Don H. Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I just got my FLIR ONE™ infrared camera thingie for my iPhone. This new accessory is going to get used in a number of ways, both work and personal. Chasing heat loss in the house will be an important project around the home. This is gonna be fun to work with. The FLIR ONE is described HERE. It ain't cheap -- about £210 -- but it appears to be a well-designed piece of kit from a company who specializes in IR cameras. Here's the engine on my car about two hours after getting home from a drive. There are a number of imaging modes on the camera, shown here in order of "iron", "rainbow", and "grey". There are some other ones not shown in these examples. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Hi Don, next time you get a head cold check out the thermal image of your sinus's - quite amazing. Thermal mamograms work well also. I have a white coat, I must get one of these app's Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted August 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 The images above are 526 x 395 px (0.2 MP, 4:3), for about a 100kB jpeg file. Not terribly high resolution, but probably enough for anything I'm planning to do with it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuzanneH Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I've got a picture of Concorde taking off, similar to that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alec Pringle Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Holy Mackerel Roger, with one of these and a white coat you could find yourself in serious difficulties . . . . Cheers Alec Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 ........bit of a hot spot.... Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
McMuttley Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 I guess the £210 price tag rules it out for us (err I mean those) pervs out there. Damn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4Mal Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 not available outside US at the moment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 This pic was shot on a very old nitrogen filled Agema camera - but still looks impressive. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harrytr5 Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Roger I would love to have a photo of that.Used to see the Concorde at 10am every morning when working in Richmond.Everyone stopped and looked up.I still get goose bumps thinking about that! Good to see you last night. Regards Harry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Hi Harry, I'll see what I can do. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted August 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Roger I would love to have a photo of that.... ...I'll see what I can do. I think you already have the photo of the Concorde, Harry. Roger gave us a copy via his attachment. Isn't it simply a matter of saving the (very cool) image to a storage device, like a USB stick, and taking it to your nearest place that does photos? You can probably do it via email, and have a choice of all kinds of sizes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Hi Don, Su'e just said the same to me. Interesting that the device is not available outside the US at present. At British Airways if we wanted to buy any IR equipment from the States we had to sign our life away lest we give the technology to the Ruskies. I always thought we invented the technology - perhaps not. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted August 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 The device has *just* come onto the market this week, Roger. I was on an early notification list based on interest expressed almost a year ago. Some folks are concerned that it's iPhone 5/5S based, and there'll soon be an iPhone 6. That's fine by me -- I'll keep my 5S for use with the instrument. Did the same thing with an old iPhone 4 as the XM satellite radio receiver in my pickup. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
McMuttley Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Don, Ill take a pic of my car, email it to you and let you test it with your gadget Doh Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted August 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Don, Ill take a pic of my car, email it to you and let you test it with your gadget Happy to help, Austin -- There have been some posts on other forums that depending on the clothing one wears, this kind of technology may create some... ummm... "privacy" issues. I haven't tested that yet. We'll wait for Roger and his white-coat work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alec Pringle Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 This could add a whole new dimension to home movies . . . . . Cheers Alec Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Hi Don, things get even more interesting is you covered yourself in gold leaf. I believe you sort of become invisible. Invisible in a white coat and green hat Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peejay4A Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 (edited) I once visited a "certain establishment" where they made such things and I was shown a single crystal which had been grown to enormous size and ground to a lens for an IR detector. It was humongous in size, weight and cost. Edited August 15, 2014 by peejay4A Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Peter Cobbold Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Hi Don, Su'e just said the same to me. Interesting that the device is not available outside the US at present. At British Airways if we wanted to buy any IR equipment from the States we had to sign our life away lest we give the technology to the Ruskies. I always thought we invented the technology - perhaps not. Roger In the '60s Soviet image intensification- used for low-light vision at visible wavelengths - was vastly better than in the west. Their was a concern that their satellites could track the bioluminescent wake from ships and, worse, subs. So the US Navy put money into research in bioluminescence hoping to find ways of stopping it. Result: a Nobel prize for Osamu Shimomura and others: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/shimomura-lecture.html The Navy never got its cure. But cell biology aquired a hugely versatile set of cell-imaging tools. Peter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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