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14-09-11, 02:21 PM
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Lens creep
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14-09-11, 02:53 PM
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14-09-11, 05:56 PM
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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. 
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14-09-11, 09:55 PM
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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. 
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27-09-11, 02:19 PM
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27-09-11, 10:38 PM
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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.
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29-09-11, 06:42 AM
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