What is the housing made of?
I already wrote at the beginning that the manufacturer offers a product weighing only 9 grams (without macro lens) and speaks of aluminum for the body. I have analyzed this once and come to the same conclusion with the laser drillings. Only pure aluminum was used and none of the usual aluminum-silicon alloys.
The edges were polished and the surface was lightly oxidized. The surface finish indicates a casting process, although an alloy would have been more likely. But it is pure aluminum, also good.
Connectivity and adapter problems
Why Thermal Master includes a Lightning to USB-C adapter is not entirely clear to me, as it implies that the camera or cable can also be used with the USB-C of an iPhone 15 or newer. I have my own, fairly decent collection of such adapters, but I have already reached the technical limits with the recently tested Xinfrared XTHERM II T2S Plus, as there are compatibility problems.
This adapter does not work, so that the camera, regardless of whether you want to use the adapter directly on the iPhone with USB-C or plugged into the extension cable, is unfortunately not recognized by the phone and the software. You can do whatever you want, the device is not recognized.
The whole thing is a bit tricky, but InfiRay offers an extension cable with an integrated adapter that works. So I can only advise everyone to buy exactly the version of the P2 Pro that fits the connection 1:1. Of the 10 adapters in the lab, only one worked in the end. However, the USB version of the camera does not currently work with iOS devices either, for whatever reason. The Lightning version has to be adapted with the specially adapted cable, which is really annoying. However, this also means that you can’t use the camera so easily on a current iPhone with USB-C. A real shame, because it works with the right cable or adapter:

And now? I have such a cable and even more, because I still have the hand mount and the working cable from the Xinfrared shelf, both of which, in combination, I can only warmly recommend to every user. You simply clamp the camera (or the camera and macro lens) into the hand-held holder and then connect the iPhone using the adapter cable (or extension cable for Lightning on the smartphone).
You then have an (almost) fully-fledged, high-quality infrared camera to go, which could then only stumble over its software, because the usability and versatility can really inspire me in everyday life. The “big” Optris camera is only suitable for stationary use on a tripod, with all the advantages but also huge disadvantages for flexible use outside of test workstations.
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