Zoom Creep

[ATHiker95]

I just thought I'd pass along a tip that my wife suggested today. I have an old 70-210 f3.5-4.5 that I used with my A2E, but it suffers from bad zoom creep. She suggested that a bit of mounting putty, which you can pick up at a Crafts store would work. You just tear off a tiny piece (it's like chewing gum) and then when pointing camera downwards, once you have zoomed to desired length, just slap a tiny bit of this on the camera at the zoom ring. Holds it right in place! Peels off easily - sort of reminds me of Silly Putty.

I'm sure you may have other thoughts, but that is one that does the trick. I know nothing plagues me more than to set up the tripod to take carefully composed shot, set the self timer, press the shutter button and then watch the zoom slide out while I'm waiting for the shutter to trip!

Mark

[IanBMW]

Never had zoom creep, but it sounds annoying.....love the fix....definitally have to remember that if I ever run into a problem.

[Jesper]

My 28-135 also has zoom creep, which many people seem to have with their 28-135's.

The 70-300 DO has a special zoom lock button - you can lock it at 70mm so that it doesn't extend when you hang the lens down.

[EoSD30fReAk]

i have it too with the 28-135IS! can be very anoying! but i''ve seen some 28-135IS lenses that had it much worse than mine so i guess i got a fairly good one:D