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Two orbits later, they went down themselves, taking cameras with long-focus lenses to record the star-patterns at the bottom of the shaft.

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Lippershey seized upon the idea after one of his assistants found that by lining up a long-focus lens and a short-focus lens in front of the eye, distant objects appeared closer.

Oct. 2, 1608: Up Close and Personal With Hans Lippershey 2007

The basic aircraft used large, long-focus cameras and Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) equipment.

Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990

This image was coming to them from the long-focus TV camera mounted on the rim of the big radio dish; the cross-wires at its center showed the exact orientation of the antenna.

2001 A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C. 1968

XIV of France ordered several long-focus lenses (86, 100, 136 feet respectively) for Cassini, who discovered with their aid additional satellites of Saturn.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

The employment of long-focus lenses for coronal photography is thus facilitated, and the size of the image is proportional to the length of the focus.

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

My new camera should be able to take portratis, landscapes, movement, close ups from animals and flowers, … Not that I want a long-focus lens, but I want to be able to take stunning pictures everywhere!

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In other words, relevant search results may provide quick points of reference, but they don’t allow for the associations and tangential observations that long-focus information gathering provides.

Am Teh Intarwebz Making Us Dum? 2008

"tallow-drop," which takes the form of a somewhat flattened or long-focus double-convex lens.

The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin

Keep the long-focus camera on target and give us the steadiest pictures you can. "

A Meeting with Medusa Clarke, Arthur C. 1988