GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman rode the wave of the world's fastest growing camera company to become a billionaire.

FORBES: Nicholas Woodman

We also shut down a mistaken plan to become a vertically integrated manufacturer of our DigitalOptics camera technology.

FORBES: Don't Turn My Company Into A Patent Troll!

Still image camera film processing has become a specialty processing option and film itself is getting harder to find, and more expensive.

FORBES: End of the Reel

The BCL-15 f8.0 Body Cap Lens serves as a body cap when carrying the camera around without its interchangeable lens, and transforms to become a pan-focus snapshot lens to capture images.

ENGADGET: Olympus E-PL5 and E-PM2: Micro Four Thirds cameras with OM-D-like focusing, performance boosts (hands-on)

The mirror-less camera, on the other hand is a macroevolution and will become a strapping competitor for the popular standards: the digital SLR (single-lens reflex) camera and the user-friendly point-and-shoot camera.

FORBES: New Developments for the Camera Category

Yet a decade later, camera-phones have become an accepted and relatively uncontroversial part of modern culture.

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He had been left paralysed after a car crash, and had set up a bedside camera at his home in Wiltshire because he had become concerned about the care he was receiving.

BBC: Paramedic suspended after life support machine blunder

In a party political broadcast filmed at his home the Liberal Democrat leader speaks directly to camera and with real intensity about a decision which he believes has become a weight around his and his party's ankles - the decision to break his word by first signing, then breaking a pledge to vote against increases in student tuition fees.

BBC: Nick Clegg: Sorry no longer the hardest word

CAMERA-PHONES, a gimmick and a luxury a few years ago, have become ubiquitous.

ECONOMIST: Camera-phones