Can I know where have you purchased the Camera and cost of it
If it's mine.
Then I got it from eBay on an auction back in late 2017 or early 2018 (It doesn't look like your cant go past 2019 in old account-purchase on eBay so I can't link to the "listing" also to put below info into perspective)
It was a seller from the USA, that I notice had numerous for sale' with no minimum price, and keep putting a new one up every time one auction was done, so I finally took the plunge, and got it for a tad over 300USD (it was listed as new Seek Pro iOS) but nothing else, not even the info that, it in fact, was a Fast Frame version (18Hz (FPS) not the standard 9Hz)
After I had won the auction the seller then contacted me and asked that I paid him directly
usually a red flag, but often it is just a tactic to circumvent massive eBay fees that are in play...but in general I had not a huge problem with it, as it still would be Paypal and my auction winning price was quite a bit lower then what the other ones had been going for (2017/2018), so the seller had an obvious motive to fx cancel and then put it up again and get a significantly higher closing price, and not least as I also wanted the seller to do something for me, and label the parcel at sub 12 USD, as otherwise, the price would elevate with another +50% after danish tolltax, + handling fee, + another 25% danish VAT of the total sum.
and in the past, I also got way better protection by having to go through PayPal dispute than fx using eBay support and their awfull-buyer-protection. that I'm not a fan of, even though one's payment is done by Paypal inside eBay... same with the time' that is like 3 months inside eBay and 6 months with direct Paypal, so circumvent the eBay-chain for the purchase, was okay by me.
But in general, there were quite a few red flags, and concluded that there was a huge risk' that the seller was a scammer, and likely not in the USA' as I could not validate his very Russian or east European name and the housing details in the USA, that he provided, same with the email.
But after I had talked with Paypal Denmark and mentioning all the red flags' I concluded that I had no risk whatsoever to go through with the transfer to his PayPal address, and the funds would be locked for a certain time' and in the worst case, it would be wasted-time at my end.
The item did not arrive in the time it should (not even close) and the tracking details he provided were also very weird and could not be used at all (no info whatsoever) but a few days before the deadline for me to start a PP-dispute for the money. - The parcel with a Seek Pro iOS to my huge surprise actually arrived and with a US shipping-out address..so I just concluded that the lack of tracking simply was spared, hence cost.
I later took a closer look at some of the other things he sold with no minimum price, and I notice many expensive Bushnell rangefinders. (also completely new)..
I don't wanna label people or sellers with wrongful names, but I do recall I later wondered about that eBay sale account (now gone), - as we here in Denmark have quite big issues with credit card scams, where people from abroad, hack credit card info on people here in Denmark and they then use that credit card to purchase expensive gear, that they then sell online from online auction sites.. (but I am only speculating here, no proof what so ever, from my end, the item was perfect.)
Somehow, @DaneLaw's pictures are completely noise free, with very sharp details... I suspect he owns a very high-end camera and is just too modest to tell us what it is! 
For example this picture posted by him has a resolution of 800x600, which is quite a bit better than what the Seek Compact Pro is capable of (320 x 240)... Come on @DaneLaw, tell us what you are doing!
No sadly
Im still only rolling a Seek Compact Pro FF (the only thermal camera I got) but I do finally have the funds saved so I can take the plunge for one of the better 384x288 25Hz dongles for Android, like the Hti-301 or the T3S or if there is other better alternatives??
but I am still missing an overview of which dongle is the prefered to get here in 2Q 2021 as they are both pretty much the same price, the two mentioned above.
My budget is around 500USD for a 384x288 or around 1000 USD for one with VGA resolution (480p) though thermal camera-dongles with VGA resolution at around a grand, is still not in the foreseeable future, though I am one envy puppy' when looking at some of the shots on Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/groups/therm-app-users/ (admin of that group is one of the users here on EEVblog)
The 800x600 is just an image upscale.
The setting' I use most on the Seek App, is the one with these two-circles on top of each other, as there I can lock the span with the circle button upright, and usually point at something a tad warner and hit that round button, and you even have the temperature-value running underneath for the hottest part present...
It's the "preset" I use at fx 0:55 minute into this video where I'm looking at two tiny 1.25mm (131) resistors. (I reckon it's these)
https://www.digikey.ee/product-detail/en/susumu/RGH2012-2E-P-131-B/RGH20P130BTR-ND/1143035My prefered palette in the Seek app is the Tyrian and then get a span-lock a tad higher' than the subject, and also what I used with the SH72 soldering iron above and this UR65 quad below..
at 0:55
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