Mid and longwave thermal cameras for research and development

The capacity to accurately measure thermal events over an extensive range of targets and temperatures is essential for industrial, defence, and manufacturing research and development applications. FLIR has introduced the FLIR A6780 in two models, the A6780-MWIR (midwave infrared) and A6780-LWIR (longwave infrared) camera systems to make those tasks more straightforward to execute.

The new cooled thermal imaging cameras provide manual and motor-focus lens options, allowing the flexibility needed to maximise the amount of measurement pixels on the area of interest despite size and distance. Featuring 327,680-pixel (640 x 512) resolution detectors, the new models provide a suite of lens options from the 200mm telephoto lens to the 3X microscope lens, which can deliver a five micron-per-pixel spatial resolution on extremely small targets. These systems also provide advanced synchronisation options, short exposure times, and high-speed windowed frame rates to ensure researchers always capture meaningful thermal data. The internal three-position warm filter wheel mechanism further enables users to swiftly switch between standard and high-temperature ranges with a click of a button, eliminating the need to manually change neutral density filters.

Also, a single standard Gigabit Ethernet connection provides the control of all camera features and thermal data streaming into company's Research Studio software which runs on PC, Mac or Linux. The workflow of software is simple to comprehend. It enables researchers to quickly and efficiently display, record, and analyse accurate thermal data from the device in any one of the available 22 languages.