FLIR C5 Compact Thermal Camera

Purchased used. Appears to be in very good shape. This is apparently a discontinued product. I think my Seek has better imagery but this may be older FLIR technology. Anyway, it is what it is and performs ok.

Have been using this camera for 8+ months and so far have had no issues and decent battery life.

Battery life could be better; otherwise it’s very detailed in picture.

Pro: Great diagnostic tool for hunting down hot/cold spots

Cons: No expandable memory, shutter button hard to press

Every function you get on one of the bulky FLIR handle cameras is on this one, plus report building capability. It’s small, compact and has far more crisp detail in the photos (color, b&w, InfraRed) than any other product I’ve seen under $20,000. Why carry an elephant across the desert when you could carry a mouse?

This is a very inexpensive IR camera that is well made. I have had a few issues where it lost sync between the two sensors (visible and infrared), but a reboot of the camera resolved it. Very easy to use, but note it is not a high resolution IR camera. I also bought the E8 for $3K and the more expensive camera has dramatically better resolution. This is a good camera to get started with, but I like the E8 for serious thermodynamic analysis. Not that the resolution is not good enough for small electronics.

I would buy this unit again if I lost it!
Great affordable tech!

lo compre para mi marido y esta encantado, es pequea y el es fontanero justo para el

Unit is simple and easy to use. Well worth the money. You can tell if cloth towels have been used, if a seat has been recently sat in, and even if someone has drank something recently by looking at their lips. The dual picture mode is awesome! I ghost hunt with it and would like a larger megapixel for that purpose; Not enough experience to say that it is valuable for that either. I was also hoping to use it for locating nocturnal animals, but everything is equivalent to a ‘whiteout’ type condition from residual heat; That’s just the way thermal works unfortunately.

Sehr leicht zu bedienen, auch auf Deutsch umzustellen.
Wurde aber zurckgegeben, da fr diesen Preis die Kamera auch funktionieren sollte, hier aber kein WiFI einzurichten war.
Deswegen ist diese Kamera fr 670 einiges zu Teue

I love this little camera. I am a construction management professional that likes to keep a bag of diagnostic tools with me when I’m in the field. This unit helped me source a water leak emanating from a commode 15 feet away from the visible water damage. I have been able to isolate the location of water penetration through a single ply roofing membrane which is usually very difficult to do. My only minor complaint is the low resolution of images. That, is a very small complaint considering the thousands of dollars that I have saved my clients with this tool so far, though.

Easy to use and has very sophisticated options. Paid for itself in first day of use.

best is size, worst is recharging lost charger and batteries dont hold charge long.

The Flir C3 is a must for anyone in the restoration industry, we use it in every water damage loss. It is exactly what we needed to show our customers the areas affected. Overall a great product.

Good high end quality product used mainly in a home renovation project for detecting hot spots in electrical wiring, and cold spots due to insulation deficiencies.
In my work environment I have seen the benefits to identify electrical hot spots early as these can cause more energy consumption and also a potential risk to start a fire. The unit itself seems to be working quite well and have revealed a few problem areas already that requires attention.
Looked at other less expensive options where a camera unit plugs into an iPhone, but were not convinced that the iPhone option will continue to work as good in the long run vs. this compact thermal camera unit due to the fact that manufacturers of iPhone’s tend to change the connectors over time and older accessories cannot be used on these newer devices.

Molto pratica, piatta e poco ingombrante. La qualit delle immagini ottima, e il fatto di avere la sovraimpressione dei contorni degli oggetti grazie al mix delle immagini normale e termica, rende le foto comprensibili e anche identificabili a distanza di tempo.

So far so good! Looks like each item is quality checked and comes with an inspection card and signed. I’m mentioning this because the inspector didn’t wear gloves and my tool along with the box had oily fingerprints everywhere.

Tool works great.

Eine “Immer-Dabei-Wrmebildkamera”, die ausreichende Informationen erfasst ist besser, als eine Profi-Kamera, die nur nach vorheriger Planung an Bord ist. Die FLIR C2 belastet das Gepck nicht wesentlich und verkrzt auf jeden Fall die Suche nach technischen Problemen (in meinem Fall Wrmebrcken). Kunden sagen Bilder zudem meist mehr, als Datenreihen, auch das ist in der tglichen Parxis ein groer Vorteil.

