These are pictures of one of the Infrared cameras my husband uses for his work. I will also be posting some really wild looking infrared shots that he took with it, so stay tuned.

This camera is strictly a tool used for thermography. My husband uses it to diagnose problems with electrical and mechanical equipmenmt used in our electric utilities distribution and generation systems here in NJ.

He uses these cameras to inspect overhead wires, transformers, sub-stations, generating stations, generating equipment, motors, and other things that have to do with the electric utilities infrastructure. This tool saves millions of dollars every year by diagnosing potential problems with the electric utilities infratructure, before it becomes a major problem that can cause a major equipment failure.

While these cameras are very expensive, around $50,000 US, they are not used as an artistic medium, so the pictures these cameras produce are not meant for artistic expression. As a matter of fact, my huband is an engineer, not a photographer, technically this part of his job is thermography.

Other uses for these types of cameras include law enforcement; finding fugitives, fire department; finding people in heavy fire and smoke conditions, military and border security, among other things. The cameras used in those cases use the same kind of technology but typically aren't as sophisticated however. They work by finding differences in temperatures of the subject. This particular camera can read temperatures within 1% accuracy.