X284c2 Modular Center Column by Lily Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Camera and Photography Equipment Design Competition Category.
SilverPhotography Equipment· 2025
X284c2 Modular Center Column
by Lily Zhang
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Photography Equipment Category
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About X284c2 Modular Center Column
Urban landscape photography requires subtle height adjustments, necessitating a raisable center column. However, this prevents the camera from lowering to ground level and reduces stability in strong winds. Photographers currently need multiple tripods for different scenarios. The goal is to create a single versatile tripod to handle various shooting conditions.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
X284c2 Modular Center Column is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. X284c2 Modular Center Column is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. X284c2 Modular Center Column is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Where to Get It
Modular Carbon Fiber Photography Tripods
We engineer professional tripods that adapt to your creative vision. Our modular center columns, carbon fiber construction, and precision CNC components deliver stability and versatility for every shooting scenario.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Urban landscape photography requires subtle height adjustments, necessitating a raisable center column. However, this prevents the camera from lowering to ground level and reduces stability in strong winds. Photographers currently need multiple tripods for different scenarios. Our goal is to create a single versatile tripod to handle various shooting conditions.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Product collapsed dimensions: 435mm x 125mm x 125mm
Product expanded dimensions: 1570mm - Tags
- Photography, Tripod, Still life, Modular, Video, Carbon fiber, Low angle
- Production Technology
- To ensure greater weather resistance and portability of the tripod, we utilize CNC technology to process the main components and apply anodizing to enhance corrosion resistance, making it suitable for harsh environments like the seaside. The legs of the tripod are made of carbon fiber tubing, maintaining rigidity while reducing weight.
- Inspiration
- Urban landscape photography requires adjustable camera heights, needing a raisable center column. However, this prevents lowering the camera to ground level and reduces stability in strong winds. Photographers often need multiple tripods for different scenarios. Our goal is to create a single tripod versatile enough for all conditions.
- Project Duration
- The project was initiated in Shenzhen in January 2022 and completed in Shenzhen in June 2022.
- Operation Flow
- We designed the tripod's center column into two modules connected by a rotating locking ring. Users simply need to loosen the locking ring, then press and hold the unlock button underneath the locking ring with two fingers to separate the tripod head connection module from the center column module. After removing the center column module, they can attach the tripod head connection module to the tripod to complete the switch.
- Team Members
- Industrial Designer: Liu Taorong
Structural Designer: Yang Jun
Project Manager: Wang Hong
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