🔍 Enhanced Resolution in FLIR Compact Thermal Imaging Review

After 3 months of ownership and brief use, the shutter release/record button was blocked. This is an image button/trigger; As a result, I was no longer able to capture a thermal image, nor a "real" image - for reporting purposes. The thermals were still working, just couldn't take a picture of them. *Extra kudos even though it was still under warranty and they basically sent it back a week later. Otherwise I really like the camera.

Works reasonably well. Alignment issues can occur when viewing close objects because the digital camera and thermal imager are misaligned. You can select the distance to compensate in the menu, but there is only one of several options (e.g. 1 meter, half a meter, etc.) for very short distances. If the object is far away, this is not a problem; but within a foot or less it may be. Also, the lens is a bit wide-angle and there's no way to focus. I'm not sure what hyperfocal distance is, but it…

I recently bought this for use with NAS SERVERS to see which drives are hot and which areas aren't getting adequate cooling. I really love this thing, I was looking at the E4 model. For a few hundred dollars you can get higher resolution and automatic hot/cold detection. This camera comes into play a lot. I mean an EXTREMELY high quality case like a pelican case or something similar. The battery life of this camera is quite long (4 hours with high screen brightness and 5-6 hours with low…