Originally Posted by
Kaerous
I'm sure the glass has something to do with it. Same difference between a smart phone camera (fraction of $600 price) and a decent DSLR (thousands). Throw in fine adjustments required for shooting optics, etc and I can see why they're 30x the price.
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That's a completely different operating system though. A better comparison would be a smart phone camera and a point-and-shoot camera.
As far as I know, a small FLIR thermal imager works the exact same way as a large FLIR thermal imager.
Originally Posted by
SkyPup
The lens is made out of pure elemental germanium, (which is a rare earth element) since glass does NOT pass long wave IR.
Germanium is 1/2+ the cost of a thermal weapon scope.
That makes sense. However, why can't something like (but obviously not exactly) the product in the OP be used for a weapon thermal optic? Not enough resolution? Not enough FOV?
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