Zoom creep
1. A problem often suffered by push-pull zoom lenses. Such lenses have their focal length settings held in place by friction, and sometimes this isn’t enough to counteract the weight of the lens. If you have a lens which slowly slides, changing focal length, when it’s pointing up or down then you have a lens which exhibits zoom creep. Two-touch zoom lenses usually do not suffer from this problem to [...]
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