As will be shown in the extracts of various statements below and in the following posts, the photo said to have been printed on the night of the 3rd May 2007 is this one which looks like a real photograph to me, being fixed to the document with photo corners.
One camera and a printer: technical details.
The Kodak Easyshare G600 has a dock which can only be used by Kodak cameras, the printer supports the PictBridge standard.
(The serial number is in some statements given as G60 - there is no such printer and Ms. Tierney identified the printer as being identical to the one she used in her statement of the 17th April 2008).
The Kodak G600 is only compatible for downloading direct from a camera if that camera is a Kodak Easyshare model or Pictbridge enabled.
The printer does not have a memory card reader. Neither does it have its own LCD screen so if printing from a USB stick you cannot preview or select a particular photo. The Kodak was designed to dock a Kodak Easyshare camera only.
Printing photographs without a camera is only possible by using a USB key (in 2007 these were not quite a commonly used as they are now).
In this case the printer cannot display what it is going to print, it would likely print whatever photos were on the USB stick. (Amy Tierney talks about only one photo, so does R.O’Brien).
Thirty to forty photographs printed on a small portable printer would probably have taken a long time to print and probably exhausted the colour cartridges.
However: http://resources.kodak.com/support/pdf/en/manuals/urg00536/G600_GLB_en.pdf
However: http://resources.kodak.com/support/pdf/en/manuals/urg00536/G600_GLB_en.pdf
Page 34 states one can only print from a USB stick IF a Kodak camera is already docked.
The camera owned and used by Kate McCann is Canon A620 from 2005 and supports pictbridge.
The PictBridge connection uses the USB port on the printer, so you would have to have a USB (printer) to MicroUSB (Canon camera end) cable. The Canon most likely had one.
The poster photo was probably taken a camera with a pixel "aspect ratio ' of around 1888 x 2350. As the image is of a considerably younger Maddie than at nearly four years old, the question arises why photographs from years back are kept on the camera.
The aspect ratio of the photograph indicates that the Canon camera could not have been used to transfer this photograph to the printer. (but see comments on aspect ration as both photos (there were in fact two different ones) are cropped.
Therefore this photograph was most likely elsewhere. Not on a laptop as none of the group had taken laptops with them. Neither is there any mention in ROB’s statements that a laptop featured in the transfer of the photo - as we will see in part 3, he only talks about a memory stick not a card, which te Kodak printer does not have any ports for. We do know how it was allegedly printed: using a USB stick.
This might mean that there should have been only one photo on this key as the only way which this printer can print pictures from anoth
There were however two photographs, different poses, according to the GNR.
The AFP agency notes that the poster photo does not have a date.
er make of camera is from a computer link via the USB port or from a memory stick inserted into that USB port. There were however two photographs, different poses, according to the GNR.
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The camera:
Canon A620 Aspect ratio 3072 x 2304
Chapter 11, from The truth of the lie:
[..]At this stage of the investigation, we have already requested the holiday photos
from all of them. On the dining table, we notice a digital camera and we decide that
we must acquire its contents. unquote
It seems however that the camera did was not requisitioned, the two timelines were taken that night and a document with the 'terms of seizure' exists. However, the Ambassador was on site and was instrumental in preventing the PJ to take clothes belonging to Maddie. It may be that the same happened with the camera and therefore the holiday photos delivered on the 9th make a lot of sense. A compilation of the Tapas photos edited by none other than Gerry McCann and Michael Wright.
9-5-2007 Gerald McCann and Michael Wright deliver CDs of photos to the PJ. (see PJ receipts below)
10-5-2007 Around 15.00 both McCanns are at CID Portimaio (see extract book below) for Gerry’s second interview.
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The Canon A620 (which allegedly also took the famous ‘last photograph) does not appear to have been in the hands of the PJ at all. Alex Woolfall and KM spent time going through the photographs. He also said it had ‘a lot’ of photographs on it. This is attested by Woolfall (Timeonline 6-10-07)so sometime between 5/5/07 and 8/5/07 as the tennis photo was allegedly on that camera. The tennis photo was sent around the world by 9/5/07.
