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Recent Examples of telephoto
There’s a 50-megapixel main camera, an ultrawide, and a 3x telephoto, with a familiar 12-megapixel selfie shooter on the front.
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Dominic Preston, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025
Matte black and matte white Camera iPhone 16: Two rear camera lenses, 48-megapixel (wide) and 12-megapixel (ultrawide) with 2x telephoto zoom and 12-megapixel front-facing camera.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
The best camera phones offer a primary wide camera, an ultrawide, and a telephoto zoom (usually at 5X zoom).
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, runway photography will also be taken on iPhones, as will close-ups using the telephoto capabilities.
—Lily Templeton, WWD, 19 Jan. 2025
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Dominic Preston, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025
Matte black and matte white Camera iPhone 16: Two rear camera lenses, 48-megapixel (wide) and 12-megapixel (ultrawide) with 2x telephoto zoom and 12-megapixel front-facing camera.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
The best camera phones offer a primary wide camera, an ultrawide, and a telephoto zoom (usually at 5X zoom).
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, runway photography will also be taken on iPhones, as will close-ups using the telephoto capabilities.
—Lily Templeton, WWD, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for telephoto
Noun
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Al-Farra's young sons only know her as a little girl, from a photo al-Farra keeps on his phone: Islam is smiling.—
Mirna Alrached,
NPR,
16 Mar. 2025
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Such work requires special attention to detail; dozens of soldiers’ photos are on computer screens.—
Daria Tarasova-Markina,
CNN,
16 Mar. 2025
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The book, which has been published by Rizzoli New York and will be released in April, is a collection of photographs by Israeli photographer Dudi Hasson.—
Sofia Celeste,
WWD,
14 Mar. 2025
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In the weeks leading up to Victoria Goodwin's arrest, the couple shared loving photographs of each other on social media.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC News,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Email their name, pic, and backstory to QEcasting@ITV.com.—
Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
14 Mar. 2025
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One such flirty pic will run you $69, with tiers for more.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
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Some sculptures in the Torlonia Collection are snapshots of historical restoration techniques that buck current standards.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Mar. 2025
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These snapshots confront the viewer with a fiery if not existential crisis.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
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These days, most Nero Wolfe books are out of print and Rex Stout is largely forgotten—if not by his loyal fan club, the Wolfe Pack—but a whole lot of people are talking about his sister.—
Jill Lepore,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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She was impressed by the exquisiteness and fantasy of the woodblock prints.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Telephoto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telephoto. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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