• Gilles_D@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Digital photo cameras often actually filter out infrared. But even if they wouldn’t it probably would be hard to tell if something is warmer than the surrounding by looking at a photo or video. What you need is a specific device that is calibrated for a specific spectrum of infrared, such as a thermographic camera.

    I think there was actually at least one smartphone that had a thermographic camera installed, but that’s a very specific use case for e.g. construction work.