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▪ I. teleˈphoto, a. and n.1
[Abbrev. of telephotographic a.2, etc.: cf. photo 2.]
A. adj. = telephotographic a.2
1898Westm. Gaz. 26 Jan. 5/3 By means of a tele-photo lens..Mr. Lodge has secured many photographic records of great value to the ornithologist. 1900H. M. Wilson Topographic Surv. xli. 869 An attachment called a telephoto combination, which consists in the addition of a negative or magnifying element in the rear of the combination proper. This produces larger images of distant objects. 1913Kipling Diversity of Creatures (1917) 290 J'ever see a bird's eye telephoto-survey of England for military purposes? 1920H. E. Ives Airplane Photography xxxi. 383 The telephoto lenses used for spotting would be of long equivalent focus..but of handy size. 1947A. Ransome Great Northern? i. 17 He would have..a camera with a telephoto lens to take photographs of birds without having to come near enough to disturb them. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) ii. xxi. 230 The press is now not only a telephoto mosaic of the human community hour by hour, but its technology is also a mosaic of all the technologies of the community. 1977J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 119 Some telephoto converters are designed to fit between lens and camera.
B. n.
1. A telephoto lens or camera.
1904L. W. Brownell Photogr. for Sportsman Naturalist v. 72 It is always well, in work with the telephoto, to presuppose that your negative is under⁓exposed. 1931O. G. Pike Nature Photogr. iii. 16 A telephoto lens is..a most important part of the nature photographer's equipment... A modern telephoto is a very great advance on those used thirty years ago. 1975Byfield & Tedeschi Solemn High Murder (1976) v. 86, I used a time exposure..with a 135 mm telephoto. They were long exposures.
2. = telephotograph n.2 rare.
1974J. Irving 158-Pound Marriage i. 11, I see the close-ups of the shelling of Reims. The telephoto is still unclear.
▪ II. telephoto n.2
Also U.S. Tele-.
[Abbrev. of telephotograph n.1 or one of its derivatives.]
Name for a system of telephotographic transmission.
A proprietary term in the U.S.
1925Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 3 Feb. 46/1 Telephoto... Photographs. Ibid. 7 Apr. 27/2 Telephoto... Machines and apparatus for distance transmission of photographs electrically. 1931Daily Express 13 Oct. 1/6 Picture by telephoto. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxvi. 264 Photographs of finger-prints are greatly reduced in size and are flashed across the sea by the telephoto process to European countries. |