The critics suggested all kinds of lame excuses why digital imaging was not practical nor reliable. The truth is that digital technology continues to prove them wrong. Today's modern 3 to 6 megapixel cameras are equal to the film cameras for prints up to the 11x14-inch prints. Their logic is a bit flawed. A film camera is not IR sensitive and was not designed to pull from the IR spectrum, so Digital is more designed for this research than film.
Orbs are Infrared.
The IGHS has used the digital camera in their field investigation and fully recommends without reservation the use of digital cameras for field investigations. The digital camera has been proven time and again to be very reliable and effective at capturing ghostly anomalies in a digital format. We now have thousands of photographs obtained with a multitude of different digital cameras posted on the GhostWeb, all essentially proving the same conclusion, the digital camera is an excellent ghost hunting tool. 2000 issue of digitalFOTO along with some of our ghostly digital photographs. The film camera operates in a different manner then the digital camera.