NEW "Red Hot" technology for treasure hunting is here right now.....

[Anonymous]

.....and available for about 3-5 grand, less on used units. It is "Infra-Red Thermal Imaging" cameras. If is far superior to just std I.F. or night vision by allowing objects even slightly warmer than its background to be visually detected over a wide range of ambient temperatures!!! It comes as a hand held video type camera (or helmet mounted version used by fire and military). Logic says its potential use in treasure hunting is to wait until late afternoon until the surface dirt, rock, etc has cooled off somewhat, most models will automatically adjust the internally cooled CCD device to detect the hottest parts of the ground (or the warmest object in any environment) where metallic items (coins + relics) that are slightly warmer, due to releasing the residual heat collected during the day over a longer period of time, will create a warm spot directly above themselves. Since no discrimination ,other than its physical size, is available yet, one could use it when foliage is minimum or nonexistent and find old sites just by the shear quantity of hot spots visually seen through the camera while walking in a plowed field, along a creek, in a large grove of old trees or large expanses of forest, etc and then use your detector to identify each warm item!!! For more info, see www.X20.org/thermal for the current cameras available now. Hopefully as fire departments buy them to detect hot rooms behind closed doors the price will come down. Anyone who can afford to buy one now or split the cost among several of your favorite partners should give us all some feedback on its effectiveness. I predict it will become the hottest tool for detectorist and archaeologist to find sites that no amount of research or eyeball reconnaissance would locate as soon as the word spreads!!! I'm saving up for mine now!! Happy Trails always, JD

 

[Anonymous]

Why? Because it excels in locating large metallic items (strong-arm box, concentration of gold coins in decomposed saddlebags etc.) close to the surface for obvious reasons- large shallow objects absorb and give off more heat (a large whitish-orange image on a blue background i.e. the surrounding matrix) which is easier to see from a greater distance even during the hottest part of the day than a small object buried deeply right next to you. The military uses a modified version of the new light weight cameras hip-mounted with a swing open optic LCD for one eye mounted on their helmet to locate landmines in worn torn countries with great accuracy during broad daylight!!! I saw it in a documentary recently. Who will be the first in your state to use an "IFTI Detector" to find their first cache in hours or days instead of years or decades??????? Chances are we will never know since cache finders rarely tell others of their success for obvious reasons. Maybe they will discreetly post here to motivate the rest of us to get in on the ground floor of what I perceive to potentially be the greatest tool since the invention of the metal detector for the treasure hunting fraternity!!!! See them at X20.org/thermal. Good luck gentlemen...

 

[Anonymous]

seven years now, full time. There are a couple pictures posted down below that I took last week.
My camera will do a 1 ft square at 200ft to with a 1/10 of a degree accuracy.
My camera lists at 50-60 thousand dollars.
If a person ever gets one he would make a thousand times more by doing electrical inspections than he would ever do hunting treasure.

 

[Anonymous]

a FLIR PM 695. It will be a heck of a long time before you buy them for 5 grand. If I could I would retire and make 800 bucks a day inspecting :0)
The old Tech is the cooled cameras. They used to be cooled with liquid nitrogen, then the cooled cameras like the PM 390. Now we use the uncooled tech which is the PM 695.
It costs 3 grand a month to rent a camera when ours is out for repair. Don't even ask how much repair is :0)
I will post a couple picts today