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Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems
- exmadscientist 6y agoWell 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.
- colincooke 6y agoAs 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-details/flir-systems-acquire-point-grey-research-inc-253-million https://investors.flir.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
- lbotos 6y agoAppreciate you sharing your experience -- I've been considering a FLIR cam, did you find a better alternative?
- alhirzel 6y agothere are none...
- colincooke 6y agoYeah there is nothing comperable. For those with infared needs we're mostly stuck
- jbay808 6y agohttps://thinklucid.com/ 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.
- lhpz 6y agoSeek Thermal is an alternative provider for thermal cameras: https://www.thermal.com/ https://www.thermal.com/
- wlesieutre 6y agoI 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.
- sepples 6y agoThat's actually a "feature" for IR cameras because 9+ FPS brings it into a different category for export control.
- wlesieutre 6y agoHuh, 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.
- garaetjjte 6y agoThere's also i3system/ThermalExpert: http://www.i3-thermalexpert.com/ http://www.i3-thermalexpert.com/
- RyJones 6y agoNot really. GP’s remarks about software quality are spot on.
- immmmmm 6y agoIf 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..
- arisAlexis 6y agosomething was going on, Cathie Wood was buying up for weeks
- tigger0jk 6y agoARKQ'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 https://cathiesark.com/arkq-holdings-of-flir
- mrtweetyhack 6y agoFLIR is an aweful company. This is coming from a customer. Don't buy a FLIR.
- Th3MadScientist 6y agoIf you are going to report on FLIR, at least pronounce the name correctly. It's pronounced "fleer".
- gaudat 6y agoIs 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".
- raindeer3 6y agoForward looking infrared