The document discusses the history of different types of cameras. The daguerreotype, invented in 1837, used silver-plated copper plates as the raw material for capturing images. Polaroid cameras, developed in the 1940s, used self-developing film to instantly produce photographs. The first digital camera was created by Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975, weighing 8 pounds and able to store images on cassette tape with a resolution of 10,000 pixels. However, the first commercial digital camera was likely Fuji's 1988 DS-1P, which stored images on a 16MB internal memory card.