Enhance!

[karohemd]

One of my computer related bugbears in TV/cinema, along with random typing to do stuff:

Yes, there are reflections and if the resolution is good enough, you can get closer (see icon, which is a very tight crop rather than an enhancement/zoom) but never ever from CCTV footage.

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, annoys the hell out of me too. See especially the TV show Las Vegas, where they do this to ridiculous extremes - I worked out that in one episode there was something like 100,000 x magnification in one enhanced image.

[gbsteve.livejournal.com]

Enhance put on your steong zoom 'n enhance photos

Enhance the video
They're playin' on TV

Let's zoom
To the reflection in your face
Let's zoom
Grab those pixels in empty space

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[fearmeforiampink]

In future stuff it's a little more reasonable, as they could have much higher resolution recordings, but for the most of it I definitely agree.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, but all the examples in the clip are modern day. Even in the future, you won't be able to look through walls/around corners a la Blade Runner, unless it's a composite of several cameras around the area or some form of IR/X-ray imaging.
The icon in the post was cropped from a 10MP image at full resolution.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/265654.html

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, brilliant! :D

[mansunite.livejournal.com]

Fresh from the B3ta newsletter? ;-)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

No, actually, it was someone on twitter.