Why limit my zoom?

[dstig1]

I've noticed this for a while, and thought I'd comment now.

Whenever you are in a render or vector 3d view, you can zoom with the mouse wheel. That's great! ...Until I want to get close in on something and I run into a hard stop that Chief will not allow me to zoom closer in. So to solve it I need to kill the camera view and make a new one closer in to start (or modfy the current one - about a wash either way). This is especially a PITA in full overviews, where I really have to kill the view and setup a new camera view.

So, 1. why is this? and 2. Can the Good Engineers of Chiefdom eliminate this characteristic so I can zoom more? Please? Yes, I realize that at some point you are zoomed in too close to make any sense, but let me decide when that point is, if at all possible. There may very well be some critical software reason why it cannot work, but I have unlimited zoom in some other CAD software I use, as one data point.

I guess I should also post this in suggestions.

Thanks,
Dave