Why do movie cams (the ones recorded in theatres and put on torrent sites) seem like they’re always small and blurry low-quality video files, even though camcorders have improved massively in the last decade?

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Why do movie cams (the ones recorded in theatres and put on torrent sites) seem like they’re always small and blurry low-quality video files, even though camcorders have improved massively in the last decade?

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A lot of them are shot on phones or small consumer grade camcorders, which have small sensors and thus terrible low light performance. Small sensors can’t capture as much light as larger ones. Better performing cameras with larger sensors and better lenses would be hard to hide in a theatre.

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