oscroft
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I'm a big fan of modern Thai cinema but I hadn't heard of that one. I've just tracked down and ordered a copy (of the Thai original), so thanks for that.
Anybody Ever Photograph a Ghost?
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bsdunek
Old Guy with a Corgi
Many years ago, a camera repair friend told me about an older lady bringing in her folder for repair. The bellows was really bad so he replaced it along with the shutter CLA.
Later she came back very upset, as her camera didn't take photos of 'spirits' any more. He had her show him some of the earlier photos of 'spirits', and immediately saw the problem. He apoligized and took her camera in the back. A few minutes with an E-Xacto knife did the trick. He returned the camera to her. She came back in a few days and told him what a great guy he was, as her camera worked fine now.
If you want photos of 'spirits' I can fix your camera for a reasonable price. 😱
Later she came back very upset, as her camera didn't take photos of 'spirits' any more. He had her show him some of the earlier photos of 'spirits', and immediately saw the problem. He apoligized and took her camera in the back. A few minutes with an E-Xacto knife did the trick. He returned the camera to her. She came back in a few days and told him what a great guy he was, as her camera worked fine now.
If you want photos of 'spirits' I can fix your camera for a reasonable price. 😱
tripod
Well-known
How about US jet fighter pilots?
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Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
Not a ghost, but on a different planet sometimes
😱 -- if she finds out, you'll incur the wrath of the Mask. :angel:
BTW, here's a ghost that was mistaken for brand-name glow:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=57741
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
Sssshh. You're going to blow my cover.
squirrel$$$bandit
Veteran
HA ha ha ha awesome!
Nh3
Well-known
I have not photographed a ghost but I did have a pretty weird experience once photographing in a secluded area during winter.
Basically I saw someone dressed in an outfit straight from photos of turn of the century and how he got there and then how disappeared I could never understand. Also on my way back as i passed where I had seen him last time i was overwhelmed with chills and fear and i had to literally run away.
One of the most unusual experiences in my life.
Basically I saw someone dressed in an outfit straight from photos of turn of the century and how he got there and then how disappeared I could never understand. Also on my way back as i passed where I had seen him last time i was overwhelmed with chills and fear and i had to literally run away.
One of the most unusual experiences in my life.
FallisPhoto
Veteran
Looks like a stick and a bunch of cypress needles that were a little too close to a flash and got washed out white.
brachal
Refrigerated User
Given the small size of the posted image, I could see thinking that. If you could see the full-size image, it's pretty clear it's not a stick and needles. The flash did fire on the shot, but it was a very small flash. I'm not saying it's anything supernatural; I just don't know what it is.
Pablito
coco frío
yes that is clearly what it is. those digital p/s cameras have tiny sensors and tons of depth of field, those things are white because they were close to the flash
feenej
Well-known
Nh3, did you get any pictures?
Nh3
Well-known
Not of the person or aberration or whatever it was.
The moment he saw me he turned around and I moved away. I looked back saw his back and that's where i noticed his strange clothes and I took one more step turned around and he had disappeared.
brachal
Refrigerated User
Hmm. Maybe y'all are right.
Terao
Kiloran
I just wish they'd get Flicker out of development hell (the Theodore Roszak book)
JoeV
Thin Air, Bright Sun
I've been both interested in, and amused by, UFO pictures and the associated subculture. Being from Albuquerque, I remember, as a grade-schooler, the UFO flap in the early-mid 1960s in the southwest US. And I needn't mention the entire tourist industry built up around the so-called Roswell incident. I'm a total skeptic, of course, but I enjoy the culture of fanaticism surrounding these things; people are gullible and want to believe in something; in anything.
I've seen reprints of lots of classic UFO pictures; being rather photographically literate I seem to be able to easily identify either outright frauds (hubcaps, pie tins, etc), or dust/debris on the lens and/or film.
While in high school I made my own faked UFO pictures, using a (what else) aluminum pie tin, suspended from a broom handle with black thread, photographed at night using a Vivitar 110 flash camera. I still have several of those prints; I'll have to dig them out and post them here. The pictures appear to represent a metallic UFO flying above the treetops.
Since the advent of the digital camera being ubiquitous in our culture, there are more photographic devices being used than ever before in history. Yet we seem to see the incident rate of believable UFO pictures has dropped to virtually nothing. Not even a good hubcap-tossed-in-the-air shot anymore. Is it because the aliens are staying away? Naw! It's because the dirt, debris and other film and processing artifacts that made these accidental UFOs seem almost believable have now been replaced with point-n-shoot digital cameras with little or no such artifacts, other than out-of-focus dust and moisture on the lens. Perhaps these ghost images we see recently are the contemporary version of the old UFO pictures, generated by artifacts of the image-making process.
~Joe
I've seen reprints of lots of classic UFO pictures; being rather photographically literate I seem to be able to easily identify either outright frauds (hubcaps, pie tins, etc), or dust/debris on the lens and/or film.
While in high school I made my own faked UFO pictures, using a (what else) aluminum pie tin, suspended from a broom handle with black thread, photographed at night using a Vivitar 110 flash camera. I still have several of those prints; I'll have to dig them out and post them here. The pictures appear to represent a metallic UFO flying above the treetops.
Since the advent of the digital camera being ubiquitous in our culture, there are more photographic devices being used than ever before in history. Yet we seem to see the incident rate of believable UFO pictures has dropped to virtually nothing. Not even a good hubcap-tossed-in-the-air shot anymore. Is it because the aliens are staying away? Naw! It's because the dirt, debris and other film and processing artifacts that made these accidental UFOs seem almost believable have now been replaced with point-n-shoot digital cameras with little or no such artifacts, other than out-of-focus dust and moisture on the lens. Perhaps these ghost images we see recently are the contemporary version of the old UFO pictures, generated by artifacts of the image-making process.
~Joe
mhv
Registered User
Who would've thought? 😉
It's still amazing all the literature that exists about ghost pictures, and how easily people were duped.
When I was a kid, I used to devour all of those books on "paranormal." I'm not sure if I believed in it, but the thrills it gave me were leagues ahead of what movies could provide.
I have the impression that the year 2000 has killed all our fanatism about UFOs, ghosts, spirits, etc. The last big thing I can remember is the X-Files, and those went away once the nineties were over. It used to be that you couldn't open a journal without finding yet another abduction story. Now nobody is making money anymore with those stories.
tripod
Well-known
I don't know about that Joe. I'd think instead that if the photos are just hoaxes, there would be more nowadays with the easy digicams. It doesn't even cost you a roll of film and developing to play a prank, yet as you said, the incidences of UFO pics has gone way down since the early 1950's. Yes there were lots of pranks, but some reports just can't be explained by thrown hubcaps. What exactly did show up on radar that those US jet pilots saw and chased?
shakey_slim
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