I haven't been using this camera for quite a while. The camera creates orbs, not flares and I don't know why. My second newest camera a P & S also creates orbs but very few . They are both Canons. My newest camera, the Panasonic, doesn't do this, nor does my phone camera. Maybe it has something to do with the way they are made. A real sun flare is obvious, these are not caused by the sun. So I don't know what to think, it is not a big concern of mine just a curiosity.

I'm not too sure they'll be that glad to have them. I take a lot of foreign trips and the best way to put my kids to sleep is to show them my trip photos. I have figured out how to display them on my HD TV (instead of viewing them as a slide show like everybody did when I was a kid) but same effect. I never took great care to save my multitudes of prints and now a few CDs and SD cards. I put a lot of my pictures on my PC but my cheap PCs seem to die in 3-5 years. Yes I have had a tech transfer my photo files from the dead computer hard drive onto a flash drive, but the last PC that died I just threw it out with the pictures gone forever, I guess. I have no idea where the SD card the photos came from went. I suppose I know enough to transfer the photos to something else but I certainly don't back them up. In fact I never have backed anything up from any PC I have owned. My method is to make sure I have a paper copy of anything important or rarely I transfer something to Google Drive where by diligence I can usually manage to find the desired file. That way, when my cheap HP PC dies I have no worries. I am old enough to be ambivalent about computer technology. My 3 sons are like me in that they seem to have little regret for losing old pictures. I'll ask them in a couple weeks what they think I ought to do with the old photos and they'll probably say "Do what you want."

My brother died 4 years ago and he had all the old family pictures. I went through them with my youngest son. I came across a couple old negatives and decided to have them printed. Walmart did, but they cropped them funny, so I took them to a professional service that did an excellent job especially on the one with my great grandfather's brand new horse drawn veterinary wagon. I'm guessing the pictures were from 1905. The prints look like new, very sharp. So I put that one on FB, but what else to do with them? I'm the only one in the family now that has the slightest clue who these people were. My family labeled almost nothing. There was a picture of "Uncle Ike" who I think was my great grandfather's brother and my son is the spitting image of old Uncle Ike from 1900.
Another sad family story, while I'm rambling on, my great grandfather owned a movie theater in the Newark, NJ area and his son-in-law was projectionist there. I think they used arc light projectors and one night the nitrate film caught on fire which apparently was not unusual. They had a metal can with a lid which they would throw the burning film in, which he did. Unfortunately, the can contained other film already which started and even worse fire and his son-in-law burned to death. The newspaper clipping was in with the old negatives and prints. Just found this little description online so here is the link.
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/10/523237767/whats-the-issue-with-nitrate-film-stock-its-combustible

I looked up AVCHD now I know. The article I read showed a comparison of the two formats in a picture much like yours and I could see no difference there, either.

Thanks for sending that. I will have to look up AVCHD to see what it means. Evidently setting my zs100 To AVCHD will accomplish nothing except making it impossible to view my videos on my Chromebook. It must be a gimmick.

I'm just slowly learning my new Lumix ZS100 camera. I took some sample videos and played them on my Chromebook and HDTV. Very good quality. Then I saw the setting that said MP4 (which I was on) good for viewing on PC. THen there was AVCHD setting "good for HDTV" it said. So I switched to AVCHD and took a couple videos. When I went to play them my Chromebook wouldn't play them or even recognize them. It was as if they didn't exist. Then I got them to play on my HDTV but they were very low quality, nowhere near as nice as my MP4s. So naturally I have switched back to MP4. I know I could Google all this, but maybe someone here can clue me in what's going on? Why isn't AVCHD better quality video which the setting says?

About 10 years ago I climbed Mt. St. Helens with my moderate P & S camera. No dust cover on it. The photos were great but that was the last photos the camera ever took. I learned when climbing a volcano put a ziplock bag over your camera or the dust will ruin it.

I made a photo book with Snapfish years ago, but it was a difficult learning process. It did come out really nice even though I was using a small 12 mp P & S camera. Last one I did was on my Chromebook where Google suggested a collection of photos from a recent trip to Easter Island. So I just took their suggestions and had them print it up. It came out good although a couple of the photos were just stupid that I never would have chosen. I don't know who or what picks the photos. At least I didn't have to do any work or learn anything. If and when I do my next trip with my new travel camera I'm thinking of putting the pictures on Google Photos (cloud) and making a book from there. It' s easy to transfer to Google Cloud on my Chromebook. Why not? Then I can show them from my phone anywhere I go or view them on any computer.

I'm just taking my new Panasonic zs-100 out of the box. It will be interesting to see if I get orbs on that. I still have most of my old LPs but unfortunately I sold my parents really nice hi-fi and turntable after they died for $25. Stupid now I wish I had it back. So I can't check for blue orbs on my records.

It would be funny if it was burned in, but from what I can see it's not. I'll have to wait until he takes another similar picture of me, so far my blue halo does not show up.

I have to conclude that his canon g9x is about the perfect hiking camera he takes videos while walking which are pretty steady unlike his old camera which made his videos jumpy. Plus it takes pictures of me wearing a halo. Can't beat that.

I'm sure my friend did not do that effect on purpose. So I was being silly. Maybe this only happens once in a blue moon.

Exactly, that was my whole point. I have texted to my friend to ask what he saw in his viewfinder screen at the time and he hasn't answered. I think it means I am going to change my handle to "Saint Ishmael". I consulted my paranormal investigator lady and she said "It means you have a lot of energy." I am very interested in "spirit" photography, something like that guy Josh Gates does on his travel channel program. When my plumber friend was here we were trading ghost stories.

I bought a new backpack last summer just to save 11 oz. so in reality it is kind of heavy for backpacking for several days.

So it should be fairly easy to do this anytime? I don't think I have ever seen a photo quite like this. Actually I have never seen a blue circle around anybody when I went to take their picture. But then again I wasn't looking for it. My plumber was here to collect some money and I showed it to him and he said it made him think of Skinwalker Ranch where they have these orbs especially blue ones. They are supposed to be dangerous, so he said I should be careful. I'm going to have to ask my friend again just how he did it. When I find out I will post his answer.