I believe I emailed this question in before I figured out where to post.
My question has to do with "zooming in": when I (we, everybody in my office) zoom in too close, say to a detail of a corner, like 2 feet away, everything explodes, like there's an imaginary section plane cutting everything off; sort of like a "clipping plane" in other modelling softwares. This makes it impossible to get close enough to do really detailed work. The same phenomenon happens when doing simple animations via scenes; the walls etc. of what I'm walking through get cut away at what seems about 2 feet away from my camera point.
It happens regardless of what face style you're in.
It all seems to be worse when shadows are turned on. It makes it hard to work at a detailed level and what's worse it make animations, which are otherwise very effective with clients, become distracting/annoying.