Nice blogpost not withstanding I dunno why anyone would bother with these, all consumer CCTV cameras are garbage as far as the hardware goes and that's what pro

Nice blogpost not withstanding I dunno why anyone would bother with these, all consumer CCTV cameras are garbage as far as the hardware goes and that's what produces the image you presumably want to be using. A nice 1/1.8" or 1/1.2" Sony sensor costs some money, and a high resolution, achromatic (vis to ~1 µm) and fast lens does not stand up to the fractional-penny-shaving applied to consumer products. So you get shitty 1/3" or smaller sensors made by some backwater company with the cheapest lens someone could come up with.