You Can 3D Print This Game Boy Camera Upgrade That Makes It Compatible With Real Lenses

Next 12 months marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the Game Boy Camera’s debut, and regardless of its very restricted capabilities—even for 1998—there are nonetheless devoted Game Boy Camera photographers that love its pixelated aesthetic, and who will love this 3D-printable custom shell that makes it suitable with correct lenses.

For lots of people, the Game Boy Camera was the first digital digital camera they ever owned, as its $90 price ticket at launch was significantly cheaper than the true digital cameras obtainable on the time (with worth tags nearer to $1,000). How Nintendo bought a digital digital camera into shoppers’ fingers for $90 was simple: the Game Boy Camera snapped pics with an extremely restricted 128 x 128-pixel CMOS sensor in simply 4 shades of grey. That can be the equal of 0.001434-megapixels if in comparison with the capabilities of the digital cameras we now have in the present day.

But simply as there are nonetheless devoted followers of retro gaming regardless of the restricted graphics of these decades-old titles, there are nonetheless plenty of folks on the market taking pictures with the Game Boy Camera, and seeking to improve its capabilities, with out sacrificng its lo-fi aesthetic.

That’s what the Camera+ from 2BitToys guarantees. It’s a alternative shell for the Game Boy Camera that improves the ergonomics of taking pictures with a Game Boy whereas additionally including the flexibility to simply connect actual digital camera lenses and use filters with the accent. The alternative shell is 3D-printable, and is designed to “reuse as many parts from your original cart as possible.” It even assembles utilizing the Game Boy Camera’s authentic screws, and the improve is totally reversible should you’d relatively put the Game Boy Camera’s guts again into its authentic shell at a later level.

You should purchase the STL and STP 3D printing recordsdata for the Camera+ from Ko-Fi for round $12 (£10), however should you intend to make use of it with CS-mount lenses (sometimes used on 16-millimeter film cameras, in addition to CCTV safety cameras) you’ll additionally must drop ~$5 on a five-millimeter C-CS lens adaptor, plus some robust glue to carry it in place.

The improve isn’t going to make photos snapped by the Game Boy Camera seem like they’ve as a substitute come from a dear mirrorless digital camera, however it’s going to give Game Boy Camera photographers extra artistic freedom in relation to framing, giving them the flexibility to make use of zoom or wide-angle lenses, and even filters, for these desirous to deliver a little bit coloration to the accent’s very restricted palette.