Odd

Funny you should post this today. Last night Wendy and I were watching our weekly showing of Medium, the new show on Monday nights. It is a good show with lots of psychic and telepathetic mumbo jumbo that I don't believe in but find myself oddly enjoying it on a fictional level. That is until last night, when a murder suspect was cleared because he snapped a picture with his camera phone, and the picture that he took, at night, from about 30 feet away, was clear as day and perfectly sharp when blown up into an 8x10, so sharp that it showed a shadowy figure in the background. So the lawyer took the liberty to "Enlarge the photo and clean it up a bit," to reveal who the real killer was. I couldn't believe how lame this was. Everyone knows a camera phone sucks, but what they accomplished with their phone was something that an excellent digital camera could not even accomplish. In fact, you would need some professional photography equipment and lighting to accomplish the way this photo looked, and that doesn't even get past the fact that you can't make something from nothing. In other words, the whole "I've enlarged and cleaned up the photo so that you can clearly see the killers face behind glass from 45 feet away" is total crap. I hate TV.

That one drives me crazy, but it is apparently regular TV science, you see it all of the time. I'm not sure how this "computer program that can interpolate photos" got on to all of the shows, but even worse the interpolation process "discovers" things about the photo that ends up being admissible in court, or good enough for a warrant (if the show even cares about that sort of thing). Apparently the concept of retouched photos being inadmissible for anything hasn't hit TV.

Might as well never take the photo in the first place and just use Bryce and fake the whole thing.

Your Honor, As you can see from the photo, my client could not have killed anyone on the night of 1/26/05 as he was in Las Vegas partying with the Olson Twins and Jimi Hendrix.