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What distances is something like this accurate to? I just ordered a 3DRobotics Iris and I'm interested in mounting some thermal/IR/multi-spectral imaging to it ... could something like this work from the sky?
I was too absent minded to ask about distance specifically.
As someone who has spent the past month fighting with FLIR customer support to get a $5000 camera working robustly and correctly I doubt that this will be a good product. We have dozens of FLIR cameras and at least a quarter of them have been sent back for re-calibration. We're about to send one out for the second time. Also, forget about open source support.
Why would anyone need this?
I have a 100 year old house that I've been remodeling, and this would enable me to easily find air leaks. I'm skeptical that it will enable me to find studs through horsehair plaster (they show visible studs in the gallery), but it will certainly make it easier to locate the position of forced hot water pipes in the walls and ceilings.
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/flir-e4-thermal-imagin...
That's a 1927 house with plaster & lath walls.
Seemed pretty responsive. Good enough to capture the residual temperature from someone touching a table. Not pro level stuff obviously but worth exploring for basic thermal imaging applications it seemed to me.
Is there anyone that does photography where the R in RGB is replaced by thermal values? I've always been curious what the world would look like if our red cones were replaced with a thermal cone cell.
Imaging is going to be the next "big" ITAR battleground. I think the "Camera Wars" will stir up more public controversy than what we had with the Crypto Wars. Crypto is not the only munition in disguise.
Why would anyone need this?
I took of pic of one in action last night: http://imgur.com/vT4vl2o Seemed pretty responsive. Good enough to capture the residual temperature from someone touching a table. Not pro level stuff obviously but worth exploring for basic thermal imaging applications it seemed to me.
I wish they mentioned pricing. Of course IR cameras exist, the thing that makes it interesting is how much it might cost.
Says "under $350" http://www.flir.com/flirone/press/assets/Discover/FLIR%20ONE...