Digital cameras are portable and often store hundreds of photos at a time. They let people capture the seemingly endless details of life, from the important to the mundane, in the 21st century. Photography has come a long way since the 1840s and 1850s, the first two decades of commercially successful picture-taking. Customers paid from a quarter to a few dollars for a daguerreotype portrait, depending on the experience and location of the studio. Posing for portraits was reserved for major life events—family history milestones.