The story Jennifer Willmott laid out in opening statements was that that the camera dropped, accidentally taking a picture of the ceiling, and this is what set Travis off into a murderous rage from which Jodi had to defend herself.
I say baloney. I'm not a "professional photographer" like Jodi claims to be, but I am a guy with a camera. This is what I know for sure just from reading the features list of the Sony Cybershot DSC-H9:
- It has autofocus. You have to hold the button in half way for the camera to lock focus, and push the button in order to capture the image
- It not only stamps the time, but lots of EXIF information including the focal length.
- The field of view in the image depends on the focal length of the camera and the distance from the subject you are trying to photograph.
So, you have to press the button pretty hard, more than flat to actually take a picture. You won't take a picture by simply dropping the camera. Moreover, I don't believe the story about dropping the camera one bit, and I am certain that if you got another DSC-H9 and manually set the focal length to match the EXIF data you wouldn't find any spot on the floor that could exactly reproduce that shot of the ceiling. I think she had the camera in her murderous little hand while she was attacking Travis, and I further believe the shot could be reproduced using the image's EXIF data to prove it. I'd love to see a DSC-H9 sitting high on a tripod with an expert witness saying "The camera was this high off the ground when that picture was taken." The timeline between the ceiling shot and the dead body shot alone casts serious doubt on her story, but I'd love to see hard, mathematical and scientific evidence proving it.