On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 23:49:45 GMT, borgcube@swbell.net (6 of 10 Tertiary Adjunct to Unimatrix 5)
wrote:

>I've noticed that when I turn off my Sony TRV-30 camcorder, and I have
>the lense tilted upward at the time, that part of the optics within
>the lense slowy sink back into the camera. Is this normal? I mean
>the camera works fine and all, I just wondered is this behavior was
>normal too?

Yes. The moving zoom section is placed electromagnetically
rather than by using mechanical cams; when the power is
turned off, this part of the lens is free to follow gravity.
On the PC100, the elements moved freely when the camera was
off and bothered people with their rapid motion, but they
are damped and move slowly in the TRV30...