I think that's looking through the wrong end of the telescope. (religion-online.org)
I retain a memory of him from that occasion, an image at once vivid and tiny, as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope: Hyung Goo, very slight and sober, talking quietly and deliberately about his father's absence from the family when he was young. (religion-online.org)
Its legal representative at the inquiry, Neil Garnham QC, told Lord Justice Leveson that critics of the police were in danger of «looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope», as it was far from clear private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's notes that a large number of people were victims of phone - hacking. (politics.co.uk)