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Balloon take-off thermal images
Sometimes, fortune smiles.
Making our way on a 400 mile journey down the motorway, the car computer beeped and said it had detected severe congestion ahead. We accepted its suggested diversion and ended up driving past a park where a hot air balloon was preparing to lift off. There was easy access and good parking so I stopped, pulled out my Therm-App thermal imager and fulfilled one of my ambitions - getting some close-up images of a hot air balloon!
Lift-off was imminent so there wasn't time for any finesse (or to take any video) but the place I happened to park was pretty well perfect, with an unobstructed view at just the right distance for the Therm-App 13mm f/1.0 germanium lens to work at its frame-filling best.
There wasn't even time to get out a stills camera. Just three minutes and thirteen seconds elapsed between me getting out of the car and the last take-off shot. In that time I took 56 thermal images, swapping palettes and adjusting temperature settings at breakneck speed. I'm glad ThermAppPlus is so easy to use!
The small visible-light image was actually taken from my car dashcam, hence the poor quality. The thermal images were taken from the other side of the balloon. Perhaps you can just see the white blobs of parked cars in the visible image - that's where I parked, too.
This was one diversion that brought a truly unexpected bonus.
Comments are warmly welcomed.
Balloon take-off thermal images
Sometimes, fortune smiles.
Making our way on a 400 mile journey down the motorway, the car computer beeped and said it had detected severe congestion ahead. We accepted its suggested diversion and ended up driving past a park where a hot air balloon was preparing to lift off. There was easy access and good parking so I stopped, pulled out my Therm-App thermal imager and fulfilled one of my ambitions - getting some close-up images of a hot air balloon!
Lift-off was imminent so there wasn't time for any finesse (or to take any video) but the place I happened to park was pretty well perfect, with an unobstructed view at just the right distance for the Therm-App 13mm f/1.0 germanium lens to work at its frame-filling best.
There wasn't even time to get out a stills camera. Just three minutes and thirteen seconds elapsed between me getting out of the car and the last take-off shot. In that time I took 56 thermal images, swapping palettes and adjusting temperature settings at breakneck speed. I'm glad ThermAppPlus is so easy to use!
The small visible-light image was actually taken from my car dashcam, hence the poor quality. The thermal images were taken from the other side of the balloon. Perhaps you can just see the white blobs of parked cars in the visible image - that's where I parked, too.
This was one diversion that brought a truly unexpected bonus.
Comments are warmly welcomed.