The document outlines the key developments in camera technology from 1727 to 2012. It describes some of the earliest photographic processes invented by Johann Schulz and Joseph Niepce which paved the way for capturing images but required long exposure times. Later developments by Louis Daguerre and William Henry Talbot made photographs easier to produce and allowed for copies. Advances like gelatin dry plates, roll film cameras, and Polaroid technology further simplified the photographic process. Digital cameras were then invented in the 1970s and 1980s and began to replace film cameras. Camera phones were introduced in the 1990s and wireless sharing of pictures became possible in the early 2000s.