This list of photographic equipment makers lists companies that manufacture (or license manufacture from other companies) equipment for photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

.

Camera and lens manufacturers

Note that producers whose only presence in the photo industry at any time has been the manufacture of digital cameras (Logitech

Logitech

Logitech International S.A. is a global provider of personal peripherals for computers and other digital platforms headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland. The company develops and markets products like peripheral devices for PCs, including keyboards, mice, microphones, game controllers...

, for example, which has made Webcam

Webcam

A webcam is a video camera that feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, ethernet, or Wi-Fi.Their most popular use is the establishment of video links, permitting computers to act as videophones or videoconference stations. This common use as a video camera...

s) are listed separately on the List of digital camera brands.

There is not a very clear distinguishing line between camera producers and lens producers; many companies do both, or have done both at one time or another. Some camera manufacturers sell lenses made by others as their own, in an OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, manufactures products or components that are purchased by a company and retailed under that purchasing company's brand name. OEM refers to the company that originally manufactured the product. When referring to automotive parts, OEM designates a...

 arrangement. Some camera makers design lenses but outsource

Outsourcing

Outsourcing is the process of contracting a business function to someone else.-Overview:The term outsourcing is used inconsistently but usually involves the contracting out of a business function - commonly one previously performed in-house - to an external provider...

 manufacture. Some lens makers have cameras made to sell under their own brand name. A few companies are only in the lens business. Some camera companies make no lenses, but usually at least sell a lens from some lens maker with their cameras as part of a package.

Note that many optical instruments such as microscope

Microscope

A microscope is an instrument used to see objects that are too small for the naked eye. The science of investigating small objects using such an instrument is called microscopy...

s, telescope

Telescope

A telescope is an instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation . The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 1600s , using glass lenses...

s, spotting scope

Spotting scope

A spotting scope is a small portable telescope with added optics to present an erect image, optimized for the observation of terrestrial objects...

s and so forth can be used as photographic lenses; manufacturers of these types of equipment are not included here (unless they also make more conventional photo gear).

Current manufacturers of cameras and/or photographic lenses and filters

• Alpa
  Alpa
  Alpa was formerly a Swiss camera design company and manufacturer of 35 mm SLR cameras. The current owners bought the company name after bankruptcy of the original company and the company exists today as a designer and manufacturer of high-end medium-format cameras.-History:Alpa was an offshoot of...
  
    (name used under license; original company extinct)
• Andor Technology
  Andor Technology
  Andor Technology PLC is a developer and manufacturer of high performance light measuring solutions .Andor Technology was set up by its founders, Dr. Hugh Cormican, Dr. Donal Denvir and Mr. Mike Pringle in the mid 1980s...
  
  
• Angenieux
  Angenieux retrofocus
  The Angénieux retrofocus photographic lens is a wide-angle lens design that uses an inverted telephoto configuration. The popularity of this lens design made the name retrofocus synonymous with this type of lens...
  
  
• Argus
  Argus (camera company)
  Argus is an American maker of cameras and photographic products, founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Argus originated as a subsidiary of the International Radio Corporation , founded by Charles Verschoor. Its best-known product was the C3 rangefinder camera, which enjoyed a 27-year production...
  
  
• Arnold & Richter (see Arri
  Arri
  -History:Arri was founded in Munich, Germany as Arnold & Richter Cine Technik in 1917, named after founders August Arnold and Robert Richter. They produce professional motion picture equipment, digital and film cameras and cinematic lighting equipment...
  
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• Arri
  Arri
  -History:Arri was founded in Munich, Germany as Arnold & Richter Cine Technik in 1917, named after founders August Arnold and Robert Richter. They produce professional motion picture equipment, digital and film cameras and cinematic lighting equipment...
  
  
• Asahi (see Pentax
  Pentax
  Pentax is a brand name used by Hoya Corporation for its medical-related products & services and Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company for cameras, sport optics , etc. Hoya purchased and merged with the Japanese optics company on March 31, 2008. Hoya's Pentax imaging business was sold to Ricoh Company, Ltd...
  
