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The Nikon MC-36, 10 pin wired remote has a manual button lock. Works on the D850 and others with an adapter.
Interesting Mike, I only have the ML3 infra red remote, but for what I do I prefer to take many shorter exposures, for several reasons, the D3 sensor can be very prone to overheating on long exposures which results in ugly banding and excessive noise, If there is an intrusion into the field of view such as a wandering sightseer or an unwanted car headlamp etc. I can delete that one frame without jeopardising the entire sequence. The software technique I use tends to remove wandering intruders into the frame but if not that frame can either be removed or doctored to fix the intrusion.
Another reason is it gives me more control over the exposure, at this time of year particularly the light is constantly changing, I can adjust the exposure as the light changes.
In order to get meaningful star trails I need at least 30 to 60 minuets of exposure time otherwise the trails are just too short.
Star trails per se are not particularly photogenic, while they make an interesting background, in my opinion you need a subject too!
I attempted one a couple of nights ago, while I got a lovely sunset to darkness time-lapse, as darkness fell security lighting kept coming on and ruined many of my exposures, way too many to ignore so I gave up.
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Robert.