How to Use telephoto lens in a Sentence

telephoto lens

noun
  • Use binoculars, a spotting scope, or a telephoto lens for a good view.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 8 June 2023
  • The telephoto lens feels the weakest of the three, but not so far as to let the overall package down.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Read on and then book a ticket, pack your telephoto lens, and take flight to the best places in the world for bird watching.
    — David Escribano, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike the rest of the S series, there's no telephoto lens on the Edge.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • Also of note is the camera bump for Apple’s new telephoto lens.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • But Horálek captured this image with just a camera and telephoto lens.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • To achieve the slimness, the report says Samsung has ditched the telephoto lens.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
  • This means not having to go up to the bigger-body phone to get the full-size 5x optical telephoto lens.
    — Anshel Sag, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The 200 megapixel sensor partly makes up for the lack of a telephoto lens.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • The more time went by without so much as a single blurry telephoto lens shot of Kate, the more the rumors built.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024
  • The true test comes in the telephoto lens, which requires more complex optics and processing to achieve a zoom effect.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Kan’s recent subjects are swaying pines and rushing waterfalls, viewed up close as if through a telephoto lens.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • When planning your visit, think about packing binoculars or a camera with a telephoto lens.
    — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • With a better sensor, Apple could do exactly the same thing with the telephoto lens.
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Max replaces the 3x telephoto lens with a 5x one—same megapixels, same aperture.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The park confirmed that the cute moment was captured using a telephoto lens from more than 50 feet away, as required by law.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
  • There's no telephoto lens here, but Google's capable image processing helps a lot.
    — ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • For distant objects, a telephoto lens is much better than the digital zooming of the iPhone.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 25 June 2025
  • The first is a long telephoto lens to get a close view of the sun during the eclipse and the second is a wider angle lens to capture both the eclipse and the landscape around you.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Baker used a telephoto lens and directed Madison through an earpiece.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
  • And the telephoto lens has a slightly larger aperture, so your aforementioned super-zoomed photos will be a little brighter.
    — David Pierce, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Anders was armed with a Hasselblad camera with a 250mm telephoto lens.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The smartphone will feature an 8x telephoto lens, the longest telephoto lens for iPhones.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Viewed from a distance through a telephoto lens, his demise in a godforsaken town, at the hands of Somoza’s troops, is random, scruffy, and dumb.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Traffic ended up stopping while bison crossed the road, so Braaten stuck her camera out the window to take a closer look with her telephoto lens.
    — CBS News, 12 June 2024
  • The closer zoom of Moment’s telephoto lens was a particular standout.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Another mode uses that same sensor to act as a 12MP 2x telephoto lens.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Even though there is a significant bump to hold the rear camera lenses, the Edge loses the telephoto lens, relying on just a main lens and a wide-angle lens.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • The 3x optical telephoto lens produces clean images, though the Ultra (again) has a slight advantage in fine detail.
    — PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Dressed in a plaid button up, the 41-year-old leans into a digital camera on a tripod, with a long telephoto lens pointed toward that plane, and slowly counts.
    — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 6 Feb. 2026

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