Other forms: telephotos
A telephoto is a lens that magnifies distant subjects. A telephoto lens, shot on a telephoto, a long telephoto.
It also flattens the picture, making distant things look stacked together, which is why portraits are shot on one. The design packs a long focal length into a shorter barrel, and that is what telephoto strictly means.
1nountelephotoA lens that magnifies distant subjects.
“From the back of the jeep, she used a telephoto to photograph the lions.”
telephoto is a lens.
From tele- + photo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA