Why can dedicated night vision sensors capture color in near-total darkness but phones can‘t?
Right: my phone, actively recording video (you can see the timer running), in a room this dark.
Left: the live output from a low-light color sensor we've been testing, same room, same moment.
The phone is genuinely trying to record — it's just too dark for it to capture anything usable. The sensor on the left is picking up full color detail in what's basically pitch black to the naked eye.
Not a staged comparison, this is just what real-time footage looks like from both devices side by side.
u/Joeyzhan961 — 9 days ago