I already owned a FLIR B20 and a FLIR One Pro LT. As a consulting broadcast engineer, I love both of those cameras, but I wanted something on the wireless, "untethered" side to use with my phone or tablet at transmitter, studio, and other sites. The fact that the One Edge Pro has both four times the IR pixels (IR resolution) and longer operating time per battery charge compared to my trusty FLIR One Pro LT made it sound like the perfect solution. FLIR scored another "win" in my book with this new camera. Out of the box, about 20 minutes of charging time before it was back to full charge since leaving the factory, and a quick read of a couple of sentences in the "Getting Started" booklet, and I quickly had it wirelessly connected to the Flir One app which was already installed in my phone. My FLIR One Android app had recently updated automatically, which added the a start screen app choice of connecting to a FLIR One Edge Pro or the One Pro or LT, so a single Android APP facilitates both of those cameras. Sweet. I'm very pleased with the resolution, and the alignment menu option provides for quick and easy alignment of the IR and Digital Camera images, which means the MSX feature (and other image viewing/processing features such as "thermal blending" and "Picture-In-Picture" tools found in the Flir Tools app will line up nicely as well, provided you spend a few seconds using that alignment feature before shooting your thermal image. I've ready many user/purchaser reviews of FLIR (and other brand/model) infrared imaging/thermography cameras where people complain about inaccuracies in the temperatures being sensed compared to actual measured temperatures, etc.. In my experience, that's usually due to lack of awareness of the properties and some nuances of thermography. For folks interested in getting the most temperature sensing accuracy possible, developing an understanding of things such as emissivity, reflectivity, reflected temperature, etc., along with having a few inexpensive accessories at hand (such as black, vinyl electrical tape, and a homemade Lambert radiator/reflector made of a piece of aluminum foil and a piece of cardboard) will go a long way to improving the results achieved and the ability to glean really useful data from the IR images -- not to mention overall satisfaction with the device, assuming they've acquired at least a reasonably decent quality IR camera. As a broadcast engineer, the quality of my work depends a lot on having the right tools. I can see already that my FLIR One Edge Pro is going to see a LOT of use while being relatively easy to use. Combined with FLIR's free Flir Tools software, the new FLIR One Edge PRO adds even more accurate, higher resolution preventive maintenance and troubleshooting power at my disposal, and does so at a price that's very reasonable for what you end up with in your hands. I strongly recommend this camera, unless your demands are such that you just have to spend a few $K on something really super high end. Even though I have an even higher resolution FLIR B20, I rarely pull that big Pelican case and camera out to use it, as the FLIR One PRO LT almost always handled the job. Now that I have the new FLIR One Edge Pro, I'll probably have to remind myself to occasionally pull the One Pro LT out and charge it for those times when I might want it to be at the ready as well.
