IPhone: photo jpg access

I'd just like someone to confirm for me that iPhone apps built using the SDK cannot have read access to the jpgs stored at /var/root/Media/DCIM/100APPLE (or in any other way access the original photo files created by the camera)
What happens if you attempt to read files at that path using NSFileManager?
If we can read files at that path then great.
If we don't have read access to those file then for photo upload we need to do the following:
- use the image picker to get the UIImage of the selected image,
- write to a new JPEG file using UIImageJPEGRepresentation
- upload that new image file.
Unfortunately, don't we lose the EXIF info that was in the original JPEG file?
Is there any way to retain that info?
Thanks!

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