It’s GAMEBOY filter! Amateur photographer takes incredible images on 20-year-old Nintendo device after attaching its sensor to £200 camera
- Matthew Parrish wanted to use his 20-year-old device for portrait photography
- Film enthusiast fitted Gameboy’s sensor into his £200 Olympus OM10 camera
- A friend of Matthew, who is from Ohio, posted pictures of invention to Twitter
An amateur photographer ingeniously upgraded his Nintendo Gameboy by attaching it to an SLR camera.
Matthew Parrish wanted to use his 20-year-old device for portrait photography so hooked it up to his £200 Olympus OM10 camera.
Now the 21-year-old from Boardman, Ohio, claims the photo quality has vastly improved due to the higher level of exposure.
Ingenious creation: A Gameboy with its sensor attached to an Olympus camera, which allows higher quality shots to be taken
The £200 Olympus OM10 camera which is attached to the 20-year-old Gameboy
Matthew taped the sensor from the Gameboy to a small piece of cardboard, which he then fitted into the film exposure window of the Olympus camera.
He then uploaded the Gameboy camera software and started taking portraits on his newly created DSLR camera using a 50mm lens.
With the modification: A skeleton with a torch on its head and a bearded man with glasses look much crisper with the special attachment
Matthew, from Ohio, claims the photo quality has vastly improved due to the higher level of exposure
Without the modification: A blonde woman with glasses looks much more pixelated in this shot
Matthew’s friend Max Krieger shared images of the invention to Twitter, explaining how it was done.
The post has since been liked and retweeted thousands of times.
Roberto MajorSloth commented: ‘This is how you win at life.’
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The difference in picture quality is show by the crispness of an image of a skeleton with a torch stuck to his head and a man with long hair, a beard and glasses.
Meanwhile, a picture of a woman with blonde hair and glasses is much more pixelated because it was taken by the Gameboy camera without the modification.
It honestly surprised me with how well it worked,’ said Matthew (pictured)
Matthew, who does photography as a hobby, said: ‘It honestly surprised me with how well it worked.’
He said he saw other people do a similar thing on the internet using a telephoto lens but wanted to make something more suitable for portrait photography.
He added: ‘I have been tinkering with things ever since I learned how to use a screwdriver.
‘I broke a lot of things as a kid but I learned from my mistakes and made greater things.
‘Currently I’m working on improving the design of this camera to make it easier to use.
‘I have actually ordered a device online that allows me to extract the images directly from the Gameboy without any degradation to the image quality.’
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