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That and the associated optics.

There’s some reason for encouragement however. I bought a Seek Pro, with 320x240 resolution, on sale for $350 earlier this year. The app is pretty terrible unfortunately and the camera physical construction is flimsy, but the imager seems to be of reasonable quality for the price point.

Couple of examples: https://imgur.com/a/ZGsOwUm

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Thermal imaging resolution is restricted by arm control laws unfortunately. There are forces at work beyond market forces.

ITAR compliance assurance isn't free and certainly impacts operational costs, but the sensor I have isn't export controlled and still normally costs >$1K when you buy it from FLIR.

That's only for the US though, and I'd expect such a product to come from Asia.

I once rented an IR camera for roughly 100€. This is probably the best option for people who only need IR cameras on very few occasions.

Will we ever see chap(ish) IR cameras? Is there an alternative to germanium lenses on the horizon?

I believe there are some metamaterial-based approaches for the actual microbolometers that should help drive costs down. Ostensibly metamaterials could also be used for lenses but I'm not aware of anything there, we're probably stuck with germanium for the time being.

Zinc selenide lenses for laser cutters work very well in the spectral range covered by consumer IR cameras. They are dirt cheap on eBay, Ali Express, and other places.

Seek cameras are rather noisy though. More expensive, but much less noisy and still reasonable to buy as a expensive toy would be TE-Q1 from i3system: http://nicesuper3.cafe24.com/down/TE-Q1-compressed.pdf

Looks good! Any idea why they make it so difficult to buy their product?

i3system is based in South Korea, and I guess shipping thermal imaging technology is PITA due to various restrictions, not profitable enough to sell to individual customers. There seems to be EU reseller (thermalexpert.eu) but they sell only to companies (likely because VAT accounting when selling exclusively to companies is much easier).

That carboy is pretty hot.

It was a pretty hot yeast: https://i.imgur.com/YGhx1kr.jpg

Appears to be a still? Never done that. I do mead and wine.

Literally just making sure we could get sanitizer if we needed it. Maybe will get into the craft at some point.

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