Found the RAZ-iR on X26.com

While searching for new night vision products, I ran across X26.com and the new RAZ-iR product, billed as "infrared cameras for PM, PDM, PPM, and Infrared FLIR Vision".

At first glance the site appears to be nothing more than a link farm for catching traffic related to thermal infrared cameras -- the site includes limited information on a number of products, but no amount of clicking around actually leads to pricing information.

Clicking through leads to x20, x26, and 7b, eventually taking me to ir55, with similar link farming but also some good FLIR images, and thence to imaging1, with a contact form to ask Jim Santana of Sierra Pacific Innovations (SPi) for more information on the RAZ-iR and other products. I also found RAZ-IR specifications and a user guide.

List price on the RAZ-iR SX is $6,900, official street pricing is $5,900.

Turns out the imager is made in China, otherwise known as the Wuhan Guide Infrared M4.

Thermographic camera - Defined

A thermographic camera, sometimes called a FLIR (Forward Looking InfraRed), or an infrared camera less specifically, is a device that forms an image using infrared radiation, similar to a common camera that forms an image using visible light. Instead of the 450–750 nanometer range of the visible light camera, infrared cameras operate in wavelengths as long as 14,000 nm (14 µm).

(Text and image courtesy of Wikipedia)

California vendor a2ti

Today I ran across a2ti, offering rental thermographic cameras and other related services in California.

They use FLIR's S60 with close-up optics for circuit board inspection, achieving temperature resolution down to 100um at temperature differentials as small as 0.06C!

The S60 is a popular, if expensive, camera with a 320 x 240 sensor.  This firm offers both the FLIR S60 and FLIR P60 for rental.