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07-JUL-2018 Paul

Hot Foot Hot Kitty

Just playing around with my FLIR One thermal camera attachment I use on the job seeking hot spots in electrical systems. Never seriously considered entering one of the images from it before since the IQ isn't much to get excited about.

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Canon Image Challenge10-Jul-2018 13:00
That is a fantastic story about the repairs you guys did on the therma camera. I really didn’t realize they were commercially available back in the 80s and can’t imagine how much that cost. Mine is just a simple little device that plugs into the iPhone lighting port and cost about 140 bucks or so. I think I got it on sale. Paul
Canon Image Challenge10-Jul-2018 08:24
I like the Cat's eyeballs! Now that is some seeing. Traveller
jimhwy09-Jul-2018 20:18
I remember working on a "Thermovision" camera that a customer had connected backwards to a car battery may years ago (back in 1982, or so), and it used liquid nitrogen to cool a single photodiode that was the detector. It had two large ruby prisms that spun (one to sweep the image vertically, and one to sweep it horizontally) over that single detector "point" to form the images. It was like a television camera except that the sweep was formed optically/mechanically. Very clever!

He used it to survey electrical installations, mostly, finding current paths that shouldn't exist (like current finding a path to ground through a hand-rail at a substation), or just seeing that the loads were imbalanced in three-phase systems, etc.

Anyhow, once I had it repaired, the other technicians where I worked and I played with it extensively before the customer picked it up. You could clearly see where a person had walked across a concrete floor 45 minutes before, just by the tiny amount of heat their shoes had left in the concrete! It was truly an amazing gadget, especially for 1982 or so.

Notice the higher temperature of the cat's ears. Cats use their ears sort of like "radiators" to help control body temperature by adjusting the blood flow through them. I can always tell if one of our cats is cold by feeling their ears, so they've become accustomed to having their ears rubbed and felt any time they get up on my lap.

This photo does, indeed, tell a story. Bare feet, kitty looking up to see which camera Dad is using on me this time! ;)
Canon Image Challenge09-Jul-2018 19:46
Well, it may be a throwaway to you...but to me it is fabulous. Re Topaz, colors are fine...what would it add? Traveller
Canon Image Challenge09-Jul-2018 14:25
I don’t use this camera attachment often so I don’t remember but I think there is a setting to where I can turn off the temperature, there are several color pallets to use but this one is my preferred. I may play with it but in realty I was goofing around. I had one where i stood in one spot for about 10 seconds then moved my feet and the floor showed the heat from where I was standing. Paul
Canon Image Challenge09-Jul-2018 12:34
Traveller - I suggested the Topaz because Paul, despite his protesting at times, is quite the artist with it.

The healing tool in Photoshop CC should be able to get the temp out pretty easily.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge09-Jul-2018 10:46
No Topaz, in my opinion, but can you remove the temperature from the center? I am good with it there, but this could be stronger, imho, without it. Just curious. Traveller
Canon Image Challenge09-Jul-2018 10:28
His feet look even hotter. Shoes just removed?

Dave
Canon Image Challenge09-Jul-2018 01:51
Personally, I think this has great potential.

Combine this with a touch of Topaz - and Voila.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge08-Jul-2018 19:18
Paul's are....!....;>}}}} Traveller
Guest 08-Jul-2018 13:48
Hot-headed cat?

Not sure what the "gutter" remark is rebutting. Knees are not naughty.
Canon Image Challenge08-Jul-2018 13:09
Seriously! Love the cat...Traveller
Canon Image Challenge08-Jul-2018 10:59
You guys minds are in the gutter, here is a hungry cat waiting for breakfast.
Canon Image Challenge08-Jul-2018 09:45
Yeah....LOL...this could maybe use a bit of a bottom crop...but the thermal idea is fascinating...a full face self portrait? Traveller
Guest 08-Jul-2018 01:45
Um, nice knees?