Dolly Zoom - Alternative Names

Alternative Names

A dolly counter zoom is also variously known as:

• The "Hitchcock zoom" or the "Vertigo effect"
• "Hitchcock shot" or "Vertigo shot"
• Triple Reverse Zoom
• Reverse Tracking Shot
• Back Zoom Travelling
• Retrograde zoom
• "Smash Zoom" or "Smash Shot"
• Vertigo zoom
• A "Jaws shot"
• A "zido"
• A "zolly"
• Telescoping
• Trombone shot
• Push/pull
• The Trombone Effect
• A Stretch shot
• Reverse Pull
• More technically as forward zoom / reverse tracking or zoom in / dolly out
• Trans-trav (in Romanian), from trans-focal length operation and travelling movement
• Contra-zoom