FLIR Systems is proud to announce a new camera that breaks the $500 price barrier! The new OneTimIR is a single use point and shoot camera operating in the popular 4,000 to 7,500 angstrom wave band. These lightweight point and shoot cameras provide the ultimate in portability, resolution and affordability – AND REQUIRE NO BATTERIES!. “This is one cheap camera!” was overheard spoken from an unnamed Sales Manager when this product was recently introduced.

FLIR's new OneTimIR single use camera (click for larger image)

Here's how the detector works; electromagnetic photons cause a chemical change to special compounds layered on polyester acetate media inside the camera. The camera features an albedo control to compensate for differing intensities of radiation. The chemical record is very stable, and can be subsequently developed, amplified and modified to produce a representation of that moment that you can put in your photo album or your wallet, or that can be reproduced millions of times in magazines, books and newspapers.

 
OneTimIR's polyester acetate detector

The detector is approximately 1.4 inches wide and can store up to 36000 x 10^-3 images. The images are then developed at a secret laboratory and returned to the user a week or so later on a CD. The user also has the option of 24 hour service at other secret locations, usually pharmacies or large department stores.

While the $500 price barrier is indeed remarkable it should be pointed out that this is a single use camera system. The focus market is infrequent users looking at very hot targets (above 500°C).

FLIR IS THE ONLY INFRARED CAMERA MANUFACTURER TO OFFER DISPOSABLE CAMERAS FOR UNDER US$500!

Now it's fun and easy for you to take great pictures any time--of almost anything--with FLIR System's OneTimIR cameras. They take great action and still pictures, in high and low radiation fluxes. They go everywhere--even where traditional cameras don’t dare to go.

Where do you go when you need that one special ITC accessory? Well, thousands of students have come to our Boston facility to learn and browse our store. But now you can find many of the same items conveniently on the web! Yes, ITC has opened a web store. Not only can you find past proceedings from our InfraMation conference, but you can also find that special ITC promotional item that will make you look sharp on the job. Here's the link, http://flir.promoshop.com/featuredproduct/index.aspx?DPSV_Id=186500 , take a look around.

Rusty is our newest instructor and has 6 years of infrared thermography experience in the paper industry where he also has 23 years working with mechanical and electrical systems. He is licensed in South Carolina to perform HVAC installation and repairs which he has been doing for over 10 years as well. With his extensive background in industrial systems, Rusty brings practical knowledge and know-how to his training sessions. Rusty enjoys golfing and bass fishing.

Straight from the World Wide Web, here is what's going on in the world of infrared thermography.

• Severity criteria made for infrared inspections
  Manufacturing Talk, UK - Mar 29, 2006
  Thermal imaging has evolved into one of the ... Infrared camera manufacturers like FLIR Systems offer ... plants all throughout Europe, thermography inspection results ...

• Who you gonna call?
  Chicago Sun-Times, United States - Mar 26, 2006
  ... They used manometers to measure air pressure; chemical smoke wands to reveal air currents; an infrared camera to show air leakage, and digital thermometers to ...

• Red alert
  Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom - Mar 27, 2006
  ... iRed, from Havant, Hampshire, and another, Infrared Vision, based in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, are among those arranging home-thermography packages, with ...

• John Deere Use Flir’s ThermaCAM® TO Optimize its Tractors
  Process & Control Today, UK - Mar 23, 2006
  ... Germany, use FLIR Systems ThermaCAM SC-series ... And the Researcher thermal imaging software package allows us ... Thermography’s ability to visualize and measure ...
   

• BMW drivers see FIRther
  New Car Net, UK - Mar 23, 2006
  BMW has introduced its new Night Vision system as an optional extra on 5 and 6 Series cars. Night Vision uses a Far Infrared (FIR ...

• Google now shows the way to Mars
  Albuquerque Tribune, NM - Mar 23, 2006
  ... exploring opposite ends of the planet since 2004, said Phil Christensen, an Arizona State University planetary geologist who operates an infrared camera on the ...

