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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 666506" data-attributes="member: 13090">I'm going to preface this by saying my total experience with CF tripods is limited so I'm certainly no expert on the topic. That being said, I think what you might want to be asking yourself is...  What kind of exposures you will be expecting this new tripod to handle?If what you need is essentially a "third hand" to help with things like doing panos or long-ISH exposures (and by "long-ISH what I mean is exposures measured in fractions of a second in duration, ones that are too slow for hand-held/hand-held VR but not what I call "long") then a good a good quality CF tripod is probably fine. I have determined that not all CF is created equal, however but that's probably a whole 'nother can of worms. More to the point, where I've found myself starting to separate the proverbial wheat from the equally proverbial chaff is when I'm doing exposures that are ten, fifteen... even thirty-seconds long. In my experience THIS is where the slightest weakness in your tripod will reveal itself. So where's the cutoff? In my mind anything requiring an exposure of one-second or longer means big, heavy tripod. I'm leery of sandbagging tripods, personally and don't do it any more because the degree of success with doing so has been hit-or-miss. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong or a different, better CF tripod would have handled the job better... I don't know. Whatever the root cause I've given up on the idea of having a single tripod that rules them all (and in the darkness binds them) and instead have settled on having a couple (possibly three) tripods; each for a differnt purpose, and then I do my best to apply the proper tool to the job at hand.</blockquote>

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