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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. Techniques by Wire+Tap · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  2. This is great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the site: "with the Game Boy Camera, it's not possible to hand-hold it."

    Wow, all the poor-quality, low-resolution pictures you'd expect from a bargain basement digital camera with none of the portability. This guy is going to make millions!

  3. Infrared photo... It is kind of cool. by AtomicBomb · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just come across a tutorial about near infrared photography. If the gameboy cam are IR sensitive, it will be quite cool. We can even build a "flashnight" with an array of remote control IR LEDs.

    Next time I know how to take a close shot of the penguins without waking them up (I live somewhere in south hemisphere, within very long driving distance to a penguin colony..)

  4. IR coolness! by glebite · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not attach the gameboy viewscreen to sit in front of one eye and aim the camera forwards, attach some high-output IR LEDs to project out and run as a hacked/cheap nightvision?

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  5. 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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  6. You only really need two components by yerricde · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's possible to create reasonably convincing color with only two components: red and cyan. Try it. Turn off your NVIDIA video card's blue gun, or grab an image in GIMP or Photoshop and turn off the blue channel, and see that it affects the image very little (other than giving a yellow cast which can be fixed by copying the green channel into the blue channel). This works because the human eye isn't very sensitive to blue light.

    I'm considering using this fact for image compression on a Game Boy Advance homebrew game.

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  7. 1930's Technicolor ® by cmacd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The very early Technicolor® process only used two colors, at the time it was hard to get pancromatic film. They shot two strips of film, though color filters and combined them for presentaion.

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