Product review: Sugru part 2

Most of the photos on this site are taken with a Sigma DP1 camera. This camera has its quirks, and despite its form-factor is certainly not your typical user-friendly point-and-shoot. It has a very large, unusual sensor and a very sharp lens which make for fine image quality at the expense of speed and ease-of-use.

One of the accessories sold for this camera is an external optical virefinder, an overpriced little plastic thing. I made my own from a flea market camera with the same field of view, a dead flash, hobby store brass, leather, and Sugru.



By this time I had learned a little bit about the material, and feel that this was a better success than my sauce pan repair. By letting the Sugru cure just a few minutes after opening the package it becomes much easier to mold. Most shapes are best created from a base sausage-type form, which can then be formed as it hardens over the next ten or fifteen minutes. Sugru also acts as an excellent putty for filling cracks and imperfections. The grip I added to the camera was smoothed and shaped with a stainless steel ruler, and looks like a commercial product. The viewfinder is more clumsy, but with the Sugru is now well-protected.

The material hardened quickly and the camera and viewfinder are now ready for use.