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• BELOMO
  BELOMO
  BelOMO or Belorusskoe Optiko-Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie was founded in Minsk in 1971 in Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union, now Belarus. The main plant of this enterprise is the Minskiy Mechanichesckiy Zavod imeni S.I. Vavilova BelOMO or Belorusskoe Optiko-Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie (Belarus...
  
  
• Bolex
  Bolex
  Bolex is a Swiss company that manufactures motion picture cameras and lenses, the most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats. The Bolex company was initially founded by Jacques Bogopolsky in 1927. Bolex is derived from his name. He had previously designed cameras for...
  
  
• Bron Elektronik
  Bron Elektronik
  Bron Elektronik is a manufacturer of flash equipment for photography. It is located in Allschwil in Switzerland. Bron manufactures the Broncolor and Visatec lines of strobes. The Broncolor line includes studio systems with separate power packs and heads, as well as monolights; Visatec concentrates...
  
  
• B+W Filterfabrik (owned by Schneider Kreuznach
  Schneider Kreuznach
  Schneider Kreuznach is the abbreviated name of the company Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, which is sometimes also simply referred to as Schneider. They are a manufacturer of industrial and photographic optics....
  
  ).
• Cambo Cambo camera
  Cambo camera
  Cambo BV is a manufacturer of high quality, mainly large format cameras based in Kampen, the Netherlands, and has the distinction of being the first studio camera manufacturer to produce an all-metal large format camera.-History:...
  
  
• Canham
  Canham
  Canham is a surname, and may refer to:* Arthur Canham* Charles D. W. Canham* Don Canham* Leigh Canham* Marc Canham* Marsha Canham* Scott Canham* Sean Canham...
  
  
• Canon
• Casio
  Casio
  is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its electronic products, such as calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches...
  
  
• Century Precision Optics
  Century Precision Optics
  Century Precision Optics is an American lens manufacturing firm. They were acquired in 2000 by Schneider Kreuznach, also known as Schneider Optics in the U.S., which was founded in 1972. Century Optics makes a variety of digital, broadcast, projection, and industrial lenses. They have offices in...
  
   (owned by Schneider Kreuznach
  Schneider Kreuznach
  Schneider Kreuznach is the abbreviated name of the company Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, which is sometimes also simply referred to as Schneider. They are a manufacturer of industrial and photographic optics....
  
  )
• Cokin
  Cokin
  Cokin is a French manufacturer of optical filters for photography. The system allows filters such as rectangular graduated neutral density filters which are versatile in use....
  
  
• Cooke
  Cooke Optics
  Cooke Optics Ltd. is a camera lens manufacturing company based in Leicester, known earlier as Taylor, Taylor and Hobson and then Taylor Hobson. T. S. Taylor, an optician, his brother W. Taylor, an engineer, and a Mr Hobson, a businessman, formed the company in 1886.The name Cooke originally came...
  
  
• Cosina
  Cosina
  is a designer and manufacturer of cameras and lenses, and a glassmaker, based in Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.-History:Cosina is the successor to Nikō , a company set up as a manufacturer oflenses in 1959...
  
  
• Folmer and Schwing
  Graflex
  Graflex was a manufacturer, a brand name and several models of cameras. William F. Folmer, an inventor, built the first Graflex camera in 1898, when his company was called The Folmer and Schwing Manufacturing Company, founded originally in New York as a gas lamp company...
  
  
• Franke & Heidecke (see Rollei
  Rollei
  Rollei is a German manufacturer of optical goods founded in 1920 by Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and maker of the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord series of cameras...
  
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• Fujifilm
  Fujifilm
  is a multinational photography and imaging company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.Fujifilm's principal activities are the development, production, sale and servicing of color photographic film, digital cameras, photofinishing equipment, color paper, photofinishing chemicals, medical imaging...
  
  
• Fujinon
  Fujinon
  Fujinon is a division of Fujifilm that specialises in the production of optical lenses for photographic, medical, video, and television use.- Fujinon SWD :...
  
   (see Fujifilm
  Fujifilm
  is a multinational photography and imaging company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.Fujifilm's principal activities are the development, production, sale and servicing of color photographic film, digital cameras, photofinishing equipment, color paper, photofinishing chemicals, medical imaging...
  
