diff --git a/packages/flame/lib/src/camera/camera_component.dart b/packages/flame/lib/src/camera/camera_component.dart
index 8b0998f77a7..3d1761dce70 100644
--- a/packages/flame/lib/src/camera/camera_component.dart
+++ b/packages/flame/lib/src/camera/camera_component.dart
@@ -284,25 +284,55 @@ class CameraComponent extends Component {
     if ((world?.isMounted ?? false) &&
         currentCameras.length < maxCamerasDepth) {
       if (checkContains(viewport, viewportPoint)) {
-        currentCameras.add(this);
         final worldPoint = transformContext(viewfinder, viewportPoint);
         if (worldPoint == null) {
           return;
         }
-        yield* viewfinder.componentsAtLocation(
-          worldPoint,
-          nestedContexts,
-          transformContext,
-          checkContains,
+        yield* _onCameraStack(
+          viewfinder.componentsAtLocation(
+            worldPoint,
+            nestedContexts,
+            transformContext,
+            checkContains,
+          ),
         );
-        yield* world!.componentsAtLocation(
-          worldPoint,
-          nestedContexts,
-          transformContext,
-          checkContains,
+        yield* _onCameraStack(
+          world!.componentsAtLocation(
+            worldPoint,
+            nestedContexts,
+            transformContext,
+            checkContains,
+          ),
         );
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Iterates [components] with this camera pushed onto [currentCameras], so
+  /// that a camera nested within the world still sees the correct depth.
+  ///
+  /// The camera is pushed and popped around every step rather than around the
+  /// whole iteration. This is a lazy iterable, so the caller is free to stop
+  /// early, for example by breaking out of a loop over [componentsAtPoint] as
+  /// soon as the tapped component is found. That leaves the generator
+  /// suspended at a `yield`, and the code after it never runs. Popping there
+  /// would therefore be skipped, and since [currentCameras] is static the
+  /// entry would be leaked for the rest of the process; after
+  /// [maxCamerasDepth] such leaks no camera renders its world any more.
+  Iterable<Component> _onCameraStack(Iterable<Component> components) sync* {
+    final iterator = components.iterator;
+    while (true) {
+      currentCameras.add(this);
+      final bool hasNext;
+      try {
+        hasNext = iterator.moveNext();
+      } finally {
         currentCameras.removeLast();
       }
+      if (!hasNext) {
+        return;
+      }
+      yield iterator.current;
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/flame/test/camera/camera_component_test.dart b/packages/flame/test/camera/camera_component_test.dart
index 5e71d0c48fe..de3b7889cf9 100644
--- a/packages/flame/test/camera/camera_component_test.dart
+++ b/packages/flame/test/camera/camera_component_test.dart
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import 'dart:math';
+import 'dart:ui' show PictureRecorder;
 
 import 'package:flame/camera.dart';
 import 'package:flame/components.dart';
@@ -240,6 +241,39 @@ void main() {
       );
     });
 
+    testWithFlameGame(
+      'componentsAtPoint that is not fully iterated keeps the camera '
+      'rendering',
+      (game) async {
+        game.camera.viewport = FixedSizeViewport(600, 400)
+          ..anchor = Anchor.center
+          ..position = Vector2(400, 300)
+          ..priority = -1;
+        game.camera.viewfinder.position = Vector2(100, 50);
+        final component = _RenderCounter(
+          size: Vector2(300, 100),
+          position: Vector2(50, 30),
+        );
+        game.world.add(component);
+        await game.ready();
+
+        // Stopping as soon as the wanted component turns up is what a game
+        // acting on whatever was tapped does.
+        for (var i = 0; i < CameraComponent.maxCamerasDepth * 2; i++) {
+          for (final candidate in game.componentsAtPoint(Vector2(400, 300))) {
+            if (candidate == component) {
+              break;
+            }
+          }
+          expect(CameraComponent.currentCameras, isEmpty);
+        }
+
+        component.renderCount = 0;
+        game.render(Canvas(PictureRecorder()));
+        expect(component.renderCount, 1);
+      },
+    );
+
     testWithFlameGame('visibleWorldRect', (game) async {
       await game.ready();
       final camera = game.camera;
@@ -613,6 +647,13 @@ class _SolidBackground extends Component with HasPaint {
   void render(Canvas canvas) => canvas.drawColor(color, BlendMode.src);
 }
 
+class _RenderCounter extends PositionComponent {
+  _RenderCounter({super.size, super.position});
+  int renderCount = 0;
+  @override
+  void render(Canvas canvas) => renderCount++;
+}
+
 class _PostProcessChecker extends PostProcess {
   bool isLoaded = false;