The document provides a history of cameras from 1558 to 2000. It describes several important developments including the camera obscura in 1558, the calotype process introduced by William Fox Talbot in 1841, the daguerreotype camera developed by Louis Daguerre in 1839 which was one of the first publicly available photographic processes, Thomas Sutton's panoramic camera from 1861, George Eastman's Kodak camera in 1888 which used photographic film, and the Brownie cardboard box camera introduced in 1900 which helped popularize photography among the public. It also discusses the Leica 35mm camera from 1913, early miniature cameras from the 1920s, the Ekakta SLR from 1933, the Argus interchangeable lens