After being gone from retail for many years I decided to try it out during the MoP classic waiting room.
Something I noticed straight away when trying out the Dragonflight content is that the camera is too zoomed in for my liking. I have inceased Camera FOV to max in settings, and using the script /console cameraDistanceMaxZoomFactor 2.6, but I still think it’s too zoomed in, especially when dragonriding. Are there more ways to increase the camera distance, or am I stuck like this?
Zoom distance has had a cap for quite a while now… no idea if carried into Classic.
Max settings and script works fine for me in Classic, it’s as zoomed out as I need it to be. But even though the view distance is probably the same in retail, it somehow feels too claustrophobic. It isn’t that much of an issue in general, I notice it mostly when dragonriding. My spontaneous feeling is that dragonriding would feel better if the view distance was even greater.
This is as far as I can zoom out in Retail
I did see if it made any difference to use skyriding, which I avoid like the plague
First time seeing someone complain this.
First time for everything i guess 
To me Camera is fine.
How far would you want it to go?
RTS far?
Is that 21:9 resolution? It doesn’t seem to be 16:9. And it seems to be more zoomed out than what I can at my 1920x1080.
Is it possible the zoom factor is related to the resolution ratio?
You don’t frequent the forums, or you’re new to them I suppose 
That’s how far we could have had it back till MoP I think.
Yep, 21:9 (in fact 21.33333… : 9), also known as “ultrawide”.
I can’t test it because I don’t have an ultrawide monitor, but I will test if going from 16:9 to 4:3 reduces the max distance of the camera.
I miss the old zoom out.
I personally wish we had a little more control over the Camera, I’d personally love to pitch it upwards, so I can see further into the horizon and having my character near the buttom of the screen instead of in the center.
Being this high up in the air near western plaguelands and this choise of words cant be other but pun intended 
I was mog farming nearby 
Mayve you weren’t around when it happened? There was a HUGE outcry and complaints.
One clever addon author found a workaround and created the addon MaxCam, until the devs closed the loophole.
The original limit on the zoom was even worse than this. I could not have continued playing with it. I did stop logging in much.
The devs moved the limit out a bit, and now I find it just tolerable.
One of the most stupid, pointless, irrational changes ever made to the game. 
Yeah i didnt know.Good thats fixed
I tested as much as my monitor would allow me.
The zoom factor doesn’t depend on resolution at all. Wider resolutions allow for more field of view left-to-right. But top-to-bottom is equal at all resolutions.
It looked to me as if you had larger zoom-out because your field of view from left-to-right is larger than mine. But the actual “distance” between the character and the camera is the same in every resolution.
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𝗭𝗢𝗢𝗠 𝗛𝗔𝗖𝗞 ► /console cameraDistanceMaxZoomFactor 2.6
𝗭𝗢𝗢𝗠 𝗦𝗠𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 ► /console CameraReduceUnexpectedMovement 1
𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗖𝗞 ► /console set ResampleAlwaysSharpen 1
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