Why are surveillance photos most of the time so grainy and poor?

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

It seems that with today’s technology they could get better pictures? I noticed this with many store surveillance footage as well as bank robbery footage.

Wahoogaz · ‎03-12-2010

Businesses are too cheap to update their equipment. They could get great quality video for very low prices these days. They also need to stop putting all their cameras up high. Someone wears a hat and you don't get a good look at them.

RoughDraft · ‎03-09-2010

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/headlines/why-is-security-camera-video-still-so-terrible-1.2...

Basically, how much people are willing to spend on equipment.

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SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

Seems like banks would want good cameras?

lolakimono · ‎03-29-2012

I was just talking about this. Our police department asks for "digital detectives" and posts surveillance photos.

One comment said it looked like the chupacabra.

CoffeeNut · ‎03-15-2010

Pretty bad when the RING Doorbell takes better video than some of the businesses.

catwhisperer · ‎07-11-2010

It's such a shame IMO that in the world we live in today, we have to have cameras everywhere.

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Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

They take lower resolution pictures to get more days on the storage space. High quality images take a LOT of storage space, and they want to keep a bigger backlog.

michellegirl · ‎03-12-2010

@Sooner wrote:
They take lower resolution pictures to get more days on the storage space. High quality images take a LOT of storage space, and they want to keep a bigger backlog.

I agree with your logic. If security cameras are recording 24/7 and they did so in HD that would be a TON of storage. It makes sense that they don't.