to make a telephoto image of a nuthatch--a photo that Nathan himself had taken!
I switched from the shoulder-stock telephoto to the big tripod job, because this was the best part of it.
So they found out all these exciting things about me, like: I drove an old pickup truck with cages in the back for my bird dogs, or I wore a Wal-Mart ball cap, or I got my hair cut at the barbershop just off the town squaresomebody with a telephoto lens even snuck up and took a picture of me in the barber chair, and it was in newspapers all over the country.
As he looked through the telephoto lens of the viewfinder, he moved the camera from the portico, sweeping across the facade of the cathedral, then panning across the crowd of tourists and pilgrims, as if capturing the entire scene on video, an amateur cinematographer.
We kept the drapes closed at the apartment for fear of telephoto lenses.
Pentax and telephoto lens on its tripod and snapping and developing shots of the street.
Through the telephoto lens I snatched his image, learned him: balding, grey-haired, plain features, in nondescript thrift-shop jacket and pants, dull brown shoes.
The bank also contained television, telephoto and teletype connections back to Fat Boy for printout of verbal and visual data, together with local storage banks for short-term hold and cross-reference.
He returned to his pristine desk and picked up the telephoto of Hannah Stern.
They listened on the monitor when Vulpes entered his room, and Morris, using a 500mm telephoto lens, videotaped him through the open window of the room.
He squinted, and his vision zoomed in on the spot like a telephoto lens.