zoom in/out
— phrasal verb with zoom uk/zuːm/us/zuːm/verb informal
to (cause a camera or computer to) make the image of something or someone appear much larger and nearer, or much smaller and further away:
At the beginning of the film, the camera zooms in to show two people sitting by the side of a river.
Click on a photo of any student, and it zooms out to full-size.
Television cameras zoomed in on the fans cheering in the stands.
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- negative
- say cheese idiom
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
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