My Game Boy Camera from 1998 takes black & white photos. I’ve found a way to take colour photos with it!
Matt Gray | mattg.co.uk | @unnamedculprit
I made both music tracks, you can download them here:
ChipGlitch is made entirely with a Teenage Engineering PO-20 Arcade:
I came across Andrew and Jen taking photos photo by the blue house and took their portrait with the game boy!
How I download images off the Game Boy Camera
My Game Boy Camera photos on Flickr:
I bought these filters to take the photos with:
Sergeĭ Prokudin-Gorskiĭ – Emir Bukharskii. Bukhara
Other things to note:
– The camera doesn’t seem to have an infrared filter. Colours may come out better if you use one too.
– My RGB filters were cheap and not exactly the right shades of each colour, so I would have had slightly better results with proper filters too.
– I have a Game Boy Printer but haven’t used it in a while
– I realise there are other ways of getting the data off the Game Boy Camera, including multiple boards that plug into the game link port and pretend to be a printer.
Find me elsewhere on the internet:
~Kit I Use Regularly~
Sony RX100M2:
Snapchat Spectacles:
GoPro Hero 4/5:
DJI Osmo Camera:
Tascam DR-10x Audio Recorder:
Røde NTG2 Mic:
Røde Smartlav+ Mic:
All Amazon links are affiliate links which give me a small percentage of what you pay them as a tip for sending you their way. It doesn’t cost you more.
That is SO COOOLL
This is so good!
Thats Amazing 😃
Good idea
That was really cool
How did you keep the Gameboy secure with the tripod? Awesome video btw!
When a camera mount for panoramic is used, you'd be able to up the resolution of the camera.
Hey Matt, nice video! I made one on this exact topic a little while back. It’s a pretty fun technique. 🙂
ты здорово придумал!
It's weird, the limitations of the gameboy camera (i.e. the very low resolution and the 4 tone color scheme) make the end result photos look better than most (consumer grade) cameras that came out around the same time.
That was very interesting.
I suppose since the screen isn't backlit you could scan the screen on a flatbed (that is if you don't have the gubbins to extract the files).
Shame you had to go through such a long winded process. I take photos and get digital copies using my Gamecube and sd media launcher.
Great content.
I noticed it said you composed the music yourself? Any chance of a video about that?
Holy shit… This camera is awesome for making pixel art =o
Very nice!
EmanGamer approves of creative gameboy camera usage.
Awesome video, good job!
but why?
Блять, насколько надо быть ебанутым даунито, чтобы дрочить на устаревшую ещё 20 лет назад игрушку и делать фотки. Фотки на геймбой. На геймбой, сука! Это же блядскиц набор пикселей! Сука, ты их распечатаешь и на стену повесишь? Или мелкой плиткой выложишь мозаику своего ебала, чтобы дрочить на него? Ептваюмать, насколько же уебищна твоя жизнь, что ты занимаешься такой ебатой. Сними бабу, чувак, тебя отпустит.
I actually bought one of these a month or two ago for ¥300 at a local used game store. Brought back memories of when I had one and a printer.
So cool dude. Really nice
Here's me thinking 'sweet, a new photography video from matt day… wait no its matt GRAY!!' I'd love to see you do more videos about photography!
Saw this video on the article on russian news website
Wow, that is wicked cool! I've always been interested in the Game Boy Camera, even though I've never owned one.
This is also how a lot of astrophotography is done. B&W sensors are a lot cheaper and usually have less noise than color sensors with similar MP ratings, so a lot of astrophotographers use filters to generate their color images.
The 8-Bit Guy wants to know your location.
The chiptune is really catchy!
Clickbait
Is that mistletoe in that tree or something rather less seasonally appropriate?
PO-20 <3 That arpeggio is just /fun/. And the photos came out lovely!
You can also do this with the technicolor technique so you only take 2 shots instead of 3. Red and Green filtered images, combine tinted cyan-green and red-orange in photoshop
This is mint
Try using magenta cyan and yellow and then black. In print making we use them and they make more realistic colours.
This is an awesome project though.
I didn’t know you made music, Matt. It’s pretty good!
Brilliant! This is the sort of thing that makes me glad there’s an internet— somebody doing something silly but clever just for the fun of it, and sharing it with the world.
Wait… are you suggesting that I take my phone, which captures perfectly good color images, and put the phone in b&w mode to capture 3 (better 4, add an intensity channel) b&w images through r, g, and b filters, and then laboriously recombine them in Photoshop to form a color image? What a ridiculously pointless thing to do. I LOVE it! Will have to try as soon as there is something better than a grey winter day to photograph.
Holy crap, this is so cool!
Also, I am extremely digging these tunes, good stuff!
Nice format
here's the same hack from 2001 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20060218175317/http://www.ruleofthirds.com:80/gameboy/process.html
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/11/08/009200/color-photographs-with-game-boy-camera
also mentions a way to improve the pictures even further with an additional filter 😉
From just the first few sounds I recognized the PO20 – how lovely to have that as background for such an 8-bit-ish topic 🙂
In a similar vein but in a spatial sense: considering the fact that the single CCD sensors ought to be not that small, could you move the gameboy by sub-pixel distances and get a "higher res" image by combining them?
I didn't realize Mat was also a musician. So much talent in one person.
Hey Matt, have you considered taking multiple shots with the camera, and stitching them together to make a larger mosaic of sorts?
And now to make a hacked-together mechanism that automatically cycles through the filters and takes photos.