Posted by Sanddancer on 10/09/06 11:16

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:03:38 +0100, Gareth Halfacree
<usenet@halfacree.co.uk> wrote:

>Sanddancer wrote:
>> On the subject of your site. I really don't read much into that orb
>> thing. otherwise my house must be uncredibly haunted. I could do with
>> a poltergeist to tidy up my mess mind. It took me just 4 shots to get
>> this large orb while looking at your website:
>> http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2035/orbdz4.jpg
>>
>> I've had similar results for years with 2 different digital cameras.
>
>And you will for many more years, with many more cameras (digital and
>otherwise). It's dust motes in the air. *All* 'orb' photographs are
>dust motes in the air being magnified by the way the camera lens bends
>light.
>
>All, that is, except 'chains of orbs'. They're not ghosts either;
>they're the wriststrap of the camera dangling in front of the lens and
>being illuminated by the flash.
>
>(Yes, I *know* you know what the orbs are. This post is for the benefit
>of anyone who might be thinking "Woo, ghost evidence!!!111eleventyone)

That's what I've always thought it was. I'm suprised how often they
pop up though as 'evidence' of ghosts.

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