Date sent: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:59:05 -0800 From: Bertha Adamson To: Infrared Mailing List Subject: In the spirit of Halloween Send reply to: infrared@a1.nl Yes, the pun is intentional. I am addicted to the television cable channel, The Discovery Channel. They do programming on a lot of different topics, ya know, documentary, behind-the-scenes type shows. Anyway, one program was on the equipment investigators into paranormal phenomena, i.e. ghost-hunters, use to detect spirits. One guy extolled the virtues of using infrared film and nightshot cameras with an IR light source. At first, I thought he was saying he became inspired by the "ghostly" appearance of people in infrared, but he is actually referring to capturing images not visible to the naked eye. The infrared prints were flashed up so quickly that I couldn't pick anything out of the glowing foliage. But using the nightshot cameras, they got footage of little balls of light that seem to move deliberately, changing direction and so on. Now, I remain skeptical because these things are taken too much at face value, (little real scientific method applied to analyzing the data) but it did get me wondering. We have so many people who have so much experience at taking infrared images, I thought it would be fun to ask if anyone on the list has an image that has caused a shiver down the spine. Particularly shots at castles or especially bloody battlegrounds, which as we all know, are swarming with ghosts. No, it's not a technical question, but I hope it has enough IR relevance for the purists. ;-) Bertha -- http://belleame.home.netcom.com Date sent: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 01:39:40 -0800 From: grinch@velocity.net To: infrared@a1.nl Subject: Re: In the spirit of Halloween Send reply to: infrared@a1.nl I once made a test strip while printing an IR negative that when run through the chemicals and viewed in daylight had (and this isn't a joke either, it freaked me out) and perfect rendering of a skull with a small disproportionate body attached to it. They were colored black. I had made two test strips in the exact same spot and it only appeared on one of them. I even went so far as to scrutinize the negative, which had no such image on it which made it all the more strange. I was working in the darkroom at the Drake Well Museum in PA. It's the birthplace of the oil industry and has a lot of history surrounding it, as well as claimed "ghost" sightings in and around the museum itself. Does this count? :-) Happy Halloween L