Have you got ND filters? Sounds like anything over a minute generally requires one.
I’ve got 1000, 64 and 8, but besides forcing myself to use them (and getting mediocre results anyways), I don’t really need them, especially after I upgraded to a lens that’s got 77 mm thread instead of 55 mm.
The noise (even at ISO 100) becomes quite significant for me once I go over like 3 or 4 minutes of exposure time.
Of course with ND filters - often combined. The results are of course a matter of taste, but I like them. Just an example:
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I shoot with a tripod almost all the time (except for the GR III) and I prefer it since I can easily refine my composition then wait for the light i want. I also tend to twitch and shake. I have a hard time hand holding my Nikon Z7ii with a 50mm prime on it. I either twitch and ruin my composition or the frame ends up blurry.
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Yeah, I wasn’t sure if the photos were in complete dark, that’s where it is kind of on the edge of not needing filters.
Me too, when all three combined, I was often starting to see vignetting in the corners at the wider focal lengths.
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Vignetting is part of the game. The shown shot is a combined shot of two 10 minutes exposures. The longer the exposure the more it brings the weak spots of your lens to the surface.
Anyway vignetting is correctable but I usually leave in a good portion of it. A 20 minutes exposure doesn’t look natural anyway and I like a btt of a smooth vignette.
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Yeah, but I meant that the filter casing itself started to be in the view 
Well, technically no long exposure looks natural 
… but yes, I get your point. That’s on the other hand the magic of long exposures, they look extraordinary.
Yes 3 filters combined is overkill. I only combine two. If more is needed I take two shots and combine them. The filters have to be very slim if you don’t want them to be part of the picture on a ultrawide angle.
This. Definitely.
My wife (sometimes) carries my tripod 
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Wow. I’d get a whack if I suggested that
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My wife is never around when I’m taking photos, certainly not with me on a “photo trip”. Closest that ever came to happening was a month ago on vacation when I drove 10 minutes for a sunset shot and she waited in the truck (rather than wait in the B&B). 
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My wife likes to be outside, I like to take photos. A win-win situation. When I carry my heavy photo bag with telephoto lens and stuff, then she is kind enough to carry my travel tripod. So, we can take walks together while I can take some pictures. Nevertheless, the “yield” is often higher, when I’m out on my own.
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There’s a distinction between being outdoors and being merely outside. Outdoors is doing something enjoyable in a nice place. Outside is not being inside.
I love outdoors but it almost never happens here where I live. My wife likes outside (but not really outdoors), usually in the form of endlessly transplanting small plants from one pot to another, one bed to another, one planter to another… Not my idea of fun but apparently she likes it. I mow the lawn when necessary and that’s it.
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My wife likes to be outside (e.g. garden) and outdoors.
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My wife likes to be outdoors but not outside…
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Wifes people are different.
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My wife is my tripod.
Just kidding. I like my tripod, though, and I like most of the things that have been complained about in this thread. My tripod is the house brand “Cameron” from Henry’s (a large chain of camera shops in Canada). Carbon fiber legs, twist leg locks, center column with another twist lock, and a ball head. IIRC, it’s about 3-3.5 pounds, but I can’t check that because I seem to have lost my luggage scale the other week.
At this point in my life, my hands are less steady than they used to be, and I have a camera that doesn’t have IBIS. So I can’t shoot handheld at some of the shutter speeds that others on this thread say they can. I’d way rather carry a tripod than come home from a trip with card after card of shitty shots.
I like the center column because it’s quicker to change height with that than by adjusting the length of three legs. The legs don’t have to get the tripod exactly level, because ball head. When I started, I did have trouble with failing to tighten legs properly and so on, but over time it sank in and now the legs are reliably sturdy. Once I got used to the knobs on the ball head, they became automatic as well.
I just came back from a week-long workshop, and the tripod was strapped to the side of my backpack everywhere I went. I barely noticed it. Total pack weight was about 30 pounds.
I do wish everyone would standardize on Arca Swiss and be done with it. And why doesn’t any camera maker make the bottom and one side of their bodies Arca compatible?
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