My father was a lawyer; his best friend ran a photo studio. One day my father brought a negative and asked Frank to enlarge it. He made an 8 x 10 print. It showed two people in a boat in the middle of a lake. The image was too small to make out who was on the boat.

Dad asked Frank to make it larger, so he doubled the size. The boat's occupants still couldn't be identified.

My dad asked Frank to blow the photo up to the size of a poster and mount it on a board. Frank did, but when he saw the finished product he said the picture now was too grainy to identify anyone. "That's okay," my dad said.

Dad used it to leverage a great settlement for his client, the wife in a divorce. Even though Dad and Frank couldn't identify the people in the boat, the husband could.