It’s really bloody awful trying to do a lot of things in closed spaces in this game. Especially if you’re using a large race. I try to do a jumping puzzle as my Charr, and the camera is either bouncing off the walls, or zoomed in and blocked by my character’s back. It’s bad enough trying to use them in open puzzles, but this is just pathetic. I don’t even do half of them because the reward isn’t worth the frustration.
Zooming in 100% should be 1st-person (i.e. your character is invisible to you, and you don’t look from behind them). Excluding this has been a horrible decision/oversight.