When it comes to paranormal based evidence, it is far too common to see photographs depicting user error and settings that are the cause for what is believed to be unexplained phenomena. The fact of the matter is most of those photos are explainable and are caused by a lack of understanding and knowledge about the equipment that is being used. I am going to be offering a series of articles that will hopefully educate the paranormal community about their equipment, why they are getting the anomalies they are, and how to avoid those false positives in their photographs. First let's start with the basics.

There are two classifications of cameras, digital and 35mm. 35mm is rarely used in the field anymore, mostly due to a very limited amount of photographs that can be taken as well as the possibilities for film error. For the sake of education, we are going to explain the differences in all of them. Within each classification, there are two very different styles of cameras. Both have a point and shoot and a single lens reflex (SLR).

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