Seek makes the most affordable, about $300, the more expensive have more pixels, much better detail. It's amazing what flir can do. Strictly heat, cant see through glass, those that do the image overlay make finding things easier. Better than night vision in my opinion. 👍👍
I tried a cheaper AGM thermal monocular in hopes that it would at least point out heat sources in the trees, but it only seems to work for mammals. After talking with some friends that do thermal spotting of owls and actually using their scopes I've found that you definitely need to pay a hefty amount of money to get a scope that's high enough quality to pick out owl heat signatures. It's not worth it otherwise.
i like your rig. if nothing else it helps get your eyes pointed in the right direction. were you able to get the overlay calibrated? maybe it was a quick fix?
Those mobile phone FLIR Seek attachments are not really intended to be used for the distances you're using them for as their resolution is way too low, you need something that has a higher resolution and is intended to be used for seeing smaller thermal signatures at those distances. (think double or triple the cost of what an FLIR mobile phone attachment costs) You could likely see a person at 100m with those but a bird in the trees would be not easy to see, mainly because of the background radiation from the trees themselves as they store heat from the sun and slowly get colder at night, the colder the conditions the more likely you could differentiate a bird from the surrounding trees. I myself have an Cat S60 phone with FLIR built in and even though I think its better than a separate FLIR phone attachment its also not designed to be used at great distances, I can see people on the beach at night at 100m away but birds in trees at even half that distance would be difficult to see.
Hey thanks for that, good Intel.
Great test, thanks Lyellen.
Thanks very informative
Very cool!
Seek makes the most affordable, about $300, the more expensive have more pixels, much better detail. It's amazing what flir can do. Strictly heat, cant see through glass, those that do the image overlay make finding things easier. Better than night vision in my opinion. 👍👍
That is so smart!
I tried a cheaper AGM thermal monocular in hopes that it would at least point out heat sources in the trees, but it only seems to work for mammals. After talking with some friends that do thermal spotting of owls and actually using their scopes I've found that you definitely need to pay a hefty amount of money to get a scope that's high enough quality to pick out owl heat signatures. It's not worth it otherwise.
i like your rig. if nothing else it helps get your eyes pointed in the right direction. were you able to get the overlay calibrated? maybe it was a quick fix?
Yes, recalibrating the overlay required just the push of a button and then it was perfect.
Those mobile phone FLIR Seek attachments are not really intended to be used for the distances you're using them for as their resolution is way too low, you need something that has a higher resolution and is intended to be used for seeing smaller thermal signatures at those distances. (think double or triple the cost of what an FLIR mobile phone attachment costs) You could likely see a person at 100m with those but a bird in the trees would be not easy to see, mainly because of the background radiation from the trees themselves as they store heat from the sun and slowly get colder at night, the colder the conditions the more likely you could differentiate a bird from the surrounding trees.
I myself have an Cat S60 phone with FLIR built in and even though I think its better than a separate FLIR phone attachment its also not designed to be used at great distances, I can see people on the beach at night at 100m away but birds in trees at even half that distance would be difficult to see.