In-depth inquiry  How to Make a Professional tripod
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In-depth inquiry  How to Make a Professional tripod
The last two years，with the rapid popularization of digital SLR，tripod is also become a hot topic that professional photographer and photography enthusiasts concern.whether Carbon fiber tripods or magnesium alloy tripod is more suitable for you.?how can find a balance between light and stability?How can we match the tripod and ballhead?for most Photographers,the manufacturing process of a tripod is as full of mystery as other photographic equipment,and why the tripods appearance looks similar , but the price comes from tens of dollars to thousand dollars.Recetly,author and his friend were honored to be invited to Zhejiang Originality Photography Equipment Co., Ltd when they folk songs to the Hill District.they came to the company tripod factory located in Hongqiao Town, Yueqing City, ,and visited the production process of Jie Bao tripod and Ballhead.

         
 Factory Corner

 Carefully selected raw materials to ensure the quality
  Affected by the lightweight trend,in high-grade tripods are used of aluminum alloy,carbon fiber or basalt fiber as the main raw material,in which,aluminum and carbon fiber materials is the most widely used.Of course, due to differences in the technical strength and cost considerations, different vendors have different in useing raw materials,different ingredients, different production technologies products have dufferent in the stiffness,toughness, and cost, for example to aluminum, different products The price may be between several multiple.
  IN Jie Bao raw materials workshop,all neatly placed aviation aluminum alloy in different specifications of different models and carbon fiber tubing imported from Germany.According to the staff, Jie Bao tripod are adopt aviation aluminum alloys , all produced by the forging process, and compared to cast aluminum alloy, forging aluminum alloy with higher strength and toughness, but also a Shortcomings in difficult process and high cost.By forging aluminum alloy, although need to pay a price in capacity and cost, but the produced tripod will be more stable and durable.

Carefully selected traw materials to ensure the quality

ined parts, raw materials are used in high-strength air aluminum alloy
  In order to control the more sophisticated,Some humble small parts, such as screws, nuts all adopted imported sophisticated quality products.In the 2007 P & E show,Jie Bao's RS series ballhead and other brands won the championship in locking strength of 45Kg at a test site,If not strictly in part of the raw material,it is impossible to win gold medals when face the competitors from home and abroad.
 Sophisticated production processes
 Only at the cost of raw materials is not enough,when we visited the processing plant，Mr. Chen Qingyuan Jie Bao,Chairman introduced "Jie Bao tripod fame in recent years, winning so many praise,are inseparable with the company invested heavily in the introduction of technical personnel and advanced equipment.No first-class technical staff,there is no design-leading products,no improvement in the manufacturing process,Manufacture of performance products is more than an empty talk."

                all metal parts of the process are adopt advanced CNC machine tools.
  in the nearly 2000 square meters metal processing workshop,dozens of CNC machine tools are  neatly lined,while only 10 staff,most equipment basically do not need people to control,the degree of automation is still quite high,the computer designed programs ensure Each link can run in an orderly manner.In the R & D department,jiebao hired a aviation industry retired senior engineer as a technical director to guide and guard the product research and development .
 
Strict quality management
 Parts out from the processing plant,must first  to go through testing of testing personnel ,then enter the next production chain，processed Metal parts,after detection passing ,the surface will be anodized,and be assembled in the assembly shop,At this time, a complete tripod was presented to us.Of course, this tripod is still not the factory, but also through the last pass

 After assembly, Each tripod must go through to the testing of the quality inspection departments, while production processes before are already very strict, but if the last pass found the problem, they will ruthlessly first rework to the production sector, even if Be scrapped, it must not enter the market.
  And compared to the tripod, ballhead of the inspection is more stringent, and standard locking force as long as the slight gap, we must rework. Strict quality management system, greatly reducing product failure rates, but overall cost savings objective
 
  Postscript: Although compared to international top brands, tripod domestic R & D and manufacturing firms  is still a gap, but over the past two years the gap has been getting smaller and smaller. It is understood that in the overseas market, Jie Bao and a number of domestic brands for the excellent price, is being more and more consumers, as long as the unremitting efforts, we have reason to believe that the prospects for domestic manufacturers tripod will be more Bright