1. Introduction
Thank you for choosing the X200xp Thermal Imaging Camera. With its small size, rugged design, and simplicity, you can now focus on the job at hand, rather than the camera in your hand.
Before using this camera, please read these instructions carefully, and retain them for future reference.
•Welcome to Infrared
L-3 Infrared Products (IP) has long been a leader in the production and development of military products based on infrared thermal imaging. In an effort to make this technology more widely available, L-3 IP’s engineers and scientists developed many unique ways of translating infrared energy into visible imagery. Now L-3 IP is providing affordable thermal imaging solutions for fire, law enforcement, marine, security, and other commercial uses.
Infrared energy, often referred to as “infrared” or “IR,” is electromagnetic radiation that travels in a straight line through space, similar to visible light. Although infrared shares some of the properties of visible light, its different wavelength has several unique characteristics. For instance, materials that are opaque to visible light may be transparent to infrared, and vice–versa. Also, unlike visible light, which is given off by ordinary objects only at very high temperatures (e.g. light bulbs), long wavelength infrared (7–14 ∝m) is emitted by all objects at ordinary temperatures. This means infrared is all around us all the time, even in the dark. Different objects give off varying amounts of infrared, depending on the temperature of the object.
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