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Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems

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As someone who has used FLIR cameras, and other industrial imaging systems I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand the continued concentration of specialist camera tech is bad for the market (FLIR a few years ago acquired point grey [0], a competitor). On the other hand given my poor experience with FLIR systems (bad software, bad interfacing) if that continues it might be a good opportunity for a newcomer to shake things up.

[0]: https://investors.flir.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...

Appreciate you sharing your experience -- I've been considering a FLIR cam, did you find a better alternative?

there are none...

Yeah there is nothing comperable. For those with infared needs we're mostly stuck

https://thinklucid.com/

This is a new company created by a bunch of ex- Point Grey engineers who left FLIR. They're worth keeping an eye on.

Seek Thermal is an alternative provider for thermal cameras: https://www.thermal.com/

I like how their phone accessory Seek Compact camera is advertised as having “< 9 Hz frame rate.” I’m sure it’s fine but that’s a strange way of listing it.

That's actually a "feature" for IR cameras because 9+ FPS brings it into a different category for export control.

Huh, interesting! It makes sense in that context.

Having never tried one of these, I wonder if they take that slow camera stream and do higher framerate image stabalization on the phone to make it less jerky when hand-held.

There's also i3system/ThermalExpert: http://www.i3-thermalexpert.com/

Not really. GP’s remarks about software quality are spot on.

If your ready paying your camera the price of a small car, Xenics has a few alternatives that work well. They also have a support team who replies to your questions.

It's important to note that some technologies (Micro-bolometers, InGaAs) have export restrictions due to applications for weapons systems, etc..

Well that's discouraging. I always hate having to interact with any Teledyne company. They're not quite down to Danaher/Fortive's level, but they seem to do their best to try. FLIR, in contrast, was merely obscenely expensive.

something was going on, Cathie Wood was buying up for weeks

ARKQ's holdings of FLIR went from ~2.5% of the fund to ~3.75% over the last 2 months, both from purchasing more and price increase.

https://cathiesark.com/arkq-holdings-of-flir

If you are going to report on FLIR, at least pronounce the name correctly. It's pronounced "fleer".

Is there an official source about this?

I thought it sounds like "fur" with an L. Or FLIR is an abbreviation of something and it should be pronounced as individual letters.

By the way, English is a bad language to write pronunciation of words in. I had a hard time not to make the "/ɛ/" sound when seeing "ee".

Forward looking infrared

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