Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: JamesMcKernan on November 05, 2014, 10:41:00 am
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Hi guys,
First post on the forums and I'm hoping to get a positive reception. I am a 4th year university student studying product design and I am currently doing my final year project. For this project I have to design a complete product of my own conception and right now I am at the research stage. The product I am creating is very much a legitimate design and the research is the key to its fruition.
So what is this product I speak of? Well, I wouldn't be posting on this forum without good reason. The product I am designing is a combination of a trekking pole, for hiking/hillwalking/skiing/any activity involving walking poles, with that of a camera tripod.
I'm posting on this forum to get some feedback from the genuine people in my target market. I would really, really appreciate if you could take the time to fill out my research survey, it should only take a few minutes and hopefully shouldn't bore you. This survey will go a long way to helping me establish the specifications of my product and the requirements and needs of the user. There is a more detailed description of the product and the idea behind it on the survey.
Survey (http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/cptjamesmckernan/hikepod-a-trekking-pole-and-a-camera-tripod/)
Thank you very, very much for taking the time and please, if you have any comments, questions or wish to share an opinion do not hesitate, everything helps.
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I took the survey. It's difficult to answer the "like" and "dislike" questions without seeing a prototype or mockup of some sort, but I did my best. :)
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Yeah I know, as it's just the research stage I don't have a detailed design plus it's hard to properly convey a detailed idea to people from so many different background. understandable. Thanks very much for answering!
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There are several on the market already I was looking on Amazon at them sometime ago. Several trekking poles have removable ends with a tripod screw mount for a camera. I took the survey.
Alan
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There was a recent kickstarter project (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1312251870/trailpix-ultralight-tripod) that utilised walking sticks to make a light weight tripod that was very minimal to carry.
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It's hard to see how a walking pole can be a tripod - perhaps you mean monopod? And, as you probably know, a trip to REI will reveal lots of these for sale. Perhaps you are not trying to do something new, just better, but I thought I'd mention it.