Here’s what I don’t understand: You can fit an HD Camera with amazing video quality inside a tiny iPhone, and yet video footage that comes out from multi million dollar unmanned spy planes looks as if it was shot using 20-year-old video cameras.
Why do they do that? Is it to keep some espionage intrigue alive? Do they want to keep strategic ambiguity to allow creative discretion by the intelligence gatekeepers? I don’t get it.
The bottom line is: Even if the Shehabiyeh footage is indeed authentic, it can still be credibly disputed as doctored by the Lebanese.
Hello, my name is Mustapha and I've been blogging about Lebanese society, business and politics since February 2005.
It is about the level of zooming in, HD cams in small devices has a very short distance zoom, the spy cam of the sky plane needs to zoom in for several KMs, it is also about the reception signal, think about it as a TV tuner device, no matter how clear the image is, it looks cracky after recording it, also some spy cams use night vision and thermal detection…
But again, thinking about it, yes ! why don’t they come up with a better camera, if you are manufacturing a multi million dollar plane an extra 100,000 should not be a big deal
When any military that has sophisticated satellite/spy plane cameras offers footage to the public it is always shown with blurry images. This is in order not to release classified information as to the true capabilities of the equipment.