Review on FLIR TG165 X Temperature Anomalies Rechargeable by Richard Cunningham

(Please note this Amazon page currently covers two products, TG165 and TG267.) tldr: 165 is great, 267 is very disappointing. big fan of my TG165 and have been using it for years to diagnose things around the house, find wet spots etc. When FLIR introduced the TG267 I decided to buy it. I figured I'd appreciate the higher resolution, better thermal sensitivity, etc. and give my older one to a friend. Instead, the 267 found a few major weaknesses: 1) The always-on "MSX Image Enhancement" is completely screwed up and negates the usefulness of this device. Unlike their more expensive models, they've done a poor job with this feature that combines the camera image with the thermal image. Unfortunately, the way they've implemented it doesn't make it possible to tell the difference between high-contrast edges of a scene and hot or cold spots, defeating the purpose of a thermal imager. You can "turn it off" by sticking tape on the camera, but then you'll get noise in the picture as the camera tries to increase the exposure and fails. It hurts that fixing this problem will probably require 2 lines of code. Firmware update sometime? Maybe, but I'm not holding my breath. 2) A spot infrared thermometer (not a camera) is inexplicably bad. The temperature jumps about 10-20 degrees F every second just by looking at a hot pan. If you look at something like the ground, it jumps 3-6 degrees. strange. Both the old TG165 and the cheap o instantly record the same temperature to the exact degree. 3) Large Delays. The TG267 will freeze the image for a second or two. The whole time. Like every 10 seconds. It's really annoying. 4) Long loading time. The TG267 takes twice as long to start as the TG265. In short, this thing is back.