I can’t seem to find where that dead-zone comes from.
It’s set to zero on all axis related to the camera in the settings.
All axis are smooth (without apparent dead-zone) when observed through the UI elements in the settings section.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I moved topic to #self-service
Open the Windows Control Panel (stay away from the Win-10 “Settings” UI for this). Open the View Devices and Printers link. In that window, right-click the icon for your controller, then choose Game Controller settings. If you have more than one controller connected, select the one you need and click Properties. If yours is anything like mine, there will be a Settings tab and a Test tab. There should be a Calibrate option via the Settings tab - run that, then check the controls in the Test tab.
Thank you for the proposed path!
However, despite the camera showing a ~50% effective dead-zone, the controls react perfectly smooth (and without deadzone) in MSFS’s controller axis sensitivity section as well as in the Controller’s Test panel mentioned above.
I went ahead and recalibrated the controller as proposed without any change in the result.
There is a setting on the camera UI, slide the slider to 0 for camera speed and it is a little easier to control.
Setting the camera speed to zero prevents the camera from moving entirely
Okay, well, yes lol 1 then 
Regardless of the speed I set it to, the dead-zone remains the same.
It is especially noticeable when translating the camera at low speed.
Even quick taps with the keys can sometimes be too fast indeed. Perhaps there is a mod for it or it will be refined in time?
That’s the answer I’m hoping to get here from someone at Asobo.
There has to be a way to do cinematic shots in sim!
Have a look here too!
Yea I have tried the dev camera… Sadly it suffers from the same dead-zone and doesn’t have smoothing at both ends of the movement. I would have expected some settings related to dead-zones in the Dev Camera Settings panel but sadly there are only 2 sliders for transition and rotation speeds.
I can look later. I wonder if looking under the keyboard key controls under control settings if WASD has some slider? Perhaps not. I’ll take a look too, maybe there is something. For the longest time I didn’t know it was possible to toggle on and off the taxi ribbon via a key combo until one day I accidentally left notifications on and saw some popup telling me to hit a key on my keyboard along with a joystick axis to toggle it on. 