telephoto
noun
plural telephotos
1
: a telephoto lens
2
: a photograph taken with a camera having a telephoto lens
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Matching the outgoing phone, the new Edge has a 10MP telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom and up to 30x digital zoom.
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Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 2 June 2026
The 5x telephoto gives you a very pleasing compression and doubles as a macro shooter (right image in the above collage).
—Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
This unique visibility may have played a role in this spectacular image, which was captured by Petr Horálek, a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador, using a camera and a wide-aperture telephoto lens on the mountain Cerro Pachón in Chile.
—Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2026
This external lens mounts to the 3x telephoto camera module and uses a 16-element optical design for the equivalent of 300-mm reach, enabling up to 13x optical zoom and improved results at 30x and beyond.
—New Atlas, 27 Apr. 2026
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Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 2 June 2026
The 5x telephoto gives you a very pleasing compression and doubles as a macro shooter (right image in the above collage).
—Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
This unique visibility may have played a role in this spectacular image, which was captured by Petr Horálek, a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador, using a camera and a wide-aperture telephoto lens on the mountain Cerro Pachón in Chile.
—Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2026
This external lens mounts to the 3x telephoto camera module and uses a 16-element optical design for the equivalent of 300-mm reach, enabling up to 13x optical zoom and improved results at 30x and beyond.
—New Atlas, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Telephoto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephoto. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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