A couple have been left 'gobsmacked' by the power of the world wide web. When Jim and Kathleen Bentham lost their digital camera, with all the prized photographs of their granddaughter's university graduation, they though it was gone forever. But the person who found it immediately posted one of the photographs from it on a social media site, asking if anyone recognised it. And the next day Jim and Kathleen, who live in Dartmouth, had their camera back. 'We were absolutely delighted to get the camera returned and absolutely gobsmacked that it could happen so quickly in that way,' said Jim. The couple had gone to Exeter to see their 22-year-old granddaughter Mallory Long graduate with a law degree, along with Mallory's mum Katrin and Mallory's brother Thomas. Jim said the family group had lunched in Exeter and then went back to Brixham where Mallory lives. He said the camera somehow disappeared when they were transferring their belongings from car to car and they reckoned it was lost forever. Jim said that the next day Mallory telephoned her granddad to ask if he had lost his camera and told him she now knew where it was. 'Some kind person had found the camera on the pavement and had posted photographs from it on a local social media site,' said Jim. 'One of Mallory's friends had visited the site and recognised her and telephoned to let her know. 'Later that day, Katrin, who was unaware of Mallory's call, also phoned to announce that the camera had been found. 'One of her former work colleagues had also visited the site and recognised Tom. 'She contacted Katrin and said she also knew the person who had posted the photograph on the website.'