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• Goko
• Gowland
• Hartblei
  Hartblei
  Hartblei is a Ukrainian manufacturer of optical equipment for photography based in Kiev. They are primarily known for producing tilt-shift lenses . Taking lens designs produced by Kiev-Arsenal they modify these into tilt and shift designs of their own...
  
  
• Hasselblad
  Hasselblad
  Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras and photographic equipment based in Gothenburg, Sweden.The company is best known for the medium-format cameras it has produced since World War II....
  
  
• Holga
  Holga
  The Holga is a medium format 120 film toy camera, made in China, known for its low-fidelity aesthetic.The Holga's low-cost construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions...
  
  
• Hoya
  Hoya Corporation
  is a Japanese company leading in manufacturing of optical products including photomasks, photomask blanks and glass magnetic-memory disks, contact lenses and eyeglass lenses using the wavefront technology, Photonics...
  
   (part of THK Corporation)
• Kern
• Kiev-Arsenal
• Kino Precision
  Kiron Lenses
  Kiron Lenses were photographic lenses distributed by the Kiron Corporation, formerly based in Carson, California, USA.-History:The company was set up as a U.S. subsidiary of Kino Precision Industries Limited, Tokyo, Japan and registered as a trademark on Jan 25 1980, in order to market...
  
   (makers of Kiron and Vivitar Series 1 lenses)
• Kenko (distributed in USA by THK Corporation)
• Kodak
  Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
  
  
• Krasnogorsky Mekanicheski Zavod
  Krasnogorskiy Zavod
  Krasnogorskiy zavod im. S. A. Zvereva is a Russian factory in Krasnogorsk near Moscow which specializes in optical technology.During the Soviet period it was called Krasnogorsk Mechanical Works...
  
   (also known as KMZ, makers of Zorki
  Zorki
  Zorki is the name of a series of 35mm rangefinder cameras manufactured in the Soviet Union between 1948 and 1978.The Zorki was a product of the Krasnogorsk Mechanical Factory , which also produced the Zenit single lens reflex camera...
  
   and Zenit
  Zenit (camera)
  Zenit is a Russian camera brand manufactured by KMZ in the town of Krasnogorsk near Moscow since 1952 and by BelOMO in Belarus since the 1970s. The Zenit trademark is associated with 35mm SLR cameras...
  
   cameras)
• Leica
• Lensbaby
  Lensbaby
  Lensbaby is a line of camera lenses for SLR cameras that combine a simple lens with a bellows or ball and socket mechanism for use in special-effect photography. A lensbaby can give effects normally associated with view cameras...
  
  
• Linhof
  Linhof
  Linhof is a German company, founded in Munich in 1887 by Valentin Linhof. The company is well known for making premium rollfilm and large format film cameras...
  
  
• Littmann
  Littmann
  - Littmann :* Corny Littmann* David Littmann , German-American cardiologist* Enno Littmann , German orientalist* Max Littmann , German architect* Heilmann & Littmann- Littman :* David Littman , multiple people...
  
  
• LOMO
  LOMO
  LOMO or Leningrad Optical Mechanical Amalgamation is a manufacturer of advanced optical instruments, medical equipment, consumer still and movie cameras, projectors, lenses, film editors, splicers, professional sound recorders for motion-picture production based in St. Petersburg, Russia...
  
   (Leningradskoye Optiko Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie)
• Mamiya
  Mamiya
  is a Japanese company that today manufactures high-end cameras and other related photographic and optical equipment. With headquarters in Tokyo, it has two manufacturing plants and a workforce of over 200 people...
  
   (announced sale of camera business May 2006; future production uncertain)
• Marumi
  Marumi
  Marumi is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province....
  
  
• MegaVision
  MegaVision
  MegaVision is an American company that manufactures high-end digital photographic equipment. It was founded in 1983 to create a state-of-the-art image processing computer...
  
  
• Minox
  Minox
  The Minox is a subminiature camera conceived in 1922 and invented in 1936 by German-Latvian Walter Zapp, which Latvian factory VEF manufactured from 1937 to 1943. After World War II, the camera was redesigned and production resumed in Germany in 1948. Originally envisioned as a luxury item, it...
  
  
• Nikon
  Nikon
  , also known as just Nikon, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which...
  