From the book “madeleine” by Kate McCann. p. 123
"Later that day, Thursday 10 May, the Portuguese police held a press conference, [...] Meanwhile, Gerry and I, along with a couple of our friends, were called back to the police station in Portimão. [...] I made use of the long wait I anticipated by sitting down with a notebook, pen and my camera, containing dated photographs of the holiday, and trying to write a detailed account of everything that had happened the week before.”
4/5th May PJ look at the crime scene photos and decide to obtain the Canon.
The PJ also ask for holiday photos from all the Tapas group.
5th - 8th Alex Woolfall and Kate download photographs from the camera onto a laptop.The tennis photo must allegedly have been sent to the UK on this occasion. However, the PJ find no tennis photo that matches - but a tennis photo of a child with a racket is apparently recorded - presumably on the DVDs delivered on the 9th.
9th Gerry and M. Wright deliver two DVDs of holiday photos. (there can be seen only in black/white in the files)
"Later that day, Thursday 10 May, the Portuguese police held a press conference, [...] Meanwhile, Gerry and I, along with a couple of our friends, were called back to the police station in Portimão. [...] I made use of the long wait I anticipated by sitting down with a notebook, pen and my camera, containing dated photographs of the holiday, and trying to write a detailed account of everything that had happened the week before.”
4/5th May PJ look at the crime scene photos and decide to obtain the Canon.
The PJ also ask for holiday photos from all the Tapas group.
5th - 8th Alex Woolfall and Kate download photographs from the camera onto a laptop.The tennis photo must allegedly have been sent to the UK on this occasion. However, the PJ find no tennis photo that matches - but a tennis photo of a child with a racket is apparently recorded - presumably on the DVDs delivered on the 9th.
9th Gerry and M. Wright deliver two DVDs of holiday photos. (there can be seen only in black/white in the files)
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Outros Apensos Vol VIII Page 549
- NUIPC 201/07.0 GALGS
Visualisation and Analysis of Photographs
On this date, I state that the photographs contained on a CD delivered to this police force
Gerald McCann have been visualised and analysed,
some of them are from the holiday period that the McCann family spent at the
Ocean Club in PdL, beginning on the 28th April 2007.Visualisation and Analysis of Photographs
On this date, I state that the photographs contained on a CD delivered to this police force
The visualisation and analysis of these images that was carried out reveals that there are several photographs of interest to the investigation, in which it is possible to visualise Madeleine McCann.
Portimão, 09 May 2007
Inspector Ricardo Paiva
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Outros Apensos Vol VIII Page 550
- NUIPC 201/07.0 GALGS
Visualisation and Analysis of Photographs
On this date, I state that the photographs contained on a CD delivered to this police force by Michael Wright, a relation of the McCann couple, relating to the holiday period that the McCann family spent at the Ocean Club in PdL, beginning on the 28th April 2007.
The visualisation and analysis of these images that was carried out reveals that there are several photographs of interest to the investigation, in which it is possible to visualise Madeleine McCann, as well as different adults and children that made up the group of friends who were on holiday together with the McCann couple in PdL, which is why these photographs, joined to the report, were printed.
Portimão, 09 May 2007
Inspector Ricardo Paiva
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Visualisation and Analysis of Photographs
On this date, I state that the photographs contained on a CD delivered to this police force by Michael Wright, a relation of the McCann couple, relating to the holiday period that the McCann family spent at the Ocean Club in PdL, beginning on the 28th April 2007.
The visualisation and analysis of these images that was carried out reveals that there are several photographs of interest to the investigation, in which it is possible to visualise Madeleine McCann, as well as different adults and children that made up the group of friends who were on holiday together with the McCann couple in PdL, which is why these photographs, joined to the report, were printed.
Portimão, 09 May 2007
Inspector Ricardo Paiva
This is an edited version of the post when first published. It appeared at the time that the McCanns owned a second camera - an Olympus - this is not the case and I have removed all references to the Olympus which are not relevant here as the camera belonged to other holiday makers. My apologies for the mistake.
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