Video Introduction to Infrared Cameras

What is an Infrared Camera? What are its main parts? How does it work? This short 2 minute video presented by Atlas Inspection Technologies’ President Darren Billings, answers these questions and also provides basic care and use instructions in a clear and easy to follow format.

What is an Infrared Camera

An infrared camera, also called and IR camera of thermal imager is a type of inspection equipment that uses light from the infrared spectrum to create a visible image made up of the variations in temperature of the object.

Video Infrared Camera Tutorial

For complete operating and maintenance guidelines always refer to the operator’s manual. Plan on beginning your use of the infrared camera with an inspection of the system and its components.

An infrared camera, typically comes with the camera itself along with batteries and a battery charger. The camera utilizes an uncooled microbillometer and specialized lensing to present temperature of an object as an image. Infrared cameras are very sensitive and can therefore give you an excellent image. Camera resolution ranges from 160 x 120 detector arrays to 320 x 240 pixel arrays. In general terms the higher the resolution of the array the farther away you can make an accurate temperature reading.

How to Operate in Infared Camera

Operating an infrared camera is fairly straight forward. However getting accurate temperature readings can be more complicated depending on the environmental conditions, like sunlight, reflections, emissive properties of the material you are inspecting and other factors. Getting images that show relative temperature is achievable with basic proper camera set up. First thing is to turn on the power and let the camera go through it start up process. Once the camera has booted up you can point it at an object of interest and you will see a thermal image of that item. From there you can adjust the range and span of the camera to bring out more or less temperature

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