The problem is that there is (currently) and I'm not sure possible at all, no way to observe anything without the presence of photons / the 'thing occurring' affecting something else and therefore it wouldn't seem possible to observe something without changing the system itself. It's not so much that the camera 'affects the object' its that in order to see the object through the camera there must be photons (or light if you will) as a camera, our eyes, cannot work without photons. Now you might ask, well maybe we can improve this by observing the effect rather than observing the system and in this case we get the superposition of all possible states which corresponds to (c).

But yeah it's all pretty interesting (and yeah those Native-Americans are definitely right, your photons get captured by that camera [but probably less than by being seen by other people]), hopefully some new people come along and make some pretty big discoveries, the biggest one currently is being either able to combine quantum mechanics and special relativity, or explaining gravity in quantum mechanics.