  
• Noblex
  Noblex
  The Noblex is a German made motor-driven swing-lens panoramic camera. There are multiple models of this camera in multiple formats.Cameras with similar functions include the Widelux and Horizon.*...
  
  
• Olympus
  Olympus Corporation
  is a Japan-based manufacturer of optics and reprography products. Olympus was established on 12 October 1919, initially specializing in microscope and thermometer businesses. Its global headquarters are in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, while its USA operations are based in Center Valley, Pennsylvania,...
  
  
• Panasonic
• Panon (see Widelux
  Widelux
  The Widelux is a fully mechanical swing-lens panoramic camera first developed in Japan in 1948, with both 35mm and medium-format models available...
  
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• Pentax
  Pentax
  Pentax is a brand name used by Hoya Corporation for its medical-related products & services and Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company for cameras, sport optics , etc. Hoya purchased and merged with the Japanese optics company on March 31, 2008. Hoya's Pentax imaging business was sold to Ricoh Company, Ltd...
  
  
• Phase One
• Polaroid
  Polaroid Corporation
  Polaroid Corporation is an American-based international consumer electronics and eyewear company, originally founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its instant film cameras, which reached the market in 1948, and continued to be the company's flagship product line until the February...
  
  
• Ricoh
  Ricoh
  or Ricoh, is a Japanese company that was established in 1936 on February 6th, as , a company in the RIKEN zaibatsu. Its headquarters is located in Ricoh Building in Chūō, Tokyo....
  
  
• Rodenstock
  Rodenstock GmbH
  The Rodenstock GmbH is a renowned German manufacturer headquartered in Munich and the only brand producer of the entire spectacles product worldwide...
  
  
• Rollei
  Rollei
  Rollei is a German manufacturer of optical goods founded in 1920 by Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and maker of the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord series of cameras...
  
  
• Ross
  Ross (optics)
  Ross is the name of a succession of London-based lens designers and their company.Andrew Ross founded his company in 1830, from 1840 he began producing camera lenses signed "A. Ross"...
  
  
• Samsung
  Samsung Group
  The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
  
  
• Samyang Optics
  Samyang Optics
  Samyang Optics Company Limited is a Korean company founded in 1972, manufacturing optical equipment, CCTV and photographic accessories. All Samyang lenses are produced in the company's plant in Masan, South Korea...
  
   (Samyang SLR lenses are also branded as Vivitar, Rokinon, Bower or Pro-Optic.)
• Seagull Camera
  Seagull Camera
  Shanghai Seagull Camera Ltd is a Chinese camera maker located in Shanghai, China. Seagull is the oldest camera maker in China. The product line of Seagull includes TLR cameras, SLR cameras, folding cameras, CCD and SLR camera lenses, large-format cameras, film, night vision scopes, and angle...
  
  
• Schneider Kreuznach
  Schneider Kreuznach
  Schneider Kreuznach is the abbreviated name of the company Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, which is sometimes also simply referred to as Schneider. They are a manufacturer of industrial and photographic optics....
  
  
• Sigma
  Sigma Corporation
  is a Japanese company founded in 1961, manufacturing cameras, lenses, flashes and other photographic accessories. All Sigma products are produced in the company's own Aizu factory in Bandai, Fukushima, Japan...
  
  
• Silvestri
  Silvestri camera
  Silvestri is an Italian manufacturer of professional photographic cameras and large format cameras.-The history - SLV and T30:The production of the Silvestri cameras started in Florence, Italy, at the beginning of the eighties by the work of Vincenzo Silvestri who designed and developed the...
  
  
• Sinar
  Sinar
  Sinar AG is a Swiss company producing medium format and large format cameras.The name SINAR is explained as an acronym for "Studio, Industrie, Natur, Architektur, Reproduktion", though in , the acronym is explained as "Sach-, Industrie-, Natur-, undArchitekturfotografie sowie Reproduktion"...
  
  
• Singh-Ray
  Singh-Ray
  Singh-Ray Corporation, known as Singh-Ray Filters is an American maker of photographic filters based in Arcadia, Florida, and established in 1962.They are among the more expensive brands and have a reputation for high quality and personalized service...
  
  
• Soligor
  Soligor
  Soligor was originally the trade mark for the American Allied Impex Corporation, used from 1956 for lenses and later cameras imported from Japan. It imported cameras from Japan and also took control of companies in Japan...
  
