telephoto

telephoto
(lens)
  refers to a camera lens with a very long focal length and narrow angle of view - the effect is to compress or condense depth in space, thereby bringing distant objects closer to the viewer (without moving the camera), but it also flattens the depth of the image; it has the opposite of the effect of a wide-angle lens
  Example: Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967) and the extreme telephoto shot of Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) running towards the church - and appearing to run in place; or the scene of Indy Jones (Harrison Ford) running from natives in the opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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