2goldfish
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For anyone interested in kind of a long answer to this...
You can recover things deleted, even several times over from a computer, yes. But not if it doesn't have a hard drive. The information is stored on the hard drive, no hard drive, nothing to recover.
A camera is similar, my camera doesn't even store any images on the actual camera. Only on the memory card. (Many you can do both.) So if I take my memory card and throw it in the dumpster... put in a new one... (I have 6 anyway and they are $5, this isn't like an expensive hard drive) then absolutely not, they couldn't recover anything. Though, I am quite skeptical they could anyway.
Also, you set the time and date on a camera. My brother never set his. Mine is set correctly to the minute. I'm anal about it, he's not.
My computer will tell you what time my picture was "created" which is the time the picture was taken.
It will tell you what time it was "modified" on an edited version, when I last made an actual change that was saved.
It will tell you when it was last "accessed" on the computer as well. The last time it was opened or viewed.
All of these come with dates and times. Again, dependent on the date and time you have set on your computer.
Terri, may not even have the original image... she may have edited it or uploaded it and deleted the original. She may not have set the time or date on her camera.
There are different programs for different cameras that allow you to access even more information about an individual image. But I would not assume that they would be able to find out for sure...it depends on camera and computer settings, the type of camera, type of computer, what she did with the image...many different factors.
Hopefully that made sense... :waitasec:
for the record images and data can also be retrieved from the memory card
eta and your camera calls each photo a certain thing - if you have 6 cards with all different numbers and you give them one out of order, they're gonna also wonder why that is.