tv pet peeve #5697...
The latest incident of this I've noticed was in this week's CSI: New York, but it's not really specific to that ep, so I don't think it needs a spoiler cut. So once again they examine photos taken by bystanders on their cell phones for evidence, and this is related to that weird "endless zoom and image enhancement" phenomenon in procedurals (and wow, do I wish photos and video really worked like that, that you somehow could extract all potential information rather than all actual information recorded, because then if you had a reference picture of an object and needed to see the detail of some part of the mechanism rather than the whole thing you could just zoom instead of cursing about how few easy to find photos there are just showing a small part of a thing in great detail), but I don't mean that exactly, though it is also a pet peeve of mine. It's that on top of the endless detail it never seems to happen that a significant portion of their relevant photos just suck too much, like maybe blurry because the person wobbled too much, completely over or under exposed, etc. This somehow annoys me because random tv people are apparently much better at taking snapshots than actual people, even if they are just using cell phones, are in a crowd, and not all sober.
Also, I suspect that it isn't remotely realistic that they'd get a complete 3-D room view to zoom through even if all the people took photos a lot, because at an event with stuff happening on a stage and a crowd taking photos, almost everybody taking photos will take photos of the stuff happening on the stage, so there ought to be "blank spots" in their reconstruction in the other areas even if they extrapolate, unless the stage was in the middle of the room and people standing in 360° around it, like for a boxing ring, but that wasn't the case here, iirc, but the stage was set up at one end.
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