Game Boy Camera: Can I Make It Take A Colour Photo?

[@MattGrayYES]

I've got a Game Boy Printer too, but I haven't used it in a while! There are more details about what I discovered, and how to download my music in the description!

[@sachingiyer]

Make a video with the printer too

[@FloydBunsen]

Can it print in rgb? If not, is it a thermal printer or does it use ink?

[@OtobongJaya]

@@FloydBunsen Thermal printer, and the print outs are pretty tiny and quite faint. The paper is quite hard to come by due to the small size but some blank receipt papers work.

[@floris3239]

Perhaps you can turn the game boy printer into a colour printer with some sort of multi layer printing technique :)

[@princesschoochoo]

I think you might also be getting some interference from some kind of dithering/halftone algorithm the Gameboy Camera is applying.

[@hypergrip]

And this kids is how Matt Grey became Matt Colour

[@reecewright5138]

I personally prefer gloss gray to Matt gray

[@CJT3X]

🤦🏼‍♀️

[@magic_cfw]

Matt RGB

[@BatataKarambas]

*Gray there really is no preference here, it's his name, so get it right

[@pacomatic9833]

* claps *

[@mistaecco]

I'm more impressed by the fact that you made all the chip tunes, too. Awesome stuff, Matt!

[@roboltamy]

Yeah, the music was awesome

[@JBLewis]

Don't tease us with park bench photos!

[@ncc74656m]

Right???

[@BoterBug]

My thoughts too! Park Bench Reloaded in 2019!

[@12799MaDeuce]

Everything's getting rebooted lately...maybe JJ Abrams will help them bring it back in 2019

[@MAlanThomasII]

The Park Bench: The 8-bit Years

[@aleemjohnson3416]

All the feels!

[@pluto8404]

Polaroid cameras are too main stream for Matt. He is on a whole nother hipster plane.

[@philedwards5703]

It's impressive that you've spent so much time with Tom, working with him on his videos and haven't subconsciously absorbed his style. Rather, you've come up with a format and style that is both fantastic and, as far as I can tell, uniquely yours. Keep up the good work because we dig it!

[@DaffyDaffyDaffy33322]

"Or even your camera if it has a black and white mode" You realize you're suggesting we take our color cameras, convert it to black and white, take R, G, and B pictures with it, and turn it back to color right? Sounds fun, honestly.

[@asronome]

I actually threw together a really precarious windows script that used the screen to illuminate a subject in red, green and blue, took photos with the webcam, and then combined them to produce a pretty dark and washed out color picture (mostly the webcam's fault) a few years ago

[@lewisfilby2394]

2 years later I just posted a question comment before reading this comment. My question was: Do the color filters not completely negate the need for a b/w filter? Wouldn't the result be the exactly the same? I'm probably being dumb

[@DaffyDaffyDaffy33322]

@@lewisfilby2394 actually yeah you probably wouldn't need to do the black and white filter, though it's all in fun anyway. Its too see if we can take three grey images and get color out of them. We're starting with a color camera after all

[@Knight_Astolfo]

neat! I had a gameboy camera... there were some really strange things you could do with it... My mom was upset that I had a digital camera before anyone else in the family (I come from a family of photonerds.) She made me take a family photo with it when I got it, and went out and bought me the printer when she realized that there was no way to get the picture off the camera. Good times, Mister Gray!

[@FENomadtrooper]

By using these 3 filters, we can turn Matt Gray into Matt Colour.

[@frankhan8993]

I can imagine 100 years ago the photographer shouted to the guy on picture "JUST DON'T MOVE WHILE I AM CHANGING THE FILTER"

[@jpe1]

Wait... are you suggesting that I take my phone, which captures perfectly good color images, and put the phone in b&w mode to capture 3 (better 4, add an intensity channel) b&w images through r, g, and b filters, and then laboriously recombine them in Photoshop to form a color image? What a ridiculously pointless thing to do. I LOVE it! Will have to try as soon as there is something better than a grey winter day to photograph.

[@aliciamcdermott5094]

This is so cool! ❤️💙💚

[@jasperiscool]

That is so cool. I knew the technique but with a gameboy camera? Glorious!

[@ashleygchannel]

I love this! Very creative. Also, park bench at the end.. RIP

[@icanfast]

The end is rather sad and touching really.

[@ncc74656m]

Yup. The Park Bench tease was bittersweet.

[@ATee-vx6dm]

How so?

[@pargeterw]

When you said paste onto the RGB layers, you meant to say Channels!

[@ronnybergmann]

From just the first few sounds I recognized the PO20 - how lovely to have that as background for such an 8-bit-ish topic :)

[@mockturtlesuppe]

I think that little snippet at the end was an awfully cruel tease to your loyal viewers. No Tom! No banter! Nevermore!

[@xizar0rg]

That photo of the bukhara dude is incredible. Thanks for linking to it.

[@GRyall]

Many spacecraft have used a similar method to create colour images. One of the Voyager cameras has a wheel which allows one of 8 different filters to be selected for each image.

[@javierbg1995]

Oh, the 8bit guy did a video about the gameboy camera and another about this same technique, but he never tried the two together. I really wished he did, but now I see you did it instead. Great job!!

