Man tossing hot and cold water balloons (thermal infrared!)

A man tosses a succession of water balloons, alternating between hot and cold, onto a deck. The movie is filmed in thermal infrared, so it shows the temperature, rather than the color, of everything in the scene. The water is ordinary clear water.

For Science!

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Science & Technology

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• thermal
• infrared
• ir
• flir
• heat
• temperature
• sinfrared
• water
• balloon
• fight
• thermography
• splatter
• science
• experiment

[widicamdotnet]

Nice :)

I noticed your videos are sped up... did you do that just for the fun "silent film" effect, or is your camera limited to a lower frame rate?

(The camera i'm thinking about buying is limited to something like 8fps, that's why i'm asking. I gather that has to do with export restrictions on thermal imagers, not a limitation of the sensor.)

[sinfrared]

It's sped up on purpose for the "old timey" look.

[sinfrared]

Also, it looks like you live in Germany.  Is it true that the US has export restrictions to Germany for thermal imagers? It seems silly as there are probably plenty of companies in the EU that make them.

[Jornz9HD]

gruwlijke muziek

[movitmovit]

wierd and cool

[widicamdotnet]

Thanks for the reply :)

Yes, I've meanwhile found another company that sells EU-made cameras operating at 50fps, which are actually *less* expensive with otherwise similar specs (apart from weighing about twice as much and being more rugged). I had found the frame rate limit / export restriction notice on both FLIR (for the US) and NEC (for Japan) imagers; the latter had an explicit list of countries the device may not be shipped to under any circumstances (like, Afghanistan).

[HedlessChkn]

that looks so cool, i wish there were such thing as a low priced thermal camera...