Phones nowadays have cameras that are so perfect in quality, yet security cameras are mostly always so grainy so why? You can get a phone with a perfect extremely high quality camera for a few hundred these days, sometimes even less
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Cost. Not only does higher quality mean higher quality camera parts, but also having to store that info means better processing and needing more storage space over long periods of time. Remember that video already takes up a looooot of space and security cameras are meant to be on 24/7. Also, the higher the quality also means more potential energy usage so that can also cost more on your electric bill in the long run too. ALSO, more processing means needing a decent cooling solution so more energy being used to run fans to cool the system.
The company that sells the security camera also probably doesn’t have a huge research and development budget so they’re not going to try to sell higher quality equipment either. So this basically all boils down to “eh, it’s good enough.”
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