Just Secured a Vintage IR Camera

I just secured a vintage IR camera.

http://germanshepherdpet.com/Thermo.jpg

The InterNACHI Museum.

It will make a nice display item for this subject.

In today’s money, it would cost about $250,000 to buy. Back then, they had to pay around $8K per year
to maintain the camera and replace the liquid nitrogen every month. The life expectancy of the unit was
about 5 years.

InterNACHI article on this subject…
History of Infrared Thermography

Cool.

I hope you took a TI class first. lol

Interesting note… the IR detectors in this camera had to be kept below -360 degrees in order to keep working. That is what the liquid nitrogen was for.

http://www.kazak.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/sublim2.jpg

Very cool :wink:

Brings back memories, I ran one of those for almost two years it was way older than 5 years old , It had a swappable zoom lense for shooting power sub stations, also the nitrogen was cheap, and fun to play with.

Nice