: a lens for a camera that makes things that are far away appear to be closer
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When planning your visit, think about packing binoculars or a camera with a telephoto lens.—Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 17 June 2026 Using a drone and a telephoto lens, Felix Belloin’s winning image in the Wildlife category captured a polar bear tucked into a crack in the ice, asleep.—Sam Peters, CNN Money, 29 May 2026 Visitors had to make their way down a narrow private drive that wound through 650 acres of woods and fields to find the viscount’s villa, but that didn’t stop an enterprising female photographer from taking the photos from a public road 1,500 feet away using a telephoto lens.—Christopher Andersen, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2026 But Horálek captured this image with just a camera and telephoto lens.—Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for telephoto lens