The difference between spending billions on one camera compared to spending a couple thousand on a full system.
I think you misspelled 10s of dollars on a system…
Those galaxies are maybe slightly bigger than that dude.
I think it’s also relevant pointing out that the telescope maybe, possibly, perhaps, cost more than the security camera.
Just by a little bit.
Picture quality is so awful that the guy has to be a few centimeters tall.
Dude’s a garden gnome.
From 10 feet away I was thinking more like…
left picture is underestimating the distance by about 2.5 factor
Why won’t the robber stand still for 78 hours so we can take a deep field time exposure of him?
Clearly the optics involved are different…
The problem with security cameras is that insurance demands them, but does not state a minimum quality. Which is stupid, but obviously they see more profit in security being a theater instead of real stuff to prevent incidents.
So if your contract just demands video cameras at every corner and X days of retaining the video, how much would you invest into high-quality, high-definition cameras and quality-retaining video storage?
You can actually buy “outdoor security cameras” for $10 a piece - or you can buy professional stuff for $500 or more. You can store hours after hours of video footage of 16 cameras on one old, worn-out video tape, or invest tens of thousands in disk arrays to store high-resolution video streams. Guess what businesses do when the only requirement is to “have a video surveillance system”.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I can’t even tell how many limbs the creatures in the left image have, even after zooming in.