HIKMICRO Pocket2 Thermal Camera Review

Here, I reviewed the Pocket2 thermal camera from HIKMICRO. It has a thermal resolution of 256x192 and offers a lot of cool features such as the ability for you to view and control the device wirelessly from a smart phone. The thermal images quality is excellent due to it’s low NETD (40mK). Product link: www.amazon.com/stores/page/E0...
HIKMICRO Pocket series: www.hikmicrotech.com/en_us/in...
00:00 Introduction, specifications
03:23 Basic operations
07:27 Fixed temperature range mode
09:44 Operating with a smart phone
12:49 Screen cast, using as webcam, PC software
15:02 Circuit boards, macro lens
17:55 More sample IR images, conclusions

[@bastelfix]

thank you for this comprehensive review! Learned a lot about the possibilities my thermal cam ...

[@grerlab2777]

Thanks for the Pocket 2 thermal camera review. I don't regret the additional purchase of the macro lens. After doing some tests, I quickly realized that it was becoming a troubleshooting tool... A tool to discover... Thanks again...

[@d00dEEE]

That manual mode temperature range is great, solves one of my pet peeves with systems like this.

[@matthieu8292]

thank you ! very nice and affordable solution

[@aktronics]

Impressive connectivity, macro and refresh rate 😲

[@Dennis-uc2gm]

I'm putting this on my shopping list. I've been looking at imaging camera's on and off. This one kind of stands out on capability. Yeah it's a little more $$, but as they say you get what you pay for. 👍

[@takenusername]

I strongly recommend this camera. I wish I had bought it. The Topdon TC003 was a lot cheaper (nearly half the price) but it’s so big and clunky. If I could choose again, I’d get this one

[@user-rx1oz3mu6v]

Is there a way to turn off the spot meter and temperature gage while taking thermal images at the same time?

[@seek3n]

What do you think the technical specs compare to flir c5? Is it true? Is the thermal pixles really twice as much? You know like fake 4K tv (they just use digital image enhance)

[@KerryWongBlog]

I don't know which sensor module HIKMICRO Pocket2 uses, but the image quality is similar to that of the Infiray P2 which uses a Tiny1-C sensor module and has the same resolution (256x192).

[@simontay4851]

Why do thermal cameras only have a fixed focus lens. Would be good to have a thermal camera with an auto focus lens like visible light digital cameras.

[@yalol]

Can you do a review on FNIRSI DPOX180H ?

[@KerryWongBlog]

One thing I can assure you is that the claimed 180 MHz bandwidth is most certainly over inflated. I can probably get my hands on one if there's enough interest.

[@yalol]

@@KerryWongBlog ok you suggest any good oscilloscope?

[@chuxxsss]

The only problem is its high price at 899 AuD, out of my range. But a very good camera, one day.

[@cklnet]

I believe Pocket2 is known as K20 in China. Based on the specification sheet, K20 supports only Chinese and NETD is 50mk whereas Pocket2 supports multi languages and NETD is 40mk. I wonder if there is difference in hardware which leads to a 10mk NETD difference. Any idea?

[@KerryWongBlog]

Don't know anything about the K20. But if the NETD spec is different it would using a different IR sensor.

[@rokiedecentra9656]

If only it had manual focus..... The two fixed extremes aren't as useful as fine control