  
• Sony
  Sony
  , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
  
  
• Steinheil
  Steinheil
  Steinheil is a surname and may refer to:* Heinrich Steinhowel , a Swabian author, humanist, and translator...
  
  
• Sunpak
  Sunpak
  -List of products:* Sunpak auto zoom 600 flash* RD2000* Auto 16R Pro* PZ42X* PF30X* PF20XD* PZ40X* PZ5000AF* G Flash* D macro* Remote Lite II* Auto 383 Super...
  
  
• Tamron
  Tamron
  is a Japanese company manufacturing photographic lenses, optical components and commercial/industrial-use optics. Tamron Headquarters is located in Saitama City in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan....
  
   (controlled by Sony
  Sony
  , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
  
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• Taylor, Taylor and Hobson (now known as Cooke
  Cooke Optics
  Cooke Optics Ltd. is a camera lens manufacturing company based in Leicester, known earlier as Taylor, Taylor and Hobson and then Taylor Hobson. T. S. Taylor, an optician, his brother W. Taylor, an engineer, and a Mr Hobson, a businessman, formed the company in 1886.The name Cooke originally came...
  
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• Tiffen
  Tiffen
  Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation is a company in Hauppauge, New York, U.S.A. which manufactures filters for photography, and other professional film and photography-related products. Founded in 1945, by Sol Tiffen, the company has won several Academy Awards for technical achievements infiltration...
  
  
• Tokina
  Tokina
  is a Japanese manufacturer of photographic lenses and CCTV security equipment.-History:Tokina, become a partner of Pentax, division of Hoya Corporation and jointly developed some lenses. These will be available under the Pentax and Schneider Kreuznach D-Xenon and D-Xenogon brands in Pentax K mount...
  
   (part of THK Corporation)
• Toyo
  Toyo Engineering Corporation
  is an engineering, procurement and construction company serving mainly the hydrocarbons and petrochemical sectors worldwide.It was established in 1961...
  
  
• Voigtländer
  Voigtländer
  Voigtländer is an optical company founded by Johann Christoph Voigtländer in Vienna in 1756 and is thus the oldest name in cameras. It produced the Petzval photographic lens in 1840, and the world's first all-metal daguerrotype camera in 1841, also bringing out plate cameras shortly afterwards...
  
   (name used under license; original company extinct)
• Wratten see Tiffen
  Tiffen
  Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation is a company in Hauppauge, New York, U.S.A. which manufactures filters for photography, and other professional film and photography-related products. Founded in 1945, by Sol Tiffen, the company has won several Academy Awards for technical achievements infiltration...
  
   (makes the products) and Kodak
  Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
  
   (owns the brand)
• Wray
  Wray (lenses)
  Wray Ltd. was a British camera and lens manufacturer based in Ashgrove Road Bromley, Kent.The company had a reputation for producing excellent quality lenses and durable quality cameras including models such as the Wrayflex. Many Wray lenses remain in use, especially in photographic enlargers.Wray...
  
  
• Zeiss (Zeiss-Ikon product line)
• Zenit
  Zenit (camera)
  Zenit is a Russian camera brand manufactured by KMZ in the town of Krasnogorsk near Moscow since 1952 and by BelOMO in Belarus since the 1970s. The Zenit trademark is associated with 35mm SLR cameras...
  
   see KMZ
  Krasnogorskiy Zavod
  Krasnogorskiy zavod im. S. A. Zvereva is a Russian factory in Krasnogorsk near Moscow which specializes in optical technology.During the Soviet period it was called Krasnogorsk Mechanical Works...
  
  
• Zorki
  Zorki
  Zorki is the name of a series of 35mm rangefinder cameras manufactured in the Soviet Union between 1948 and 1978.The Zorki was a product of the Krasnogorsk Mechanical Factory , which also produced the Zenit single lens reflex camera...
  
   see KMZ
  Krasnogorskiy Zavod
  Krasnogorskiy zavod im. S. A. Zvereva is a Russian factory in Krasnogorsk near Moscow which specializes in optical technology.During the Soviet period it was called Krasnogorsk Mechanical Works...
  
