[Manawyrm] and [Toble_Miner] found this was true of a particular inexpensive thermal camera that ships ... a SC240N variant of the InfiRay C200 infrared camera, which ships with a Hisilicon ...

[CCrome] admits it may well be the cheapest and worst IR camera available ... If you need some inspiration for a use case, look at the thermal camera contest from a few years back.

I’m talking about an infrared thermal imaging camera. The better ones take photos and shoot video. Armed with one of these ...

usually in the near or short-wavelength infrared; and passive cameras, which detect the thermal radiation given off by a warm object, typically in the mid- or long-wavelength infrared, without the ...

Thermal imagers work because they have a special hardware, the infrared detector, which helps the camera see heat emissions .