eli5 why is military aircraft and weapon targeting footage always so grainy and colourless when we have such high res cameras?
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In addition to what people have said, there’s a couple more things:
Military equipment is often old. The stuff Russia and Ukraine are fighting with are mostly decades old. Of course they don’t compare to a modern cell phone, when you have a thing manufactured a couple decades ago, with technology that took years to become a finished product.
Also, the camera sensor industry is just weird.
* If you go for DSLR sized sensors, you can have amazing quality. But they’re big, so not a great fit for something that needs to fit somewhere compact.
* If you go for a high end phone you can have surprisingly good quality, because the likes of Apple and Samsung spend lots of cash on that.
But there’s surprisingly little else. Like if you get a webcam, or a driving cam, or an Arduino camera module, they’re all kind of crap. Try to get a 4K webcam, it’s barely a thing. I think there’s like 3 of them out there, and you could just buy a cheap DSLR capable of 4K recording with a much better quality at that price.
For whatever reason, there seems to be very little available of good sensors for any purpose that’s not cell phones or large sensor, pro cameras.
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