• Texas aerospace engineers to test energy-efficient wing design
  PhysOrg.com, VA - Mar 13, 2006
  ... The researchers use infrared thermography to detect whether airflow over the wing is turbulent, which the researchers want to avoid. ...

• Protecting Your Home From Mold
  KGMB9, HI - Mar 9, 2006
  ... That's 48 hours to protect your home and keep mold at bay. While walls here may look dry, an infrared camera shows moisture nearly three feet up. ...

• Enlivened by the SPIRIT
  Arkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - Feb 26, 2006
  ... in the hotel’s days as a hospital in the 1930 s. The men entered a small storage room and panned around the room with a Flir Systems thermal imaging camera. ...

• Airline passengers may be screened for fever
  Swissinfo, Switzerland - Feb 21, 2006
  ... Patrick Mathys, epidemiologist at the Federal Health Office, told swissinfo that installing thermal imaging cameras at airports was one measure being ...
   

Here is a selection of recent new threads by IR Community members. Feel free to click the links, see how people have responded, and post your own response if you like.

• What is that ?
  I performed an inspection and I try to find what can cause the kind of pattern. I'm not very experienced inspector but I think it can be a kind of moisture.
  
  Do you have any idea?
  
   

• Jumped in with both feet
  Well, I did it. I purchased a P65HS with the current special FLIR is running. I've signed up for Level I & Building Diagnostics training courses. And, I'm starting a new company in WA in which the first focus will be on Building Diagnostics then most likely pursue commercial/Industrial opportunities.
  
  The advice I seek now is what other tools/instruments should I acquire to compliment the camera itself (i.e. Moisture meter, etc)?

• IR Building CONTRACT
  Could anyone share a simple contract they use with clients when performing an IR inspection on a building. I am doing work for medium size condominium complex and it is all word of mouth however I would like to have a short simple contract next time that specifies scope and charges and of course grants permission to be in private property. If anyone has such a contract that would like to share please post here or if rather keep it private send me an e-mail.

• Hollow Core Precast Concrete Roof Deck IR?
  We have been brought in on a building which is in the middle of construction as a third party expert. This building has a 12,000 sq. ft. hollow core precast concrete roof deck, which is like a cmu wall laying horizontally. The roof system has already been installed. During other investigation the general contractor cored into one of the hollow horizontal columns formed by this precast construction and water just poured out. So now the general contractor is worried that this is consistent in the construction and need a means of locating the moisture in these hollow core channels. Is infrared a tool under certain conditions that can be used? If not, what recommendations, besides coring all 12,000 sq. ft. is there to test each hollow core channel?

• ASNT Level I field hours?
  I am a Level II Thermographer and am pursuing my ASNT Level I & II certifications. The ASNT certification is the only certification recognized by my company. My question is: Do the 3 months field experience only count for time behind the camera or does it include analysis and report preparation? And is there someplace official that spells it out?

• Overlapping multiple images for panoramic view
  Is there a program available for putting multiple images together to form a "big" picture, for instance multiple roof shots. I have Irfanview, but it doesn't appear to support this function. I think I read about a Flir program Image Builder, that sounded like it had this capability.

And of course if YOU have a question or want to start a discussion on a topic, we would love to hear from you. Just post a new thread on a message board.

Brainteaser of the Month 

Here is this month's brainteaser. Readers who email us the correct identification and explanation of the thermal pattern in the thermogram are entered into a drawing to win a prize from ITC.

Please put "Brainteaser" as the subject of the message.

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Do you have an interesting image that you think would challenge other thermographers? If so please email me your image (preferably in native .img, .jpg, .tif, .tgw, or .tmw format) with an accompanying visible photo and explanation. If your image is used, you receive a gift as well.

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Congratulations to Wade Wilcox from Canada for his guess. Both Wade and Donny get low emissivity mugs this month.

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