How was the camera invented?

An opaque box. This is a camera. Its invention took a long time.

As early as more than 400 years BC, China's book Mo Jing recorded in detail the straight-line progress of light, the reflection of light and the imaging phenomenon of flat mirror and concave-convex mirror. In Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo also described the principle of pinhole imaging box in detail in Meng Qian Bi Tan. /kloc-During the Renaissance in the 6th century, an "imaging camera box" for painting appeared in Europe. At this time, although the "photographic camera box" has some characteristics of a camera, it cannot be called a camera because it cannot record images. /kloc-In the early 8th century, people discovered photosensitive materials, and the French painter Daguerre announced the invention of silver plate photography, giving birth to the first real camera in human history. The first all-metal camera was invented by optician Vogeland at 184 1.