Yup A engineering friend of mine was working on hardware related to mil satellite imagery, and was sent to a course that covered all the kinds of post-processi

Yup A engineering friend of mine was working on hardware related to mil satellite imagery, and was sent to a course that covered all the kinds of post-processing techniques they had to improve resolution and what could help those techniques upstream. He said that at the end of the course, the instructor said the bottom line was that while they could do all kinds of 'magic' to improve & enhance the photos, the best input to all their techniques that would yield the best end result, was to take a better photo in the first place. So, yes, there really is no substitute to a good original image.