What is the importance of a camera?

Cameras record images. Images that we see with our eyes are fleeting - one moment they are there, the next moment they are gone. These same images can be recorded and stored using the now commonly available technology, cameras. Cameras can either be still-life cameras, which record still images, or video/movie cameras that record movement. The most common of the still cameras are the '35 mm cameras' which are so named because of the 35 mm size film that they use.