Yeah, I'm sure we all get a kick out of these scenes :-)
Although as a hardcore Blade Runner fan (which clearly was the source of inspiration for a lot of those scenes), I would like to say that there's supposedly a technological backdrop to that scene; the photos were supposedly taken with future (circa 2019) cameras that could take ultra high resolution images and store all that information on a 4x6 "print". The "3-D" aspect of the photo is obviously bunk––you can't do that with any kind of future tech if all you have is one cam and one lens––but the zooming and enhancing thing is not out of the question (of course, you'd think all you need to do is zoom, without enhancing).
Think of something like this:
Gigapixel-Dresden.de - Large Size Panoramas
but take with one shot :-)