[f. Gr. τῆλε (see TELE-) + PHOTOGRAPH; a back formation from TELEPHOTOGRAPHIC2, the first-formed word of this group: see note there.] A photograph of a distant object taken with a telephotographic lens.
1900. Army & Navy Jrnl., 14 July, 1097. Good telephotographs have been obtained at a distance of over forty miles, and those taken beyond artillery range (ten miles) are on a sufficiently large scale to be of practical use.
1904. Times, Lit. Supp., 8 April, 109/2. We must give the palm to the striking telephotograph, facing page 184.
1909. Marriage, Sculptures Chartres Cathedral, Pref. 8. Those … illustrations, generally speaking, in which the detail is on the largest scale are telephotographs.
Hence Telephotograph v., trans. to photograph with a telephotographic lens or apparatus; Telephotographer, one who takes a telephotograph. So Telephotography2, the art or practice of taking photographs of distant objects by a camera with a telephotographic lens.
1900. Westm. Gaz., 27 Jan., 4/3. Owing to haze it was impossible to *telephotograph the Boers.
1899. Pall Mall G., 21 Dec., 3. The would-be *telephotographer was turned back.
1899. Dallmeyer (title), *Telephotography, an Elementary Treatise on the Construction and Application of the Telephotographic Lens.
1899. Pall Mall G., 21 Dec., 3. It is difficult to understand why the War Office has not taken advantage of telephotography.
