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telephotography |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Telephotography \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: telephotography n 1: transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance 2: photography using a telephoto lens
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