Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process or technique of photographing distant objects, using a telephoto lens on a camera.
- noun The technique or process of transmitting charts, pictures, and photographs over a distance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of photographing distant objects by means of telescopic lenses and a camera specially designed for the purpose. See
telephote , 2, and telephotographic lens. - noun The art (not yet attained) of producing a photograph of an object distant and invisible from the camera, by means of electrical connections with a suitable apparatus situated near the object.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a
telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate. - noun Art or process of electrically transmitting and reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance, especially by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy.
- noun Less properly, phototelegraphy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun photography
Photography of distant subjects using atelephoto lens - noun The
transmission ofimages over adistance , especially byfacsimile
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun photography using a telephoto lens
- noun transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance
Etymologies
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Examples
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And, in each room of Exposed, we are reminded how dominant the camera has become, whether it is documenting the trauma of life in Larry Clark's Untitled or the limits of telephotography in Trevor Paglen's Chemical and Biological Weapons Proving Ground/Dugway, UT/Distance ~42 miles/10: 51 a.m.
Julie Henson: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 at SFMoMA Julie Henson 2010
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And, in each room of Exposed, we are reminded how dominant the camera has become, whether it is documenting the trauma of life in Larry Clark's Untitled or the limits of telephotography in Trevor Paglen's Chemical and Biological Weapons Proving Ground/Dugway, UT/Distance ~42 miles/10: 51 a.m.
Julie Henson: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 at SFMoMA Julie Henson 2010
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And, in each room of Exposed, we are reminded how dominant the camera has become, whether it is documenting the trauma of life in Larry Clark's Untitled or the limits of telephotography in Trevor Paglen's Chemical and Biological Weapons Proving Ground/Dugway, UT/Distance ~42 miles/10: 51 a.m.
Julie Henson: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 at SFMoMA Julie Henson 2010
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And, in each room of Exposed, we are reminded how dominant the camera has become, whether it is documenting the trauma of life in Larry Clark's Untitled or the limits of telephotography in Trevor Paglen's Chemical and Biological Weapons Proving Ground/Dugway, UT/Distance ~42 miles/10: 51 a.m.
Julie Henson: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 at SFMoMA Julie Henson 2010
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And, in each room of Exposed, we are reminded how dominant the camera has become, whether it is documenting the trauma of life in Larry Clark's Untitled or the limits of telephotography in Trevor Paglen's Chemical and Biological Weapons Proving Ground/Dugway, UT/Distance ~42 miles/10:51 a.m., 2006.
Julie Henson: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 at SFMoMA Julie Henson 2010
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How much important to have USM, IS in telephotography?
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Exposed, we are reminded how dominant the camera has become, whether it is documenting the trauma of life in Larry Clark's limits of telephotography in Trevor Paglen's Chemical and Biological Weapons Proving
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Julie Henson 2010
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Don't go for a camera with longer than 5x to 6x optical zoom unless you plan doing a lot of telephotography!
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