Anyone ever seen a ghost?

[TimberWolf]

Maybe ghosts couldn't be picked up by film but can by the CCDs in digital cameras so that's why there are 'photos now but not before 2005.

I take it you are joking/drunk?

[BA to the Stars]

I've encountered a few spirits in the pub

IGMC

[Bwana]

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[TimberWolf]

I too thought that RC was joking (or taking the pi55) when I first read his comment about ccd's and photos before 2005. But then it occured to me that mobile phones with cameras have only really become commonplace in the last few years, and I would imagine that phone-cameras are far more common than cameras (that are just a camera and nothing else), and also, a person is more likely to be carrying a phone-camera than a camera, so it could massively increase the chances of someone capturing an image of a ghost.

Yeah, and image editing software is a lot more common now too. Much easier than multiple exposures and all that messing around in a dark room.

[RichardCranium]

Film cameras require photons to hit the chemicals in the film and release their energy to change the chemical properties of the molecules on the film.

Digital cameras use the energy released to allow a cascade of electrons to run which are detected and taken to represent an image.

Maybe ghosts have an energy effect upon the CCD so that they register the image but no direct energy effect upon film.

It's a shame the search for the Loch Ness Monster mostly died out before digital cameras came along ... maybe Nessie is a ghost!

[TimberWolf]

Anyone having any luck with Friday the 13th in 3D? I'm getting too many light aberrations / reflections from the cheap specs to get the most out of it. Some parts look as though they'd work if the specs were a bit better though.

[norrahe]

This was quite interesting in explaining certain things.

[Zippy]

Oh FFS - what have some of you been smoking? There is no credible evidence for the existence of ghosts.

[norrahe]

Oh FFS - what have some of you been smoking? There is no credible evidence for the existence of ghosts.

hence this

[EC4N]

Oh FFS - what have some of you been smoking? There is no credible evidence for the existence of ghosts.

Perhaps not ghosts but try looking up 'Jinn'.