Why do most if not all security cameras have such bad quality?

Question

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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Answer 1

Cameras that record locally have much better quality. Wifi cameras that record on the cloud have to compress the video otherwise they would use too much data.

I will say, I am very disappointed by this. My Nest camera can’t pick up a license plate from 15ft away.