Why Your 4K Camera Fails at Night (And It’s Not the Resolution)
Posted by Karl Wilson on Feb 23, 2026
Why Your 4K Camera Fails at Night (And It’s Not the Resolution)
4K sounds powerful. Higher resolution. More detail. Better evidence.
But at night, many 4K cameras perform worse than lower-resolution models — not because they’re defective, but because physics takes over.
Deployment takeaway
Resolution does not equal low-light performance.
Smaller pixels colle
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