Seek Thermal - Android Infrared Camera Review
by Ganesh T S on May 1, 2015 8:30 AM EST- Posted in
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- Thermal Imaging
- Seek Thermal
Sample Thermal Images
A number of comments have come in with requests for thermal image samples taken by the Seek Thermal camera in day-to-day circumstances. A few cases are provided below. It can be seen that the temperature is not very accurate - for example, the temperature of a component in the refrigerator is reported as -13 C, when the compartment is set to be at 0 C. Also, the skin temperature is reported to be around 32 C, when it is obviously around 37 C (updated: see comments section).
Boiling Water in a Stainless Steel Vessel
Refrigerator Freeze Compartment
Child
Lab with IT Equipment
Faucet with Running Water
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Folterknecht - Friday, May 1, 2015 - link
So now Anandtech is finally able to include IR images of VRMs on GPUs and mobos? High Time - after seeing the IR images on TH with the initial GTX 960 review (100°C +)DanNeely - Friday, May 1, 2015 - link
Maybe. It depends on if it's just a review loaner or not. If it's something that was bought/donated *one* of the editors could use it for improved thermal measuring. The Anandtech writers work from home at various locations around the world; there's no central office where they can all borrow from a shared set of toys.dave1231 - Friday, May 1, 2015 - link
Bang goes my rough sleeping in the park bushes.Impulses - Friday, May 1, 2015 - link
How does this compare to the old DSLR & mirrorless cameras that people convert into IR? Output seems rougher here but I dunno if that actually makes it more useful for testing purposes.RandomUsername3245 - Friday, May 1, 2015 - link
Those IR DSLRs see the infrared region that is *barely* above what our eyes can see, e.g. we see roughly wavelengths = 0.4-0.7 um. The IR SLRs see ~0.7-1.0um. These SLRs don't see thermal emission until roughly the same temperature as we see it with our naked eye: when things glow red hot. Thermal cameras like the Seek see longwave infrared, which is roughly ~8-14 um. This is a substantially different wavelength region than the SLRs.mike8675309 - Friday, May 1, 2015 - link
The killer thing these type of cameras can do is take a picture with both visible and IR cameras. Then overlay the IR on the visible image to make it easier to pinpoint where the hot spots are in relation to things.fobosca - Friday, May 1, 2015 - link
Unfortunately this is just a toy. Expensive one. I am professional thermographer and was using multiple FLIR cameras. Thermal resolution is too low for any practical use. Unless of cuz you wanna take pictures if your cat and you have some money to burn. Good luck trying to get any accurate temperature.sor - Saturday, May 2, 2015 - link
Am I missing something, or are we being misled by a conflation of the visible and infrared resolutions? At 32k it seems this has a resolution between a FLIR E6 and E8, which range in the thousands of dollars.Daniel Egger - Saturday, May 2, 2015 - link
I happen to own a FLIR i7 which has a lower resolution but from what I'm reading seems to be vastly more accurate than the Seek Thermal (when set to the correct material/reflectivity) and have a higher resolution for the temperature readout (you can actually locate wirings in brick walls even with only low currents passing through).I'd be really interested in a shootout between those add-ons and dedicated IR thermographing gear let's say up to a couple thousand bucks.
thebeastie - Saturday, May 2, 2015 - link
Yeah LOL there are a few reviews of this on the web that have heaps better pictures of cars etc.Those pics on this review are super boring, I can only assume the reviewer was asked to review this and has absolutely no interest in it.
What would be really handy for me with this is checking for bad battery cells or links on ebike batteries under load...
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=18650+e+bike+ba...