Lens creep
 

I've a friend who's got a D7000 with a Nikon 18-200 VR lens which if you tilt it skyward creeps backwards, the shop says nothing wrong keep using it its new! anyone got any experiance of this type of lens

it a common fault on the nikon 18-200mm.

I had the same problem with my 18-200 but it can be fixed quite easily.

Go to any plumbers merchants and get a rubber O ring from a waste pipe fitting. You need to get one that is slightly smaller in diameter than the lens barrel so that it is a tight fit.

Slide this over the lens so that it sits over the join between the zoom ring and the fixed part of the lens. This will create some friction, and makes zooming a little stiffer, but puts and end to zoom creep.

I can now set my lens to any focal length and point it any any direction and it stays where I put it.

And no it was not my idea I read it on a website somewhere ages ago. :D

Like most of these my 18-200 suffers badly from Zoom creep.

Nikon can, after much cajoling and threats of physical violence, do something about it. But not willingly, you have to keep nibbling away at their defences.

They wouldn't do mine because in spite of it being only a few months old, I couldn't find the receipt and in their eyes I couldn't prove it was within the warranty period. The fact that the lens hadn't been on the market long enough to be out of warranty was a logic completely lost on the morons at Nikon Customer Service.

As long as you've got the paperwork stick it to Nikon.:mad:

This seems to be a problem Nikon have had for years. I have an old 70-210 AF zoom and it does the same thing. Love the idea bout the O ring though. I will get one today.

Thanks all this sounds scary! I'm actually thinking of changing to Nikon any other lenses giving trouble?

The only lens that this happens to me on is the bigma or Sigma 50-500mm F4-6.3, but by holding the zoom ring whilst taking the shot stops it. :D

My friend's Canon 18-200 zoom has exactly the same problem, but she lives with it. She finds that the O ring on my Nikon makes zooming too stiff for her taste.

It seems that all these big range zooms suffer with creep to some extent, a result of all the glass inside no doubt.