Definitions for: Telephotography


[n] photography using a telephoto lens
[n] transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

See Also: photography, picture taking, radiophotography, transmission, transmittal, transmitting

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