The 8849 Tank 5 Pro puts a FLIR thermal camera in your pocket

Rugged phones usually compete on the obvious things: how far you can drop them, how long the battery lasts. The 8849 Tank 5 Pro competes on something rather more interesting to anyone who works with cameras — a built-in FLIR thermal imaging camera. Details are on the 8849 site. Why a thermal camera is genuinely useful The Tank 5 Pro’s headline feature over the standard Tank 5 is a 95-degree ultra-wide thermal camera built around a FLIR Lepton 3.1R sensor, with sensitivity down to 0.05°C. That is not a gimmick for a working photographer or videographer. A thermal camera spots a light or a modifier overheating before it fails on set. It reveals whether a laptop or a mini PC is throttling under a long export by showing exactly where the heat is building. It checks whether an LED panel is running evenly across its surface. And for anyone shooting...