How to Use telephoto in a Sentence

telephoto

noun
Definition of telephotonext
Synonyms for telephotonext
  • The Max maxes out the telephoto at 65mm, which is close to the 70mm that pros use to get tighter.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The Pro upgrade used to be about the third camera with the telephoto lens.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Again, the Plus will lack a third telephoto lens on the back, which takes up space inside the phone.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 July 2022
  • As for the camera bump, the telephoto camera is only one of the three lenses on the back of the iPhone.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Dec. 2022
  • As with the iPhone 12, that lack of a telephoto lens is a real bummer.
    — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Pick a telephoto lens to make the moon as big as possible in your shot, and take your shot.
    — Jared Vincenti, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Then there’s the 3X option, which is the true telephoto camera.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Beyond the fences the feds watched us through telephoto lenses.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2022
  • However, the iPhone 13 Pro does add the telephoto lens.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The telephoto lens would flat-out refuse to focus on anything close.
    — José Adorno, BGR, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Simone Biles on the uneven bars, shot with a telephoto lens.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • As the more advanced phone, the OnePlus 8 Pro has a 120Hz display and a telephoto camera.
    — Cnet, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Use a 58-mm telephoto to get even closer to your subject.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The telephoto lens is still restricted to the Pro models.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 2 June 2022
  • The Pixel 5 also dumps the telephoto lens for an ultra-wide one.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 30 Sep. 2020
  • However, the Pro goes one more step up with a third camera: a telephoto.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • On the cliff with Prasenjeet and me were tourists from around the world, most hunched over expensive telephoto lenses.
    — Peter Gwin, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
  • The telephoto lens now reaches even longer to give a true 2.5x optical zoom.
    — Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The rear-view is a telephoto lens designed to show you a view past your vehicle cabin and out the back window.
    — Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, used its telephoto lens to produce the panorama and the process took six and a half hours over the course of four days to capture the images.
    — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2020
  • And, like last year’s Pros, the 12 Pro has a triple camera system—a telephoto, a wide and an ultrawide.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
  • It had been taken through a window with a telephoto lens from the roof of a neighboring building.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Like in the past, the two Pro models will likely get a triple camera system, adding a telephoto camera.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 19 July 2021
  • Scott, solidly built, in a gray suit and purple tie, holding a camera with a telephoto lens.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • There is no night mode, nor are there ultra-wide or telephoto lenses.
    — Brandon Russell, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The 9 Pro, with an optical zoom of just 3.3X, doesn't have a great telephoto lens, however.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Both models get new sensors across the camera array, though the iPhone 15 Pro Max adds a telephoto camera that can zoom in up to 5x.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Google camera block has two cameras: a 12MP main camera and a 16MP telephoto.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The telephoto camera on the phones will be 10 megapixels, with 3x optical zoom.
    — Christian De Looper, BGR, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The dedicated telephoto lenses separate the Pro and the Pro Max.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 13 Sep. 2023

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