– Why do 4K videos look like they have more details than in the real life?

Question

Or they truly do.

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Because they can. That brick wall that’s 100 feet away? In real life, your vision isn’t good enough to make out the texture in the face of an individual brick. In 4K, the camera captures that detail and presents it to you 5 feet from your face (assuming the camera was set up that way – sometimes they add deliberate blurring or blurring that naturally results from camera movement due to low fps, e.g. 24 fps).