[@HarriRobins]

You need a Hot Mirror filter to block infared light and get allow only visible light to get to the camera for proper colour images.

[@manas7372]

Matt.. that horse tornado pic was mazing 😂

[@jacobhayes9992]

And this is fantastic, honestly the Tom Scott, Matt Grey, Tech Diff rabbit holes is one of the best I ever fell down.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

I'm most impressed by the fact that the Gameboy photos come out looking like nice pieces pixel art

[@Viewbob_True]

Of course being Christmas time, quality street wrappers make for great filters too!

[@TheFerdi265]

Really liked this video, and especially the music is really great! ChipGlitch sounds absolutely gorgeous!

[@BThings]

I've watched this video before, and I've watched numerous other ones like it. They never get old. I just really love seeing DIY color photography stuff! ❤️💚💙

[@TheSneezingAnouki]

I still cannot comprehend how three different black and white photos combine to make a colour one. Yes, you explained it, and in theory i get it but in practice my brain just kind of breaks

[@ThreeLetters3]

* somehow does a very pixelated low frame rate livestream on a game boy*

[@TrollDecker]

I had a feeling it would be RGB filter sheets after the 8-Bit Guy demonstrated a similar technique with a black-and-white webcam months ago. XD

[@cemerson]

This is how most astrophotography is done - several exposures with different coloured filters (usually several videos and then the frames for each stacked before combining)

[@windhelmguard5295]

yea but those have much better filters and better cameras as well as MUCH longer exposure times

[@qtluna7917]

Always great to see a Gameboy Camera still in use. Now I have the urge of getting my old Gameboy stuff back in use.

[@PinderProductions]

That is a really clever way of taking a colour photo with a black and white camera.

[@jeffreylauwereys7855]

This is a lot more "youtuber-y" then a lot of your stuff. I like the production and voice to the camera. keep at it!

[@agepbiz]

This is so cool!

[@taylorhancock5834]

That's amazing, but your chiptune music sounds like something out of Mega Man or Shovel Knight, and I'm honestly more impressed with it than with the photography, and I'd love to hear more. Great video and great music Matt, and that Park Bench tease was just evil...can't wait to see more from your channel, I love whenever you upload.

[@tomchaney6085]

This made me incredibly happy. Thank you

[@daviddieffenderfer]

I didn't know you wrote music! Sounds great!

[@Northfan42]

This looks like a great, if convoluted way to produce patterns for cross stitch or other needlework.

[@erentar2002]

This was impressive, with the theme tune and production quality! It looks awesome! pls more

[@Regular6782]

I just love that litt6le laugh at the end, lets us all know that you are really doi9ng what you love and enjoying life. Nothing makes me happi9er than seeing people happy.

[@OkiDingo]

I actually bought one of these a month or two ago for ¥300 at a local used game store. Brought back memories of when I had one and a printer.

[@Fiyaaaahh]

This idea deserves so much more views/credit than what it'll probably end up receiving. Amazing!

[@lastnameavailable326]

Brilliant! This is the sort of thing that makes me glad there’s an internet- somebody doing something silly but clever just for the fun of it, and sharing it with the world.

[@reverseturingtest]

Wow, that's great! Definitely want to try this, but with slightly different filters to see what cool effects I can do.

[@kevsthabest]

Really enjoying these new videos Matt! And love the music!

[@hughjass2024]

I love the way you structured the video

[@Individuo80]

In 2001 David Friedman found out that the camera's sensor chip is sensible to infrared rays, so he shot the pics with an infrared filter to get proper color separation. I suppose you used one too.

[@festivite]

Some of these are actually hard to believe. Great job!

[@yourboyremme9503]

Just amazing

[@alfie6098]

I'm loving the new videos Matt. Keep up the good work!

[@CraftsyPenguin]

I had no idea such a thing existed and it brought a smile to my face. Thanks!!

[@vedi0boy]

Liked and subbed. Why haven't I seen your videos in my YT feed until today, this is exactly what I like watching...

[@ikt32]

The chiptune is really catchy!

[@matthew.datcher]

I didn't realize Mat was also a musician. So much talent in one person.

[@plapbandit]

These were awesome. Amazing music too, but some of those built in pictures were terrifying!

[@salmoneye7245]

That was awesome, I like how "simple" it was to get color photos from a Gameboy camera. I wish I had a gameboy camera for my old Gameboy.

[@KenKopin]

This reminds me of the NewTek DigiView rig I had back in the 90's for the Amiga. It used a Cheap (for the time) B&W Video camera, and a motorized color wheel to take really nice color scans.

[@MrAlFuture]

So cool, Matt! Would love to see more of your experiments!

[@Zichqec]

Aaaa I love this kind of music and was really interested to find out what it was, thanks so much for making it available!

[@Regolith86]

This is also how a lot of astrophotography is done. B&W sensors are a lot cheaper and usually have less noise than color sensors with similar MP ratings, so a lot of astrophotographers use filters to generate their color images.

[@Hacker_lyx]

That's actually pretty friggin cool.

[@alfiecurnow7429]

We want more like this please

[@DerekLipkin]

Dude. This is so great. Well done!

