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What is a telephoto camera in mobile phones? I answer this question and also explain how a telephoto lens works in mobile devices, as well as the benefits.
Some phone brands with the best telephoto cameras include Huawei, Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, Xiaomi, and Vivo.
Which is the best telephoto camera phone in the market today, in your own opinion?
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There are many phones with a telephoto
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camera available in the market today,
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but in the grand scheme of things, they
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are a minority compared to phones
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without a telephoto lens. And that is
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because a telephoto camera is a little
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bit of an advanced piece of technology
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that is included in phones at a higher
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end. What is a telephoto camera? What's
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special about it? Let's find out.
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A telephoto lens or a telephoto camera
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is a lens that has the ability to
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capture distant images without loss of
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details, without loss of clarity,
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without loss of sharpness. Pretty much
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what it does is that it allows your
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phone to capture objects that are far
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away
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with greater quality and sharpness and
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everything else. Your regular phone
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camera can take general pictures,
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buildings, people, plants, and they get
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very good results within a normal range.
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But let's say you want to capture an
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image that is far off in such a way that
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you want to be able to see greater
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details of that image. Try it with any
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of your regular cameras. You already
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know the results.
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Those images end up blurry. Once you
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zoom in, you see that details are lost.
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Sometimes color is lost, clarity is
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lost. You can't see clearly images that
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are far off. A telephoto lens or a
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telephoto camera lets you capture images
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of things that are way way way far away
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while preserving the quality. That's the
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key thing. It preserves the quality.
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Telephoto lenses make possible what we
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call optical zoom. Optical zoom is
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zooming that happens using physical
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lenses. In regular photo mode for most
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phones, you can do what you call digital
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zoom. Take the picture, zoom in, but
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quality is lost in a telephoto lens or a
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telephoto camera. The quality is not
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lost when you take pictures of images
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that are far off. As a matter of fact,
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some days ago, there was a trailer
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parked at the far end of our street. And
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as I looked out from the window, I
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couldn't see it visually. And I asked my
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wife, "Has this trailer left?" She said
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she wasn't aware. I said, "Oh, okay. I
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have a way of finding out. This phone
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has a telephoto lens." I brought out my
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phone and I zoomed into that spot where
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the trailer was parked. And lo and
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behold, the trailer was still there, but
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it wasn't even visible to my eye from
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where I stood.
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It wasn't visible to my eye, but it was
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there. I zoomed in with the telephoto
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camera. I captured it and I showed it to
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my wife. the trailer is still there.
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That's the power of a telephoto lens.
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Some of the best camera phones with
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telephoto lens have up to 10 times zoom.
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That is one of the benefits. That is the
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major benefit of a telephoto lens. It
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allows you to zoom into far away objects
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and capture them without a loss of
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quality. any phone when you're looking
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through the specs of a phone and they
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mention that it has optical zoom that
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phone has a telephoto lens. That's how
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to know.
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Once there is a mention of optical zoom,
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it means zoom enabled with physical
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lenses
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that phone has a telephoto lens. There
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are two types of telephoto lenses. There
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is the regular flat telephoto lens and
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then there is what we call a periscope
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telephoto lens. It's a more a periscope
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telephoto lens is a more advanced
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telephoto lens that allows you to create
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even deeper and greater optical zoom. So
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if you see a phone listed with periscope
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telephoto lens, yeah, they're talking
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about advanced advanced telephoto lens.
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Also, if you have a telephoto lens on a
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phone, you can use it to capture macro
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shots. you know those shots of ants,
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tiny things, small things you want
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magnified. That telephoto lens is, as
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I've already explained, clearly a
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magnifying glass, right? It magnifies
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things that are far away. It can also
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magnify things that are close by, small
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things that are close by. So, you can
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take pictures of an ant and see great
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details of the structure, the physical
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structure of that ant. You can take
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pictures of a plant or of a leaf or of a
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flower, a close-up picture of a flower
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and see very very great details of that.
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So there are two things, two things, two
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main things you can do with a telephoto
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lens. Capture clear images of items that
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are far off. Capture sharp, detailed
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images of tiny objects that are in front
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of you.
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That is why most phones with a telephoto
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lens do not have a macro lens. There is
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no point. What do you need a macro lens
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for if you have a telephoto lens in
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there? Telephoto lenses are also great
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for capturing portrait images because
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they have a shallower depth of they
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produce images with a shallower depth of
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field. pretty much they can give you a
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soft blur in the background while
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keeping the subject the human in front
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sharp and clear. The question is if you
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want a phone with a telephoto lens where
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should you look at which manufacturers
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actually almost every phone manufacturer
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has multiple models with telephoto lens
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the models usually start at the top
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whether it's Apple iPhone Samsung Galaxy
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Huawei Xiaomi Nothing Phone Motorola
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Techno any phone brand that manufactures
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premium flagship devices definitely has
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one or more models with a telephoto
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lens. Apple's top range iPhones all have
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telephoto lenses. Samsung's Galaxy S
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series, they all have telephoto lenses.
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Xiaomi's top phones have telephoto
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lenses. Huawei stop phones have
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telephoto lenses. Just look at the
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premium flagship level for telephoto
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lenses. Here's the interesting thing.
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Like all technology, it's began to drip
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and trickle down to the mid-range.
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If you look in the mid-range sector of
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quite a number of manufacturers, you
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will find phones with telephoto lenses
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in there. For example, nothing from 3A
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has a telephoto lens. The 3A Pro has a
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periscope telephoto lens. The 3 has a
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periscope telephoto lens. You also have
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other brands. Motorola has a number of
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mid-range models with telephoto lenses.
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Techno has mid-range models with
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telephoto lens. This is the K 18 Premier
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from a few years back. It has a
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telephoto lens. Premium flagship models
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and a few mid-range phone models are
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beginning to have telephoto lenses. Like
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I said, which are the best? It's
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difficult to talk about the best because
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the best keep changing from time to
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time. There was a time it was
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undisputably
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Samsung and then you had Apple behind
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and then there was a time it became
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Xiaomi. The best telephoto lenses in the
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market came from Xiaomi and then it
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switched to Huawei.
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But as a rule, pick any one of the top
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brands, any one of the good brands and
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buy a phone with telephoto lens from
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them and you have a good one. Depending
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on your budget, depending on the country
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where you are, whether a particular
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brand's phones are available,
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all those factors will determine which
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phone with a telephoto lens is available
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to you at any point in time. But the
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things to look for if you're shopping
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for a phone like that in the specs,
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check if telephoto lens is mentioned or
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optical zoom is mentioned. If you see
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digital zoom, it doesn't have that's not
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a telephoto lens feature. It's just
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software playing with images. What you
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need to look out for is optical zoom or
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the specific mention of telephoto lens.
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Have you used a smartphone with a
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telephoto lens before? What was your
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experience? Do you think that it makes
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enough difference, you know, for you to
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make it a habit of looking for phones
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with telephoto lens? Talk to me in the
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comments below. I'd like to hear from
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you. Thanks for watching this video. Do
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