Velbon (full name: Velbon Tripod Co., Ltd.) is a

manufacturer Manufacturing is the creation or Production (economics), production of goods with the help of equipment, Work (human activity), labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the secondary se ...

photographic Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many ...

accessories, specialising in tripods. The company is based in

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

. It was established in 1955 as Mitsuboshi Co., Ltd.. The trademark "Velbon" was registered in 1958. The company name is a combination of Japanese pronunciation of 'very' and the .

Products

Velbon produces tripods,

monopod A monopod, also called a unipod, is a single staff or pole used to help support cameras, binoculars, rifles or other precision instruments in the field. Camera and imaging use The monopod allows a still camera to be held steadier, allowing ...

tripod head A tripod head is the part of a tripod (photography), tripod system that attaches the supported device (such as a camera) to the tripod legs, and allows the orientation of the device to be manipulated or locked down. Modular or stand-alone tripod ...

s, and other stands and accessories for

camera A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. As a pivotal technology in the fields of photograp ...

s, video cameras and smartphones. Velbon Sherpa 600R camera tripod.jpg, Velbon Sherpa 600R camera tripod Sigma DP2 Merrill on Velbon mini tripod.jpg, Velbon mini tripod Velbon Monopod.jpg, Velbon RUP-43 monopod Werkzeug Nikon D7200.jpg, Velbon pan/tilt converter Velbon-dx-888.jpg, Velbon DX-888 Digital tripod

Factories

The manufacturer has a factory in

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

. It also opened factories in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

and

over the years. Its former factory in Akeno, Yamanashi, Japan, was purchased and became an artists' space in 2020.

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* Photography equipment manufacturers of Japan Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo Japanese companies established in 1955 {{photography-stub