[@cosmicreciever]

Here's me thinking 'sweet, a new photography video from matt day... wait no its matt GRAY!!' I'd love to see you do more videos about photography!

[@tsdarc]

love the pocket operator soundtrack

[@arrowinmygluteusmaximus]

I think you can make the pictures look better by also using the non filter version. (Intensity is much more important than precise colors). So use the 3 filtered version to find the ratio of different colors at each pixel, but use the 4th non filter version for the intensity. Question why does the camera seem to produce so many x-es? Is it secretly upscaling even lower resolution pictures?

[@PJWALKER440]

arrow in my gluteus maximus The X shapes are an artefact of ‘beyer dithering’, which uses a pattern of shifting brightness thresholds to give the impression that there are more shades than there really are. The sky in the rocket launch gives a good example. Instead of being a blob of light grey, then mid grey, then a tiny bit of dark grey, there are at least 14 distinct 4x4 patterns creating the sense of a continuous gradient. That said, while Breyer dithering was a thing because it is simple to compute, and is occasionally still used for its aesthetic, there are a bunch of ‘error diffusion’ methods that create results without such obvious patterning.

[@MrRobinhalligan]

Back in the day i had this Digi-View Commodore Amiga 4096 Color Digitizer for my Amiga 2000 that basically did the same thing you pointed a video camera at an image and then rotated a wheel with the rgb filters over the lens.

[@camofelix]

Really liked this Matt!

[@Nixitur]

Holy crap, this is so cool! Also, I am extremely digging these tunes, good stuff!

[@magic_cfw]

I like how videos by like Matt, Tom... other Matt from the Queen's Land are like quality actually thought-out and wel structured stuff with introduction, body and conclusion which I can expect to see on actual TV... meanwhile in the USA its a bunch of people yeeting content onto the internet and screaming an outro.

[@RachelWolfe]

Awesome Matt! I love this video style!

[@Acela2163]

1:51 I swear that sounded like an American Train horn as the music started.

[@rosiefay7283]

No, it sounded in tune.

[@TheSuckerOfTheWorld]

I just jumbled upon this through an imgur-post about pictures from a gameboy camera and instantly recognised you as the guy with the soft serve machine! :-D

[@Morenob1]

Better then most UFO videos today.

[@nicksteffensmeier5776]

This was awesome. Insane they made made a camera for this though

[@sarat6488]

You've evolved from Matt Gray to Matt Color

[@vaalrus]

I had a friend do this back the early 80s… he took a black and white video camera, hooked it up to a primitive video capture device, and would take frames with filters. Then he wrote his own software to combine the images...

[@craigsmith3436]

Amazing content again. Your channel really needs more attention this is amazing....

[@whatelseison8970]

Most excellent.

[@brantwedel]

Missed opportunity! For that last picture on the park bench, a wild Tom should have appeared only in the gameboy version, like a ghost!

[@marioandtyler]

Wow, that is wicked cool! I've always been interested in the Game Boy Camera, even though I've never owned one.

[@MicroBlogganism]

Really liking the stuff you have started putting out lately :D

[@jonnyboris]

Great video! Merry Christmas Matt.

[@brandonmartin-moore5302]

Quite a few people on KZbin have tried this, but none have got results as good as this.

[@danielcoleman6685]

That one of the graffiti is pretty awesome.

[@acabbie]

I recognise that park! My parents ran the cafe there for 30 years before the council decided to do the dirty on them in 2012. Interesting vid, had no idea that digital cameras captured images in 3 colours then combined them.

[@zim_the_vixen]

PO-20

[@tburnip]

This is brilliant

[@fuzzidelic]

That moment when you go to look for the music credits and it's Matt himself! wow

[@RoadkillbunnyUK]

Fab Matt, always love the wacky yet informative and scientifically interesting videos you do. My only complaint? I wish there were more but do appreciate you have both a proper job with salary to do and Tom Scott to manage 😉

[@asailijhijr]

I think this is my first time a Matt Gray appeared in my recommended.

[@MattTester]

Try it yourself®. Always wanted one of these, it seemed incredible at the time. Later got the official PSP camera from Japan, quite good and probably quite rare now. The 8-bit guy got good results doing this with a CCTV camera.

[@teddyboragina6437]

ye when I saw this I was thiking "didn't 8-bit guy do this already"

[@MattTester]

He did a video of the camera and the colour photos with the CCTV camera but he didn't do both! Now dug out my old Game Boy Color just for a laugh.

[@MatthewCobalt]

Nice to see another Matt around, other than Me and Matt Gray

[@amorembalming]

Matt. You're very talented mate. Bravo.

[@enemdisk6628]

Cool editing and music!

[@Boredman567]

2:43 You can see how the GB Camera also captures infrared light here. They're both wearing dark red shirts, but they show up as pink in the image. I assume their dark red clothes also reflect infrared light, which presumably isn't blocked by any of the color filters.

[@marclikespigeons8240]

This is really cool! I want to see more videos like this on KZbin...

[@ReubenMason99]

I'm watching this after a Dodie concert, nice video

[@kasanekona7178]

I *knew* that sounded like PO-20 music!