Which was the first camera to use a lens?

Which was the first camera to use a lens?

In the 16th century, Geronimo Cardano, the Italian physician, mathematician and astrologer used a convex lens in a camera and, in a sense, started the photographic industry.
Photography, as well know it, actually began in 1816 when Joseph Niepce, a French researcher, captured an image on paper that had been sensitized with the advent of digital cameras, photographic film loses its importance. Film-less cameras are the ‘in thing’ now.