telephoto lens
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Indonesian villager Octavius wades through the forest in rubber boots and tattered joggers, ears pricked, eyes peeled, a telephoto lens on his phone primed to capture orangutans, monkeys or birds.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
It’s hard to imagine a riskier trek, but he managed to pull it off, traveling through cities and towns with a telephoto lens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
Sometimes she was using a short lens when she should have been using a telephoto lens and vice versa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
As I didn't want to risk disturbing the potoo into flight, I photographed it with a long telephoto lens.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
Squinting through my camera’s telephoto lens at the upper Southeast Ridge, I was surprised to see four antlike figures moving almost imperceptibly toward the South Summit.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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