Hi all,
I bought a TE-Q1 last year, and found myself quite impressed and pleased with what it can do. However, I have recently been attempting to observe animal activity with it, and run into its limitations. While it has good performance and resolution compared to most any other thermal imager for the price, It's not quite sufficient for that purpose. Additionally, while 9Hz framerate is certainly passable for most purposes, birds and the like can often only be present for a few frames if in flight, so I'm hoping to upgrade that too.
As such, I've found myself looking into VGA imagers; namely the thermapp pro and the TE-V1. I've seen it referenced previously that the thermapp pro is a superior camera to the V1, but unfortunately it seems to be all but unobtainable right now, due to Opgal shifting focus during the pandemic. Information on the V1 is pretty limited, with few examples online, and most of what I can find on the thermapp comes from what I've seen from @UltraPurple (who has generally glowing things to say about it). Can anyone comment much on their personal experience with a V1? From what I've seen it looks good, but an anecdote or two never hurts.
I've also since also noticed that Thermal Expert is selling a new 1024x768 camera (The EX2). Information seems fairly limited on it aside from what I can find from TE themselves. Regardless, I'm looking into it; 1024x768 is some pretty ludicrous resolution for a thermal camera. Does anyone here have any information about it, or used it (Software wise as well, as TE's Windows software does not list it like all their other cameras)? TE unfortunately does not provide the best demonstrations of it's capabilities, IMO, aside from just showing the sheer resolution it has.
Since I'm currently aiming to obtain a 30Hz camera, I'll have to try and sort out legal export from Korea to AU from TE. Whether that's successful or not is up in the air, but if it is I'll have to decide on whether it's worth upgrading to an EX2, as that is only available in 30Hz... In a valuation sense it's not, I don't make money off thermal, but the hardware geek inside me wants one anyway :p.. Can anyone comment on getting 30Hz direct from TE?
I suspect I'll sort out a lot of these details with TE directly once I establish whether an export from Korea will even be possible, as there's rather not much point looking too deeply into it before then.
For those curious, I have been quoted $2700 USD for a V1, and $7500 USD for an EX2 (Couched with the caveat that 30Hz variants are export controlled
). The EX2 price is about the same price per pixel as the V1, and it does include a lens.