Not to get off topic, but to say Jesus was not a real person that walked the earth and had many followers who personally met him and even lived with him daily and who wrote first hand accounts of their time with him is just dumb. You can not believe their claims of his deity, whatever, but to say he never existed is hilariously ignorant when every historian ever says he did lol.....Now........ back to sasquatch.
As for cameras, most claims of a sighting are claimed to have happened in just a couple of seconds. It's hard to get a perfectly clear photo of something walking briefly through a field of view in and out of shadow in just three to five seconds so the lack of those photos wouldn't surprise me. I have one clear picture of my German shorthair pointer as a puppy...the rest are blurry blobs that if you look hard enough and squint, you make out the vague outline of a crazy hyper streak of fur. I took my time trying to get a good photo of that stupid dog and got ONE in the first 6 months lol.
As for trail cameras, I saw an interesting piece on great apes and their reaction to trail cameras placed by scientists in the congo. 1- apes in areas with frequent human interference would go totally nocturnal making sighting virtually impossible. 2- Researchers placed trail cameras on well used trails and about half the photos/videos were of chimps eying the camera from the very edge of the sensor range all the way to the camera indicating that they had Immediately spotted the unnatural object artificially inserted into their domain and were watching it. The remaining photos/videos were of a chimp's fingers touching the camera from the sides or behind without any photos of the chimp's approaching, indicating that again, they immediately spotted the thing that was out of place prior to triggering the camera and then they circled around the camera to investigate it from a "safer" angle and as a result, didn't trigger the camera until they put their hand in front. If they hadn't been so curious, they wouldn't have been captured on camera at all.
Studies have been done that show how incredibly intelligent the great apes are and show that they can process information INSANELY fast...waaaayyy faster than a human can process information. Humans can look at squiggly shapes on paper and attribute meaning to them and then visualize an entire story in their head based on those squiggly shapes. I would imagine that an ape that had as much or similar raw brain power as a human but used it differently would be on a whole other level compared to a human when in its natural environment. Theoretically, I bet I could beat a sasquatch at chess but you could probably never beat it at just existing in it's environment. I bet every bent leaf or broken spider web would be a whole book worth of information for something that does nothing but exist and focusses only on continuing to exist.
The patterson footage is also very compelling if you actually look at it. You can see every major muscle group moving under the fur. This is the same time that the best monkey suit that hollywood can buy with millions of dollars was seen in the original planet of the apes and that's not even close to what you see in the footage. You also can see female breasts on the thing....who would have thought to put breasts on their suit? There is also some scale measurements done on that video that make the thing seen be about 8 feet tall. Also the ratio of the limbs on the thing are way off from a human. A person in a multimillion dollar (for the time) suit, a suit with breasts, and at least as tall as a pro basketball player, would also be wearing forearm extensions to make the elbow and limb ratios look like they do in the video. Again, none of that is impossible to hoax but that was a very elaborate hoax at a time before bigfoot was cemented into pop culture and even before the term "bigfoot" was even invented. There are one or two other videos that are very compelling and hard to fake and then there are a bunch that can be explained away but, Anyway, None of this is proof but the "why don't we have clear video" thing doesn't seem reasonable when 1- there is pretty good video and 2- perfect video/trailcam would be extremely unlikely under most circumstances.
I'll be hones though, I HOPE they are real but never want to see one haha.