how do you get much better pictures from a 20+ year old game boy Camera? how about marrying a DSLR lens to it? That’s what [ConorSev] did and, honestly, the results are much better than you might expect as [John Aldred] pointed out in his post about the topic. You can check the camera out in the video below.
A 3D printed adapter lets you mount a Canon EF lens to the game boy Camera, a trick that we’ve seen in the past. [ConorSev] looked at the existing adapters floating around, as well as came up with the revised version you see here. There was still the problem of really getting the images off the camera cartridge, however luckily, this isn’t exactly unexplored territory either.
While there might not be anything new with this project, using a high-quality lens on the toy makes for some interesting photographs, as well as you wonder how far you can push this whole idea. Of course, no matter how much of a lens you put on the front, you still have to contend with the original image sensor which has hardly well. Still, we were pleased at how much much better things looked with a high-quality zoom lens.
We bet the original designer of the game boy camera never imagined it would have the kind of zoom ability you can see in the video. We love seeing these little handhelds pushed beyond their limits. Cryptomining? No problem. Morse code? piece of cake.