  
• Zuiko see Olympus
  Olympus Corporation
  is a Japan-based manufacturer of optics and reprography products. Olympus was established on 12 October 1919, initially specializing in microscope and thermometer businesses. Its global headquarters are in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, while its USA operations are based in Center Valley, Pennsylvania,...
  
  

Former producers of film cameras who now exclusively make digital cameras

• Kyocera
  Kyocera
  is a multinational manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. The company has diversified its founding technology in ceramic materials through internal development as well as strategic mergers and acquisitions...
  
   (as of 2005, only photo production is cellphone cameras)
• Polaroid
  Polaroid Corporation
  Polaroid Corporation is an American-based international consumer electronics and eyewear company, originally founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its instant film cameras, which reached the market in 1948, and continued to be the company's flagship product line until the February...
  
  
• Ricoh
  Ricoh
  or Ricoh, is a Japanese company that was established in 1936 on February 6th, as , a company in the RIKEN zaibatsu. Its headquarters is located in Ricoh Building in Chūō, Tokyo....
  
  
• Sanyo
  Sanyo
  is a major electronics company and member of the Fortune 500 whose headquarters is located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo targets the middle of the market and has over 230 Subsidiaries and Affiliates....
  
  

Former producers of cameras and/or photographic lenses and filters

• Agfa
  Agfa-Gevaert
  Agfa-Gevaert N.V. is a European multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products and systems, as well as IT solutions. The company has three divisions. Agfa Graphics offers integrated prepress and industrial inkjet systems to the...
  
  
• Ansco
  Ansco
  Ansco was the name of a photographic company based in Binghamton, New York, which produced inexpensive cameras for most of the 20th century. It also sold rebadged versions of cameras made by other manufacturers, including Agfa and Chinon...
  
  
• Atoms
  Calypso (camera)
  The self-contained amphibious underwater Calypso 35mm film camera was conceived by the marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau , designed by Jean de Wouters and manufactured by Atoms in France. It was distributed by La Spirotechnique in Paris from 1960 to 1962. The camera operates down to 200 feet /...
  
   (Calypso underwater camera)
• Carl Braun Camera-Werk
  Carl Braun camera-werk
  Carl Braun Camera-Werk of Nuremberg, Germany, or Braun, as it was more commonly called, was originally founded as an optical production house. It is best known for its 35mm film cameras, the Paxettes, and for slide projectors.-History:...
  
  
• Bronica
  Bronica
  was a Japanese brand of professional medium format roll-film cameras, including rangefinder and single-lens reflex models.Bronica cameras first appeared in 1958, when the company's founder, Zenzaburo Yoshino, introduced a camera of his own design, the Bronica Z rollfilm camera, at the Philadelphia...
  
  
• Contax
  Contax
  Contax was a camera brand noted for its unique technical innovation and a wide range of Zeiss lenses, noted for their high optical quality. Its final incarnation was a line of 35 mm, medium format and digital cameras engineered and manufactured by Kyocera, and featuring modern Zeiss optics...
  
  
• Corfield Ltd
  K. G. Corfield Ltd
  K. G. Corfield Ltd was an innovative camera and lens manufacturing company based in Wolverhampton. The company produced high quality cameras and lenses basing many design features on the Leica range of 35mm cameras. One unique design was employed in the Periflex series of cameras which utilised a...
  
   (Early British camera maker, created the Corfield Periflex
  Corfield Periflex
  The Periflex 35mm rangefinder camera was launched by K. G. Corfield Ltd, England in May 1953 as the first and original model from this source. The camera resembles the Leica Standard and qualifies fully as a Leica copy...
  
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• Coronet Camera Company
  Coronet Camera Company
  The Coronet Camera Company was a British company most noted for its box cameras manufactured in the 1950s.-Products:Notable products include:* The Coronet Ambassador - a box camera taking 6x9cm format pictures on 120 film...
  
  
• Otto Berning
  Otto Berning
  Otto Berning & Co. is a German company known chiefly for producing the Robot line of cameras. The company is located in Schwelm, Westphalia, Germany, with production facilities in Düsseldorf. Otto Berning & Co. was founded in 1934 by Hans Heinrich Berning with financial assistance from his father....
  
