It’s weird. Phones have like 50 megapixel sensors that can photograph the hairs on a fly’s leg, yet somehow all the CCTV from anything like this is always “we think it’s a person, probably”.
Usually security is reactionary, so there isn’t an incentive to upgrade to higher resolution cameras. But there is a strong profit incentive to just keep the same old barely serviceable cameras.
CCTV writes at low resolution to reduce storage cost and improve reliability. Even if you only hold a few days of footage on rotation, rotating bigger files with cause substantially more wear on the drives. Phone videos have smaller field of views, too.
It’s weird. Phones have like 50 megapixel sensors that can photograph the hairs on a fly’s leg, yet somehow all the CCTV from anything like this is always “we think it’s a person, probably”.
Usually security is reactionary, so there isn’t an incentive to upgrade to higher resolution cameras. But there is a strong profit incentive to just keep the same old barely serviceable cameras.
CCTV writes at low resolution to reduce storage cost and improve reliability. Even if you only hold a few days of footage on rotation, rotating bigger files with cause substantially more wear on the drives. Phone videos have smaller field of views, too.