Make your own camera case with duct tape

“Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.” — ancient Jedi proverb

Back in the mid 1990s (a golden age IMHO), my friend John made a duct tape wallet from instructions featured in the Beastie Boys’ Grand Royale magazine.

In the spirit of that long dead publication I give you this camera case:

duct tape camera case

My new chocolate colored Canon SD1100 IS came with a paper sleeve to which I added duct tape and spare velcro. It fits the camera better than any case I could have bought.

I put the camera in the sleeve for bulk, then loosely taped the outside. It’s important that you don’t tape everything too tightly or your camera won’t fit well.

A long time ago I did this with my MacBookPro’s paper sleeve* and it worked reasonably well, but I stopped using it because airport security doesn’t like seeing anything wrapped in silvery tape.


* Huh, looking at that old Newshutch blog post I see comments from my new Twitter friend Jeton. Hopefully he approves of this post ;~)

See also: The duct tape DSLR camera bag. Awesome.

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