望遠(ぼうえん)レンズ

Composed of 望遠(ぼうえん) (seeing far, telescopic) and レンズ (lens, from English). A standard photography term understood by most Japanese speakers.

Usage

Commonly encountered in photography discussions, electronics stores, and when attending events like school sports days (運動会(うんどうかい)) where parents often use telephoto lenses to photograph their children from the stands.

Common collocations

• 望遠(ぼうえん)レンズで撮(と)る: to shoot with a telephoto lens
• 望遠(ぼうえん)レンズを装着(そうちゃく)する: to attach a telephoto lens
• 超(ちょう)望遠(ぼうえん)レンズ: super telephoto lens
• 望遠(ぼうえん)レンズの手(て)ブレ補正(ほせい): telephoto lens image stabilization

Similar words

• 広角(こうかく)レンズ: wide-angle lens — captures a wider field of view, the opposite of a telephoto lens
• 単焦点(たんしょうてん)レンズ: prime lens — a lens with a fixed focal length, which may or may not be telephoto
• 望遠鏡(ぼうえんきょう): telescope — a viewing device for distant objects, not a camera lens