Huawei recently a smartphone that has a 40-megapixel camera. That means photographs taken on it will have a whopping 40,000,000 pixels and will be incredibly clear. Now compare that to Nintendo’s humble Game Boy camera, which rocked a 128 x 128 pixel CMOS sensor. Images taken with the Game Boy Camera come in a mere 39,983,616 pixels short of the pictures taken with the brand new Huawei.
A lack of pixels does not mean a lack of magic. Nintendo is amazing at inspiring its fans to do amazing things with the products it brings to market. You only have to look at the Brand New Nintendo Labo to see how true this is. A mere 128 x 128 can still spark the imagination, and with that spark, Bastiaan Ekeler started a fire on the god-damned moon. Yes, he used his Game Boy Camera to take pictures of the moon, and they look sick.
To achieve his moon shots and a whole host of other sick shots Ekeler had to hack into his Game Boy Camera and hook it up to a Canon EF lens mount. To find out how he did it click here. His results were so good that he was even able to get a nice bokeh effect, which has now become a must-have feature on the latest flagship smartphone cameras.