Gear starts to matter once viewers already click and stay. Audio quality is the one partial exception, because bad sound makes people leave, but it still will not rescue a video nobody clicked on.
Does better camera equipment increase YouTube views?
Almost never on its own. Views are decided by whether people click (thumbnail and title) and whether they keep watching (the first 30 seconds and the structure). A sharper image influences neither.
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