How is the FLIR laser distance measurer accessible/supposed to work?

[Arthur Nieuwland]

Hi! Does anyone know how to extract or where to find the laser-determined distance from a FLIR thermogram?

For our project it is important that we know how far an object was when a thermogram was taken. For this we want to use the laser-determined distance, because our photographers don't have the time to measure it manually.

We looked at the object distance parameter, but for several thermograms we took, the embedded object distance metadata did not watch the laser-determined distance presented on the camera's screen. For example, for 2 thermograms the laser measured respectively 2.6 and 4.9 meters distance (shown on screen), while the object distance parameter is 10.0 We have an FLIR E75s.

Does anyone have tips?