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Color Photographs with Game Boy Camera

Posted by michael on from the improvise-adapt-and-overcome dept.

An anonymous submitter sends in: "For the first time, the Game Boy Camera has been used to take COLOR Photographs. It's the Game Boy Camera Color Photography Project." The previous slashdot story that this reminds you of is this one about digichromatography.

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  1. Re:IR coolness! by uchi · · Score: 2, Informative

    The CCD in the Gameboy camera only picks up infrared light which is near visible(red) light - which is approx. 780 nm i believe. The infrared light emitted by humans and animals would not be perceptable by the contraption, I think.

  2. gameboy camera pics by friscolr · · Score: 4, Informative
    that's nice and all, but it's not like it's a photo of a supermodel.

    seriously though, i remember seeing a webpage about a guy using his gameboy as a webcam (the aforementioned website, http://www.lunacy8m.com/, does this as well) and he also had colour photos taken with 3 filters. That was at least a few months ago and definitely before October 2001, so it would have been the first. can't seem to find the site anymore, though.

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    1. Re:gameboy camera pics by friscolr · · Score: 4, Informative
      yes i get to respond to my own post!

      ten more minutes of searching and i found the site i was thinking of:
      Gameboy Camera Parallel Port Interface
      website features colour photographs taken using the gameboy camera, though since it didn;t use an ir filter the images appear washed out. Also has a lot of other info about hacking the gameboy camera.

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  3. Re:IR coolness! by Radnor · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wonder what kind of picture would come up if you used a Photon micro-light that emitted IR? Here's what their web page says about the IR light:

    "Used by members of the Secret Service, this Photon light creates a powerful infrared beam invisible to the naked eye. Rated at 11mW, this little light is quite a bit more powerful than your average IR illuminator. When used in conjunction with night vision equipment, it will illuminate a large area. This Photon light is ONLY useful when used with night vision equipment or other equipment sensitive to infrared light."

  4. Re:Techniques by staili · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually that link to digichromatography tells also about that same.