Commuter Trains, Ewing (West Trenton), NJ, 2010.All the pixels, but limited service on weekends and holidays, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/43#photography

Five electric commuter trains in a rail yard, under overhead wires. A conductor boards the leftmost train. It is winter, with snow on the ground.
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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

And none of this has anything to do with whether a lens is a "zoom", which refers to lenses with a focal length that can be varied across a range to achieve different angles of view without changing lenses. Many people casually use "zoom", "telephoto", and "long" interchangeably (usually when they just mean "long"), but that just confuses people who understand the technical meaning of those terms.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Also, fun fact, while zoom lenses today are very commonly used as a convenient alternative to multiple lenses in still photography, they were mostly developed for cinema, where "zooming" during a shot is an effect that can't be achieved without the ability to vary the focal length on the fly.

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