Lester E. Spray, American Republican politician, Candidate for Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from Allegheny County 16th District, 1960; Judd Spray, American Democrat politician, Member of Michigan Democratic State Central Committee, 1969
Zoom Shot. A zoom is technically not a camera move as it does not require the camera itself to move at all. Zooming means altering the focal length of the lens to give the illusion of moving closer to or further away from the action. The effect is not quite the same though.
zoom shot A shot taken with a zoom (varifocal, or variable focal length) *lens in which focal length is changed from wide-angle to telephoto, or vice versa, in the course of recording the shot. A zoom shot creates the impression of the camera moving towards ( zoom in) or away from (zoom out) the subject, though no *camera movement is involved. However, although a zoom shot may create mobile framing as, say, a tracking ...