seek thermal shotpro thermal imager camera review

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You can barely see the wall studs with the ShotPRO, but they’re pretty obvious with the E6. Just for fun, I turned off the image blending and MSX on both cameras for this last image. For commentary on the images, check on my video above. Click on any of these images for a larger version. Just enough real image to give stuff context. I turned on the image blending feature for the ShotPRO, and set it to what felt like about 80% infrared. I went around my house and took a bunch of images with the Seek ShotPRO and the FLIR E6. For home inspection work, I prefer the wider field of view. The quality of the image suffers because of the wider field of view, but I’m ok with that. This camera has a 57° field of view, while the E6 has a 45°. For comparison, the E6 has a thermal sensitivity of <0.06☌. The thermal sensitivity of this camera is listed at <70mK, which equates to <0.07☌. Just like Seek’s Reveal Pro, this camera has a resolution of 320×240, which is four times the resolution of the E6 (160×120). Resolution, sensitivity, and field of view The image blending is nice to help give images context, but it’s not nearly as nice as FLIR’s MSX, which basically draws white lines on the edges of everything in your infrared image, giving it a superior image.

I only boosted the animation from Seek because I couldn’t get the slider to work properly. Let me reiterate, I took this video to demonstrate the functionality of the slider. Not to show how poorly it functions. When I finally got it to work, I wasn’t doing anything differently. I took a video to demonstrate how the slider worked, but it took me over 30 seconds to get the slider to respond in this clip. I have to touch the slider over and over again to get it to respond. Occasionally, it will respond to my finger, but most of the time it doesn’t. Unfortunately, the slider is very difficult to operate. The animation below, which I boosted from Seek’s website, shows how this works: You simply move a slider on the side of the screen, and it adjusts how much infrared vs visible image is displayed. My hope was that this would be a more affordable alternative to competitor FLIR’s MSX technology, so I was excited to test this camera out. What really attracted me to this camera was the image blending option. On the not-so-bright side, the light is comparable to what you’ll find on a mobile phone, making it useless for home inspection work. This camera comes with a built-in LED light, which turns on and off with a touch of the power button. A 4-second video recording was 64 MB, and a 1-minute recording was also 64 MB, so go figure.

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This camera also records MP4 video in 640×480 format. That’s great, provided you only take images. It has an internal memory of approximately 3.5 GB, which means you have room for over 6,500 images. Images are stored in JPG format, and they’re all 512 KB, 640×480. This camera has a USB-C charging port, which I love.

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The menu options were also very intuitive I quickly figured out how to blend images and adjust them so they looked right. I don’t need a huge list of menu options to use it for a home inspection. The menu options are limited and basic, and that’s fine with me. The outside of the camera is covered in what feels like hard rubber, making it very ‘grippy’ and making it feel durable. It’s even thicker on the side of the capture button to give you a better grip on the camera. There are only two buttons on the device a power button and the image capture button. It’s a bit chunkier than a mobile phone, but it has the familiar feel of a lens in the front and a screen on the other side, and it has a touchscreen as well. The ShotPRO is shaped like a mobile phone, much like FLIR’s C2 and C3 cameras. My preferred infrared camera for home inspections is the FLIR E6, so I compared the ShotPRO to that one several times in this post. This gives the ability to blend infrared with real images, which promises to give images a better context. This camera offers a new feature from Seek, which they call SeekFusion. Seek Thermal has a relatively new pocket-sized infrared camera called the ShotPRO, which retails for $699.