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Sometimes discoveries
can be made completely by accident...such was the case with "Caspers".
Several years ago,
while experimenting in my back yard during wet weather, I made a
very interesting discovery...that apparently the aperture openings
in our cameras can create oddly-shaped false orbs. My original
intent was to create a false positive known as a "rain orb" in order
to learn what these looked like compared to true ghostly orbs.
It was during this
experiment that I happened to solve a mystery that had been puzzling
me for some time. For a while, I had been capturing odd,
"bracket-shaped orbs" that looked like this {} in my photos.
During my experiment,
I intentionally tipped my camera up at the sky, so that raindrops
would fall directly on the lens. I wanted to see what these
would look like in a photo. While holding the camera like
this, I snapped a couple of shots, and noticed that the aperture
opening of the camera was the exact same bracket shape as the
anomalies I'd been getting in my photos! I dubbed them "caspers"
because Casper isn't a real ghost, either...he's a cartoon
character.
Since that time, my
research has shown that caspers can appear in different shapes such
as diamonds, hexagons, bells, stars and even bird or airplane
shapes. If you see orbs in your photos that are odd-shaped
(anything but round), then please be sure to check your aperture
opening. Be sure that the flash is turned off or covered up
first, though! You might find that you'll see the same shape
in the opening of the aperture. Watch the aperture all the way
through opening and closing, and see if it matches the odd "orbs"
that you're finding in your photos.
Below is a collection
of various kinds of caspers. Remember, these are not true
orbs, but simply a false anomaly that is most likely caused by the
aperture opening being reflected off the inside of the lens and
captured in the photo under the right conditions. I will be
adding other examples of caspers as I receive photos that show them. |
