Create An Impact Safe Bouncy Camera Using Sugru
A while back I bought my daughter a Vtech Kidizoom, trying to hook her up on photography. Looking back at the experience, I can say that she is doing pretty well.
On the bright side, she enjoys taking pictures and does a darn fine job too. Of course, being able to come down to daddy's studio with flashes set up does not hurt her fun one bit.
On the "dark" side, the image quality sucks! We thought we could handle it and that the grainy look would be "fun" and "Lomo"y, but even she is a bit annoyed with the noise of the photographs when viewed large.
I came across this video that shows how you can impact-proof a camera using moldable plastic called Sugru. It's kinda like plasticine, only it hardens as rubber, and can take quite an impact. Not sure why they used an ancient Sony Cybershot for the video, but even that old camera will get better results than your standard "kids" cam.
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he used an ancient cyber shot
he used an ancient cyber shot because he doesn't want his children destroying an expensive camera
Ancient?
It may be ancient, but it still have good glass!
Zeiss for the Sony P&S win!
This is a great idea you got
This is a great idea you got here !
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great
I spend some time making my small cam ready for kite photography. Threw it on the grass for a test and it did not work. This looks realy great on the streets. And now throw it up for some realy height :) .
Awesome
Gonna see how tough it is to get some, there is a store in brooklyn
LOL, but it works
As silly as this may look, it really does work. One of the digicams that I let kids play with are covered with strips of styro taped via gaffer's tape... Kids don't care about the looks of the camera for the most part, even if it's a cheap $50 camera, it's still $50 and not disposable.
Dave from iPhotocourse - http://www.iphotocourse.com
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