Photography on game consoles

[rvtr]

Share any photos you've taken on any game consoles!

Fancy cameras are nice, but why spend hundreds of dollars on a camera when you could buy a game console? DSi, 3DS, gameboy, something else? Sure, the cameras aren't exactly good, but they've got a nice aesthetic/feel to them that nothing else seems to bring. Plus you can play games when you're bored of taking photos.

I also need an excuse to post my thousands of DSi photos...

Here are some I've taken on my DSi this summer.

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[DragonMals]

Okay these are some impressive photos taken FROM A DSI. How are you able to capture such high quality pics?

 

[rvtr]

Okay these are some impressive photos taken FROM A DSI. How are you able to capture such high quality pics?

I find that the DSi is really good if you're in the right lighting. You've got late evening as the sun starts to set in the first 2, then the subway station in the last 2. I feel like that slightly dim and dull lighting is a sweet spot.

I didn't use this for the photos above, but TWL EVA is a good tool as well. Yeah, no matter how weird it seems, factory test software really is a good way of taking photos.
Evaluation Menu --> CAMERA --> Easy Eva.
Very good options for changing the resolution, exposure, sharpness, white balance, etc. I haven't played around with it too much, but it seems to be a lot better than any other programs. You don't have to worry about natural lighting so much because you can change it on the console. You just have to make sure you have a good resolution. Don't be like me and accidentally set it to 176x144 QCIF for an entire vacation and realize the "nice" photos are too tiny to see...

My only good test photo is my laptop keyboard, and even with just that you can see how clear everything is (just ignore the grain). I could never get something like that through the built in camera app.

Also I've noticed TWL EVA can mess up if you move the camera too much, but it can create cool effects.

 

[Ryccardo]

Yeah, there's no good reason any camera should perform badly in good light, consider the "cheap" (250 € class) digital cameras of 2000 were barely better than this (but came with a proper flash for that reason, at the cost of only getting 20 photos or so on a pair of AAs, not like the integrated storage was much larger), that you can still buy cheapass VGA cameras new and not NOS, and that disposable cameras (also better but for other reasons) have been the best sellers of film since well before the former products were invented





Sometimes the blur just makes it better


And of course, another perk of the 23DSi is that it also comes with an editor:

 

[DragonMals]

I find that the DSi is really good if you're in the right lighting. You've got late evening as the sun starts to set in the first 2, then the subway station in the last 2. I feel like that slightly dim and dull lighting is a sweet spot.

This makes me wish that I can get mine fixed, but someone already helped me get this one covered. Thwh said that I can potentially fix my DSi by changing the port from it's special us cable to a USB-C, but I don't have any idea on how to do that cause I don't have any soldering experience.

 

[rvtr]

If only there was no glare for the first one...

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[rvtr]

Very few cars downtown this morning. I wish I took more photos of empty roads.

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[SylverReZ]

Very few cars downtown this morning. I wish I took more photos of empty roads.

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Nice photos.

 

[rvtr]

9 macbooks in the last pic. Every day I go into coop there's another one on the table.

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[SylverReZ]

9 macbooks in the last pic. Every day I go into coop there's another one on the table.

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What program did you use on your DSi or whatever to take quality photos like these?

 

[rvtr]

Looks very cool. What program did you use on your DSi or whatever to take quality photos like these?

These are just Nintendo's camera app. I was lazy lol

 

[zekro94]

You made me look at some photos I took 10 years ago with my dsi, imagine looking back at those times with some photos you forgot you took. But yeah, it was alright for the time it released

 

[rvtr]

You made me look at some photos I took 10 years ago with my dsi, imagine looking back at those times with some photos you forgot you took. But yeah, it was alright for the time it released

Love the second pic! Has a nice 2000s dusty feeling to it.


Also went out with some friends today and took more photos.

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[miagique]

here's my contributions i guess, i don't take photos that often.

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[zekro94]

Love the second pic! Has a nice 2000s dusty feeling to it.


Also went out with some friends today and took more photos.

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Well I took those in 2014 when I lived in italy, sicily to be precise. Here's some from an island near there

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[Fien]

Past year I took some Mii photos using the AR camera function when I got my 3DS

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[Fien]

I tried to take some pictures with my 3DS, with the normal camera function instead of "Mii Photos". But the picture quality is really bad... it's not near the DSi in the OP

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These are taken on "Neeltje Jans" island:

The odometer hitting the next thousand

My favorite group of Geese I tried to take a picture when there where eating food I gave them, but the 3DS crashed at that moment

 

[miagique]

mister fox

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this fox is actually a different one from the last one i posted, since that one was a gift to my mom. i really like foxes too though so i wanted to get a similar one lol