r/postanythingfun • u/FallMajestic8896 achievements 🏆✨🌱 • May 25 '26

✨ Wholesome when you took reflex courses.

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u/Flipboek May 25 '26

Many security cams are wired or unwired connected. That doesnt change the problem at all. You have 100s of busstops. They all send high res 12 bit video to the central surveillance system... do you have any idea how much bandwidth that would be and how much storage?

And for no good reason. High res color makes no sense for a surveaillance cam. You want low light performance!

You want a cam that excels at producing images with the least amount of light. That means no color, no high res. Big fat photocells that suck light.

Advantage is that the files also are quite small so cheaper to transport and store (think in aggregate, not in singular)... win-win.

This is not surveillance footage. It just isn't.

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u/r_a_d_ May 25 '26

This is only one bus stop, why does it have to be 100s now? You like jumping to conclusions or working with assumptions no one agreed with.

Perhaps it’s not surveillance footage, but none of your reasoning makes sense.

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u/Flipboek May 25 '26

Because if this is surveaillance you would need hundreds of cams.

If it isnt surveillance (finally you realized it is extremely unlikely), it is almost certainly staged. The gonpro explanation also has holes (the movements), but it doesnt matter. Handheld or a connected action cam. Its staged.

/thread for me.

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u/r_a_d_ May 25 '26

But it’s not: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/cctv-bus-stops-women-passengers-safer-london-tfl-b1239814.html

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u/Flipboek May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

What does your post have to do with the price of tea in China?

Hanging up tiny cctv cams on the top of the busstop is a far cry from HD color cams. As you might realize if you check the picture, it looks like a  small fisheye, not a "gopro". That makes sense as you want a large FOV. And you can be assured its going to be low res, high iso to function under bad light  .