Guy 1: Can you enhance that grainy camera picture so I can make out that license plate so I can read it? Even though the license plate is just two pixels in the original recording?
Guy 2: Sure. I’ll just use this wondertech to… ah, there you go. One click did it.
A cool subversion of this one might be to zoom out, rather than in. That viewing the image close up reveals a useless jumble of pixels but zooming out reveals an image. Or they’ve been focusing on the center of frame so narrowly that a detail at the edge of shot goes missed for awhile. So many toys to play with!
I think I’ve seen one show where it was phrased “is this all the resolution we have?”
I’ve had a good moment with a german crime show where the tech guy just said “Nope, not possible.”
A cool subversion of this one might be to zoom out, rather than in. That viewing the image close up reveals a useless jumble of pixels but zooming out reveals an image. Or they’ve been focusing on the center of frame so narrowly that a detail at the edge of shot goes missed for awhile. So many toys to play with!
You can just say “zoom in, enhance” and everyone knows what you mean. It became such a meme that I think shows lean into it.