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How To Make (or Buy) and Use A Ghost Hunting Camera
Digital cameras are affordable, easy to use, inexpensive to capture a large quantity of
photos, plus allow for almost instantaneous examination of images. However, many
people who are ghost hunting do not know how to use their camera properly which results
in photographs containing dust orbs, orange haze and a wide array of light anomalies that
are not ghosts at all. Buy An IR Converted Ghost Hunting Camera
Having previously demonstrated that most orbs found in pictures are actually caused by
dust in front of the lens reflecting the camera's flash, we also showed how using digital
cameras' night time settings create many of the hazy, blurry, and light anomaly-filled
photographs people believe are ghosts. So, we conceptualized how you can make and
use a ghost hunting camera that should not capture dust orbs. Plus, we'll show you how to
eliminate
blurs, orange haze, and light anomalies by using an Infrared Illuminator.
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A good ghost hunting camera will not be able
to record false orbs. To do this, we needed to
alter our ghost hunting camera so it would be
more sensitive to the infrared spectrum. Most
digital cameras contain an IR-cut filter which
blocks out part of the near-infrared spectrum.
By simply removing this piece of glass, we
expanded the ability of our ghost hunting
camera to be able to see between 340 nm
(ultraviolet light) and 1200 nm. This allowed
the camera to see approximately 500 nm
more
within the IR spectrum. (To learn more
about how to do this, visit Ghosts Camera.)
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When operating the camera, we do not want to use
a flash unit. It is the flash that can illuminate dust
particles, so it was important to make our camera
more sensitive to low-light environments in order to
reduce or eliminate false orbs. Instead of using the
camera's flash, we prefer
to use an (IR) Infrared
illuminator. Our illuminator is inexpensive and a
simple black-light bulb mounted in a clamp light
shroud. This fixture can be found at most hardware
stores for cheap.
See: Full Spectrum Lighting
Not only did we want to eliminate orbs but the IR
capabilities (similar to some video camcorders)
expanded the range of the camera's vision,
potentially allowing for a better chance at capturing
ghostly phenomena. See:
Ghost Hunting
Cameras
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Above:
Photograph of our altered camera
mounted on a mini-tripod with our
A/C blacklight illuminator.
Left:
If you would rather just buy an IR-seeing ghost hunting camera, check out our Fringe Technology store! |
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Our digital camera for this experiment was an old,
discarded 2.1 megapixel Fuji Finepix 2300. The
IR-cut filter came off with some prying. It is likely
that other digital cameras can be altered just with a little patience and skill.
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Right:
Our altered Fuji
2300 camera.
Left:
We circled the IR-cut
filter, which has a
red hue, and was
mounted upon the
camera's CCD chip
(the sensitive eye of
the camera).
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Once you have made your digital, ghost hunting camera and
picked up a tripod, black-light bulb and clamp light, you are
ready to experiment with shooting ghost photographs in dark
or
low-light environments. The following article will explain
how to properly use your new ghost hunting camera:
Photographing Ghosts
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Related Ghost Hunting Camera Articles:
Ghost Pictures and Exif Data
Dust Orbs
Dust Orb Video
Get Rid of Dust Orbs
False Apparition Ghost Pictures
False Energy Ghost Pictures
Ghost Photography
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Copyright 2010 Angels & Ghosts, LLC
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