Random: How To Take Photos Of The Moon With The Game Boy Camera

Lunartic!

Insanely cool!

This just solidifies my hypothesis that the Game Boy Camera is the ultimate production tool for art. Mona Lisa, Starry Night, Whistler's Mother? They should burn all those obsolete oil canvases and replace them with highly superior two-colour pixelated reproductions printed on sticker paper.

Anything less would be an insult to art.

@Solid_Stannis Neil Young used a Game boy Camera to take the picture used for the Album cover for Silver & Gold.

@ballistic90 I did not know that! Very cool pics of the moon haha. Love that old camera.

That's some delicious dithering.

That's both really cool, and the epitomy of a slow news day...

I still have my Game Boy camera as well, so maybe it's time to find me a telescope...

This is really cool, thanks for bringing it to our attention NLife! : )

I don't think the GameBoy camera was considered decent back in its day. It was consider what it was, a camera for the Game Boy an it's for shades of gray. I'm just mentioning that because I always find it funny that just because something archaic is old, it becomes a state of the art representation of the time, to people of the future. But it was a cheap $50 add-on for a ten year, under powered hand held.

Cool.

GameBoy camera was the best!

lol

Y tho

@j-life Gameboy actually had great graphics comparible to the NES, and such systems, despite the four shades. (Link's Awakening actually had better graphics then either NES Zelda game.) I think it's unfair to call it "underpowered."
Heck, some could call the NES or GB underpowered, just 'cause they're 8-bit, but their graphics were awesome conpared to the likes of Atari. And honestly, I find their games more enjoyable then recent PS4 games.

@Beau_Skunk That's not the point. Today, and the past few days I've been playing Game Boy, Super Mario Land, from 1989, and thinking about how much more powerful it is than video game systems like the Atari, etc. And how in a relative term, people in the Atari era would be like wow, at the Game Boy's power in 1989.

It's all relative, and the original Game Boy was a ten year old hand held in 1999, weaker than other handhelds that came out at the time it was out like the Game Gear, Lynx.

And the point of my post is the human tendency to look at in this case, a $60 camera for that ten year old, 4 shades of gray, very low resolution Game Boy, and somewhat assume looking back that such a camera was decent technology back then.

A younger person reading that now would be like, "Oh interestin, this was acceptable to people back then?" When at most it was something that someone might buy by chance, or curiosity, and think that's neat, and rarely ever use it again. And those without it, if they came across someone with one, probably not giving it even half a second of a thought. I think that's closer to the reality in terms of the technology, not to say that people would hate it.

It would be like if someone 18 years from now did a review on one of the cheapest Android phone from 2007 that was relaunched in 2017, and saying that despite how slow it was, and how bad the image quality of the camera was, it was decent technology to us in 2017.

@j-life The difference is, the Game Boy Camera wasn't really "slow" like outdated cellphones, and such. In fact ironically, old games thanks to their low tech' like that didn't have slow loading screens, and such. So advanced technology case in point doesn't always equal a greater product. This is why color handhelds like the battery-guzzling, and fragile to drop Atari Lynx, and Game Gear didn't outdo the Gameboy, as despite it's limitations, it was overall more fun to use, stronger, and had a more impressive battery life.

Also, it was surprising how many cool animated menu screens, easter eggs, features, minigames, customizations, trick lenses, and such were actually in the 8-meg Gameboy camera cartridge. It has more features then honestly the 3DS camera does.