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Color Photographs with Game Boy Camera
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.
This is similar to the technique used to add color to pictures of Russia, circa 1863-1944. Images can be found at The Library of Congress's website. The link is: (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html). Enjoy!
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Actually, this is a quite old and well-known method of obtaining color images with a non-color camera. The first video digitiser that I got way back for my Amiga came with 3 filters (R, G and B of course). The main problem was holding the camera and subject perfectly still while capturing the 3 separate shots, otherwise you'd get an effect similar to that of a disaligned RGB beamer.
The biggest logical step made by that individual was the application of the IR filter.
What could actually be interesting would be writing a native GameBoy software to both combine the 3 images and correctly align them if the camera slightly moved during the process, which is something really likely with a GB camera. Keep in mind that you'll have to hold the GB *really* still, put filter 1 in front of it, take picture, repeat 3 times...
Good idea, but you'll need something set up to illuminate the viewscreen with, yet not allow any visible light to leak out the sides and give away your position.
Perhaps that is why the poster indicated he would use some IR LEDs to *illuminate* the targets with near-visible IR? Or perhaps you just didn't read his entire post.