ENG Lens Servo-Manual Override

[Mark Suszko]

Bad, IMO. You’re stressing the servo motor and gears. Try using the side of your finger as a drag against the lens barrel joint. Or see if there’s a speed adjust knob for the servo rocker.

On the large Fuji and canon ENG lenses we use, I long ago discovered you can put your pointer finger and thumb, not on the rocker itself, but on the sloped *ends* of the rocker, where it meets the body of the grip, and “squeezing” the rocker from those spots gives me a super-slow zoom rate. I’d put up a still to illustrate, but left my still cam home today. Maybe I can post one tomorrow.

[Mark Suszko]

Picture 1 is how a servo zoom is usually operated: the finger rests in the center of the rocker switch and goes forward or back.

Picture 2 is the copyrighted “Suszko Pinch”:

You pinch the front and back of the rocker between pointer finger and thumb, and a slight rolling of the thumb or finger moves the rocker a very, very small amount. This can be improved by finding the speed adjustment pot on the servo zoom and turning the speed all the way down, to get a “2-minute zoom”. Some cameras may not have a physical adjustment pot that’s accessible to the user, but may have a secondary menu drop-down to access it in software. Check your owners’ manual for that.

[Ervin Tia]

haha thanks for that signature move!
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[Mark Suszko]

Looks weird, works great!