TELEPHOTOGRAPHY

telephotography

(noun) photography using a telephoto lens

telephotography

(noun) transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

telephotography (uncountable)

(photography) Photography of distant subjects using a telephoto lens.

(dated) The transmission of images over a distance, especially by facsimile.

Anagrams

• phototelegraphy

Source: Wiktionary


Tel`e*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.

1. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

2. Art or process of electrically transmitting and reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy.

3. Less properly, phototelegraphy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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