Talk:Thermographic camera

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Proposal to change article:

There is a need to clarify the difference between Thermal camera and Infrared cameras. Thermal cameras being far infrared and useful in measuring temperature differences, and near infrared being nightvision and cameras working on IR LED illumination. Perhaps a disambiguation page with a link to a near infrared article and another linking to far infrared article or perhaps a change of this article to two sections? I hesitate to make the change myself since the authors of this page obviously know more about the subject than myself but still i feel the ambiguity is too great in this article in its current form and is limiting the articles use in imparting knowlege of the subjects two distinct realms. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by windkin (talk • contribs) 17:13, 26 May 2005.

I agree completely, as a result I decided to be bold and rename the article to thermographic camera. The existing article seems to confuse near and far infrared seeing but focus mostly on far, I'll make a quick pass to remove more of the near IR stuff and it can grow from there. Gmaxwell 15:40, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Should this get mergded with FLIR?---User:Rayc

Yes! --Gmaxwell 07:52, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

But is there a separate article on near infrared cameras for nightvision? And isn't the link at the bottom for more information on other applications purely commercial?--shtove 21:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Infrared_photography, Image_intensifier, and Night vision. Feel free to clean it up. The whole subject area is a bit messy. --Gmaxwell 22:29, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

All the infrared pages are quite a mess with a lot of miss-information and half-truths. I would recommend that firstly there must be an basic Infrared page, then all the other pages leading from that one. Here some of the basics: The infarred (IR) radiation occurs between 0.78um to 1000um (not 14um as in most pages). There is a lot of debate among scholars about the division of the IR spectrum. The most popular being accordong to sensor sensitivity: Near infrared(NIR) 0.78um - 1um Short Wavelength IR (SWIR) 1um - 3um Medium Wavelength IR (MWIR) 3um - 6um Long Wavelength IR (LWIR) 6um - 15um (also referred to alot of the time as the thermal band) Very Long Wavelength IR (VLWIR) 15um - 1000um Pranksta 09:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

It would be useful to have examples of how much these devices cost and where they are sold.