Schade ist, da es offensichtlich nicht mglich ist, das “FLIR-Logo” in der linken unteren Bildecke auszublenden. Die ohnehin geringe nutzbare Pixel-Zahl der Bilder wird dadurch unntig weiter reduziert.

What a neat little helpful tool. For my job I use it for troubleshooting HVAC issues mostly, but also for maintenance on many different machines. Check out the temps on bearings and other moving parts, electrical, check diff type of efficiencies. If youve never used this technology like myself prior, you are going to notice its a litttttle different than movies portray, but still sweet!

Le seul petit bmol concerne le logiciel Flir Tools, gratuit, mais il faut passer par l’Appel Store (qui est une calamit : mot de passe, adresse mail, connaissance de l’anglais !, etc…); menus assez pauvres et Aide vanescente.
Remarque plus gnrale, mais j’en profite: quand est-ce que les traducteurs de notices en franais sauront-il que “actuel” en anglais veut dire “effectif” en franais et non pas “actuel”?.

For the price you can’t beat it, I’ve already noticed when they redid my walls after having a branch come through my roof two years ago that there is a big section of wall that backs up to the attic that has no insulation and the temperature difference is about 20F so now I can already start using this to save money once I get up there and add insulation.

I love the build of this as it is rugged, just wish they did have a cover for the sensor so you don’t accidentally touch it, I’d feel much more comfortable keeping this in my jacket pocket. Unfortunately I purchased this a month before the new C3 came out (with Wifi, video, and picture-in-picture capability). Once the C3 came out Amazon dropped their price on this another $50, I reached out Amazon to see if they could do a price match as they used to but unfortunately they took that feature away in mid 2016.

The quality is good, not the best, but much better than that that I’ve used in the past with multi thousand dollar units. The technology has come a long ways and is still growing. The images are much better quality than those of the SEEK or other cheaper thermal units.

Though there is one that attaches to a phone and uses that camera that is over a grand but the sensor on that is much bigger, so you can capture more intricate details and also change lenses so you can do wide angle or telephoto. This FLIR is only wide angle – which works great but if you’re wanting greater detail from further away you won’t be able to achieve this without getting closer to the object.

Software – FLIR’s software on this is top notch, I’m very impressed just what I can do in it and even change the thermal range and colors. You can even set it up to only show colors above or below a certain range.

Customer Service – I reached out almost immediately as it seemed the sensor was somewhat off, such as if I was to look at my hand you could see an obvious offset between the picture and the thermal image (as they use both and overlap). This is great at distances of over 4′ with being accurate but I’m planning on using it with wiring inside electrical panels of boats. Generally it is a rats nest in there and I don’t want to see a hot wire and mistake it as the wrong one as the image would be shifted off. Anyway the customer service guy was top notch and able to answer my questions and concerns. He is still currently waiting on me to send him some more photos at which I’ve been lazy about. He even sent me a whole document on learning about emissivitiy and how to set it to what it should be (I’ve always been used to keeping this at 1 but I wanted to know why and when it should be set, this doc helped me)

Overall I’m impressed and loving it, I’m also hoping to use it in my boat as I have a leak in my teak deck and need to find out where is saturated, I know you can use thermal imaging to find water saturated material but I’m not sure how well this unit will do that. So far I like this and would even love to someday get one with different lenses and bigger sensor, but for now I’m happy.

Oh, distance wise, I can’t detect too far, such as over 100′ and I’m not getting objects I’d assume to be hot outside, this isn’t a problem just an observation. This is more of a home inspection camera and is what I’m going to use it as when I do house hunting.

Really great. I like it better than the Flir one. No fumbling around, plugging in the extender piece, then the module to my phone. Just pull it out and turn it on. The one feature I do miss is the hot spot/cold spot option in the palette options. I hope Flir comes out with that as a downloadable update to the color palettes. Smooth transaction in every way otherwise.