Can Photo Clues Lead to Camera's Owner?

January 25, 2008 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer Can Photo Clues Lead to Camera's Owner? (AP)

Brian Ascher and his fiance Erika Gunderson pose for a photograph in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, in Standings, an East Village bar which was the last piece in a puzzle to track down the owner of a Canon digital camera Gunderson found in a New York taxi on New Year's Eve. The couple tracked down the camera's owner in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

(AP) -- At dusk on New Year's Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery.

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