Thanks! I use a Bitboy to get the photos as BMPs off the camera and wrote a little webapp that recreates them at 10x resolution, adding the colors and those faint scanlines on top.
Its a photo from the GameBoy Camera toy, upscaled and with a duotone color filter applied to add this shade of blue. The original photo is black/white and much smaller, but otherwise identical.
River Wharfe – this one came out strange, having almost no black pixels at all. Maybe something was wrong with the brightness slider and I didn’t notice at the time. 🤷♂️ #GameBoyCamera#Yorkshire
This is a little shop in Rochdale, near Manchester in the UK. It’s a special place because it was here that the Rochdale Pioneers went into business in 1844, kickstarting the modern cooperative movement. They were 28 working-class people, put their savings together and started selling essential products like butter and flour at fair prices to other folks. Ridiculed at first, their business quickly expanded and the rest is history: Today a billion people worldwide are members of cooperatives and 100 million are employed by them. The Rochdale Pioneers didn’t start the first cooperative, but they were one of the first successful ones, inspiring people (myself included) to this day. Today the shop is a museum and I was lucky to visit it last week! #GameBoyCamera#Cooperatives
I bought a BitBoy, which is a little device pretending to be a GameBoy Printer with an SD card slot. You just print the photos from the GB Camera interface and they show up as .bmp files on the SD card. Pretty simple, although a bit time consuming.