do I make you hot well there's only one way to find
out for sure a thermal camera meet the
one from Fleer an affordable thermal
camera module that Clips to the bottom of your
smartphone Mass drop is currently featuring The MSI GTX 1080 armor 8G
learn more at the link in the video description let's start with one of my
biggest complaints about the Fleer 1 in spite of the name there are actually two
of them I mean I understand the reason one is for Apple devices with a
lightning connector and the other is for Android devices with a micr USB
connector but if there was a way to equip the Fleer 2 or whatever a
successor ended up being called with swappable interfaces without
compromising the admittedly very strong connectors
I think that would go a long way towards improving the versatility and future
proofness of these devices an important
consideration when you factor in that even an affordable mobile accessory
version of fle technology is going to run you $250
us let's take a closer look then at the
one both versions look almost the same
and share the same internals and same basic mode of operation so we'll be
mostly treating them as one for the rest of the video here the outer shell is
plastic but fairly confidence inspiring
it's not rated for water or dust resistance but it seems like it could
survive a drop or two on the right is a status LED equipped power button so you
can tell when it's booting up versus fully powered on and ready to engage
with the phone app on the left is a battery charge indicator and a micro USB
charging port so yes that means the Fleer 1 uses a 350 Mah internal battery
in does not charge off of the device it's attached to convenient in some ways
but kind of a drag in others and finally at the front are the twin cameras the
stars of the show I did say twin but I should probably clarify that I mean
fraternal twins in this case because they are absolutely nothing alike one of
them is for capturing infrared light a thermal camera and the other is for
capturing visible light a well camera
camera the thermal camera uses fleer's
leptin an astonishingly small and lowcost longwave infrared sensor to
generate 80x 60 pixel thermal images
that are accurate to within. 1° C from a
range ofus 20 all the way up to 120°
that's -4 to 248 Fahrenheit for our American viewers the visible camera is
less impressive it's a 640x 480 yeah VGA
air and that's pretty much all we know about
it other than the reason that the Fleer one even has one without getting too
deep into this resolution is a word that gets frequently misused it means how
much detail can be resolved from an
image so a film picture also has a
resolution even if you can't count the
pixels so let's fire up the app and just take a picture here so the visible
camera is actually where it seems like
the advertised effective resolution of 160x 120 comes from thanks to a
technique called MSX blending that in a
nutshell captures a visible light picture then strips out everything but
textures and edges and overlays the thermal image with the ability to peek
behind it at the original normal capture as needed for easy diagnosis of whatever
it is that you're looking at an HVAC system a problematic circuit or that
freaking cat that's trying to avoid being taken to the vet Fleer claims this
technique allows the image to have five times the detail a figure that they may
have pulled out of their butts for all I can tell but whether it's four or five
or six times it clearly works pretty darn well because the thermal image
alone is much more difficult to read especially for a lay person like me and
on top of still image capture it actually supports video Panorama and
even timelapse capture which is actually a stroke of Genius for diagnosing
problems that might develop slowly or be related to the time of
day which is cool lus but uh why should
I care what are these things even for and why the hell do you need one well
for the first one I don't know about you but I care because they're just pretty
freaking cool as for practical uses there are actually many thermal imagers
like so many things were actually developed for military use allowing
Personnel to detect heat signatures engine exhaust operating machinery and
even people during the Korean War but today their applications range from
medical use ever seen those cameras and arrivals at the international airport
they're checking to see if you have a fever and you're going to spread disease
to building optimization to check the effectiveness of insulation to law
enforcement night vision goggles anyone to storm tracking to Home Inspection to
you're watching you name it and what we've been enjoying is the way that
suddenly a thermal camera allows us to validate manufacturer claims like
oneplus's assertion that their quick charging technique keeps the phone
running cooler than competing qualcom Quick Charge 3.0 and razors claim that
the new blade 14 2016 Edition runs much
cooler than last year's model neat right
yeah I guess lonus but uh does this make the existence of higher end ones like
the Fleer E60 which is like a $7,000
camera that you were showing off on Instagram a little while ago uh
Superfluous great question but no I don't think so the app is surprisingly
stable and functional but higher end models have features that are a must for
industrial use swappable batteries SD recording rugged housing and the ability
to operate without a phone attached to name a few and the fler one is not
perfect we ran into compatibility issues for example with the iPhone SE and on
the Android side of things the onward March towards USB type-c standardization
reveals the problem with that future proofness issue that I alluded to before
we actually tried using uh type c to
microe adapter with the HTC 10 but we
didn't have any luck getting it to work though your mileage may vary bottom line
though it's not perfect and hopefully
resolution durab and compatibility rise as cost continues to lower but if you
need an affordable thermal camera for some reason then the Fleer one which
Fleer is leaving with us to enrich our future reviews by the way which is
awesome will likely be as welcome in addition to your diagnostic Arsenal as
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