This camera has helped me find a leak..even with its limited resolution, terrible clarity and difficulty to focus.
I had a roof leak and paid a guy to fix it but it still leaked.
Here's the roof in question, it's got old solar panels with tons of penetrations and a second roof with poor lapping.
It was a nightmare to find a leak because there were SOO many potential places for a leak. A roofer sealed all the potential spots but it will leaked enough to damage drywall in the ceiling.
After this last rain I went into the attic and checked a few spots
Almost all penetrations looked like this. Hot and dry as a bone...but what about that spot in the back?
I pulled back some insulation and found this spot, barely damp to the touch.
So I pulled more insulation and checked out the other side of the joist.
Bingo. You can see where the moisture collects and drips down the joist.
It's the old supply/return line that fed the abandoned solar panels. Rain had been running down the panels and trickling down this supply line.
But the image quality is nowhere close to what they advertise.
And for giggles, here's some pics when I took the family out today this morning, it was in the upper 80s and humid.
Looking at people in a museum from a balcony, distances range from 40-100yds or so.
Cars are about 50yd away
I'm disappointed with it. It's always hazy, even when I know the thermal variance is more than 30 degrees between the hottest object and coldest object, it is hazy and shows objects as being within 20-30 degrees.
I point at my dog inside and he's 91. Outside on a cool morning he's 72.
So I boiled a kettle and put ice in a cup and compared to thermometer results and it was ok for this controlled test. It has potential but I don't know why the results the rest of the time are so terrible.
Maybe I got a dud, I'm probably going to return it and get a therm-app or save for a better thermal.
Another edit
Here's a photo of two soccer fields, the nearest trash cans are 30yd away, the middle ones between the fields are 100yd away, and the last set of trash cans by the tree line is 170yds away.
Here's the image through compact pro
The air temp was 75 and the cans were 130 from the sun.
I had my kids run to the furthest cans and back. I could see them to the first set of cans, then they were very hard to see as they went to the second set and I couldn't see them at all as they ran to the final set.
I think the camera isn't sensitive enough to pick them up as they get further...maybe it would do better on a colder day.
I emailed seek to see if this is normal performance.
Can anyone let me know if my expectations are too high?
Is this performance decent for its price point?