Introduction

Orb photography can be lots of fun and can also be a great hobby.  In researching what types of cameras captured Orbs and other phenomenon, I learned a few interesting facts that I wanted to share.  I really wanted to immediately compile an extensive chart listing the Known Camera Types  which take pictures of Orbs, but for now the list will have to be an on going ever growing list.  I did learn that a sure bet for the type of camera would be a camera whose sensor photo type is CCD.   Camera sensor photo types are CCD, CMOS and JFET.  On the left side of this page is a Page Index to make it easier for you to quickly find different topics and charts on cameras and photography. 

Photographing Phenomenon

For the best pictures of Orbs the things to look for in photographs is clear movement of the Orb,  an Orb that is overlapped by another in-focus object in the picture,  and Orbs that appear brighter than normal.  

Orbs and Ectoplasm appear when photographing, videotaping, or monitoring the infrared  realm.  The best shutter speed is about thirty frames per second.

A Chart of  Photographed Phenomenon listing the types of anomalies and their definitions is located on the Anomalies page.  When colored Orbs, Apparitions, Spirits, etc. appear in your photos, you may want to further investigate the significance or possible interpretation of the colors.  I have included a Color Chart and Spiritual Meanings on the Colors page.

Known Camera Types

CCD - Charge-Coupled Device

A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a light-sensitive integrated circuit that stores and displays the data for an image in such a way that each pixel in the image is converted into an electrical charge the intensity of which is related to a color in the color spectrum. For a system supporting 65,535 colors, there will be a separate value for each color that can be stored and recovered. CCDs are now commonly included in digital still and video cameras. They are also used in astronomical telescopes, scanners, and bar code readers. The devices have also found use in machine vision for robots, in optical character recognition (OCR), in the processing of satellite photographs, and in the enhancement of radar images, especially in meteorology.

A CCD in a digital camera improves resolution compared with older technologies. Some digital cameras produce images having more than one million pixels, yet sell for under $1,000.  Another asset of the CCD is its high degree of sensitivity. A good CCD can produce an image in extremely dim light, and its resolution does not deteriorate when the illumination intensity is low, as is the case with conventional cameras.

The CCD was invented in 1969 at Bell Labs, now part of Lucent Technologies, by George Smith and Willard Boyle.

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