Yesterday I did a 20 minute exposure, far longer than I've ever done before. My guess on exposure came out pretty well, but the camera moved. Here are the particulars:
Camera: Wista SP, tightened up all adjustments pretty well before the shot. 90 mm lens, so the bellows were not extended.
Tripod: Pretty beefy Feisol tripod w/ rubber feet, on a rough bedrock surface. I guess I should have checked where the feet were - maybe getting them into divots in the rock would help.
Head: Semi-beefy Benro ball head. I MAY not have really cranked this down.
Aperture: f32
I used a cable release and left it hanging during the exposure. I was in a cave, with no wind and no people coming by other than me when I left the camera and then came back.
The only ideas I have right now are to weight the tripod and remove the cable release and do the exposure by simply removing and replacing the darkslide with the lens open (to the desired aperture). I suppose I could remove the ball head and attach the camera directly to the tripod, but I'd rather not do that. I also don't want to purchase another tripod!
Any thoughts? Thanks!
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