Of all the low-resolution digital cameras from the 1990s, none has had the lasting cultural impact of the monochromatic, 0.014-megapixel Nintendo Game Boy Camera. Romanian video game technology company, Epilogue, has turned the Game Boy Camera into a webcam, offering nostalgia-infused fun for teleconferences. [Read More]
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TNT used a drone during an NBA game last night between the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers, prompting an angry reaction from basketball fans. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-05-04 20:24
A cricketer was knocked to the ground by a Spidercam during a live game in a nasty incident that could have seen him seriously injured. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-12-28 18:23
A 3D-printable adapter allows fans of the Game Boy Camera to use small CS-mount interchangeable lenses with it, which also opens the door to adapting much larger optics to the camera first made available in 1998. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-12-06 23:41
Game Boy and camera enthusiast, Christopher Graves, fused his two passions to create the Game Boy Camera M, a mirrorless Game Boy camera with a sleek design. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-14 14:39
Released in 1998, the Nintendo Game Boy Camera was many people's first foray into digital photography. While it couldn't offer the resolving power of contemporaneous cameras like the Nikon Coolpix 900 and the Canon PowerShot Pro70, both of which offered optical zoom and roughly 1MP resolution, the 0. dpreview.com »
2022-05-06 20:40
Photographer Gordon Laing from Camera Labs and Dino Bytes has released a special episode dedicated to one of the strangest digital cameras released in the 90s - The Nintendo Game Boy Camera. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-05-05 23:23
My name is David Windestal, and in this video and article, I will share how you can hack and modify a Game Boy Camera to mount serious camera lenses in order to shoot amazing lo-fi photos. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-04-06 20:53
The Analogue Pocket has finally arrived after numerous delays. And a new announcement confirms the device will be fully compatible with Nintendo's Game Boy Camera, released back in 1998. For those unfamiliar with the Analogue Pocket, it's a handheld device that looks like a modern Game Boy. dpreview.com »
2021-12-15 18:50
Retro Game Couch made this 3-minute video showing how you can convert an old Game Boy Camera into a “modern” webcam. It may not have the best resolution — it’s 8-bit, after all — but it will certainly guarantee you a lot of attention in your next Zoom meeting. Why would you want to do […] petapixel.com »
2021-07-27 17:23
An engineer has figured out a way to bring the Game Boy Camera into the twenty-first century with a DIY wireless adapter that allows him to easily transfer all the images taken with the aged handheld gaming console camera to his smartphone. petapixel.com »
2021-07-09 19:47
Tyler O’Neill, a professional baseball outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals (MLB), gave camera operators a bit of a headache when he shattered a camera lens with a foul ball he hit against Miami Marlins pitcher Sandy Alcantara in yesterday’s game. dpreview.com »
2021-04-07 19:29
Hardware modder, retro gaming enthusiast and Everyday Carry co-founder Bernard Capulong has come to the rescue of an anonymous Redditor who recently expressed their desire for pettiness on the social media platform. dpreview.com »
2020-09-04 22:25
A couple of days ago a user on r/Gameboy asked the community if there was any way to turn his Game Boy Camera into a functioning webcam so that (in his words) “I can be an a** to people I don’t respect. petapixel.com »
2020-09-04 16:31
The Game Boy Camera was never meant to be a serious piece of photographic equipment, so what happens when you pair the Nintendo Game Boy peripheral with a serious piece of glass to take some portraits? Just ask Sam McKenzie, of YouTube channel 3D Printor, who took it upon himself to adapt a Tamron 70–200mm zoom lens to the 0. dpreview.com »
2020-08-21 18:12
One of the earliest ways of creating color photos was by combining black-and-white photos shot using red, green, and blue filters. Matt Gray recently decided to use this technique to shoot color photos using his Game Boy Camera. petapixel.com »
2018-12-26 22:01
Why? The better question: Why not? There's an unlikely vintage camera enjoying something of a resurgence these days: 1998's 0. 5MP Game Boy Camera. Attached to a game cartridge, Game Boy Camera brought digital photography to the youth 2 bits at a time. dpreview.com »
2018-06-05 14:00
We’ve seen the Game Boy Camera used with a telescope and with smartphone lenses, but photographer Bastiaan Ekeler did something even more unusual: he designed and built a Canon EF lens mount for his. petapixel.com »
2018-06-04 17:32
Astrophotographer Alexander Pietrow recently made some unusual photo history: he is apparently the first person ever to photograph the Moon and Jupiter using a Game Boy Camera. First released in 1998, the Game Boy Camera is a monochrome, 2-bit camera that packs a 128×112-pixel CMOS sensor. At the time of its introduction, it was the […] petapixel.com »
2017-07-05 19:32
We've seen a lot of research lately that uses neural networks to upsample low resolution images and the results have been impressive – even a little creepy. Google recently showcased a system that can turn a low resolution 8x8 input image into a 32x32 sample that's remarkably close to the original image. dpreview.com »
2017-02-21 12:00
Some of us were thrilled to be reunited with the Game Boy Camera of our childhood. Others? Less thrilled. Watch as DPR staff revisit the Game Boy Camera – or in some cases, pick it up for the very first time. dpreview.com »
2016-10-27 14:00
Throwback Thursday: Game Boy Camera It's probably no surprise that you won't find a review or a score for the Game Boy Camera in DPReview's archives. Even by 1998 standards, the Game Boy Camera was a bit underwhelming in terms of technology. dpreview.com »
2016-10-27 14:00
Super Mario Party Jamboree for Nintendo Switch features a fun yet challenging minigame about capturing precise street photography moments. [Read More]
YouTuber Andrew Levitt painstakingly recreated all 46 individual shots in the trailer for the Grand Theft Auto VI video game. [Read More]
Canadian film photographer Dmitri Tcherbadji of Analog Cafe has been on a creative kick lately. Alongside his brilliant, operational instant film camera constructed using gingerbread, he has also helped develop a free web game built for analog shooters that tests the player's knowledge of black and white film stocks. [Read More]
The fantasy-themed photography game Alekon that released on Steam in 2021 is coming to Nintendo Switch.
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Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography is an educational video game that teaches Japanese to English-speaking players and uses photography to help make language learning fun. [Read More]
Sony has announced that 35mm, a post-apocalyptic photography game originally launched for PC in 2016, is coming to the Playstation 4 in March. The story follows two travelers as they try and survive and document their harsh world. [Read More]