   Gmbh. (Made the Robot
  Robot (camera)
  Robot is a German imaging company known originally for clockwork cameras, later producing surveillance and bank security cameras. Originally created in 1934 as a brand of Otto Berning and Co., it became part of the Jenoptik group of optical companies in 1999...
  
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• Bell & Howell
  Böwe Bell & Howell
  Bell & Howell is a U.S.-based former manufacturer of motion picture machinery, founded as Bell & Howell in 1907 by two projectionists, and headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois. The company merged with Böwe Systec Inc...
  
  
• Chinon
  Chinon Industries
  was a Japanese camera manufacturer. Kodak took a majority stake in the company in 1997, and made it a fully owned subsidiary of Kodak Japan, , in 2004 . As a subsidiary, it continues to develop digital camera models....
  
  
• David White Company (Stereo Realist
  Stereo Realist
  The Stereo Realist was a stereo camera that was manufactured by the David White Company from 1947 to 1971. It was the most popular 35mm stereo camera ever manufactured and started the era of stereo photography for the masses that continued even after it was no longer manufactured.-History:Seton...
  
  )
• Ducati
• FED
  FED (camera)
  The FED is a Soviet rangefinder camera, mass produced from 1934 until around 1990, and also the name of the factory that made it.FED is indirectly named after Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka...
  
  
• Ferrania
  Ferrania
  Ferrania S.p.A. is a manufacturing company located in Ferrania , Italy.The original firm was started in 1923 as a maker of photographic films, papers, and equipment. The company was purchased in 1964 by the 3M company, who spun it off to their Imation Division. The firm was acquired by Schroder...
  
  
• Franka
  Franka
  Franka is a popular Dutch comic book series drawn and written since the mid 1970s by the graphic artist Henk Kuijpers. The principal character is a strong female Dutch sleuth who solves mysteries in exotic locales....
  
  
• Graflex
  Graflex
  Graflex was a manufacturer, a brand name and several models of cameras. William F. Folmer, an inventor, built the first Graflex camera in 1898, when his company was called The Folmer and Schwing Manufacturing Company, founded originally in New York as a gas lamp company...
  
  
• Honeywell
  Honeywell
  Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....
  
  
• Ihagee
  Ihagee
  Ihagee was a camera manufacturer based in Dresden, Germany. Its best-known product was the Exakta single-lens reflex camera.-History:Johan Steenbergen, a Dutchman, founded a camera company called Industrie- und Handelsgesellschaft in Dresden in 1912. The name was shortened to Ihagee...
  
  
• Ilford
  Ilford Photo
  Ilford Photo is a manufacturer of photographic materials known worldwide for its black-and-white film and papers and chemicals, as well as its range of Ilfochrome and Ilfocolor colour printing materials. Ilfochrome was formerly called Cibachrome, developed in partnership with the Swiss company...
  
   (still produces film and chemicals)
• Keystone
  Keystone Camera Company
  The Keystone Camera Company was an American manufacturer of consumer photographic equipment. Notable products were Movie cameras, 126 and 110 cameras with built in electronic flash ....
  
   (126 and 110 Cameras with Built in flash, Movie Cameras)
• Kiron Lenses
  Kiron Lenses
  Kiron Lenses were photographic lenses distributed by the Kiron Corporation, formerly based in Carson, California, USA.-History:The company was set up as a U.S. subsidiary of Kino Precision Industries Limited, Tokyo, Japan and registered as a trademark on Jan 25 1980, in order to market...
  
  
• Konica
  Konica
  was a Japanese manufacturer of, among other products, film, film cameras, camera accessories, photographic and photo-processing equipment, photocopiers, fax machines and laser printers.- History :...
  
  
• Konishiroku (see Konica Minolta
  Konica Minolta
  is a Japanese manufacturer of office equipment, medical imaging, graphic imaging, optical devices, and measuring instruments. It is headquartered in the Marunouchi Center Building in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with a Kansai office in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture...
  
  )
• Konica Minolta
  Konica Minolta
  is a Japanese manufacturer of office equipment, medical imaging, graphic imaging, optical devices, and measuring instruments. It is headquartered in the Marunouchi Center Building in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with a Kansai office in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture...
  
   (as of 2006 may still manufacture on an OEM basis for Sony)
• Leitz (formerly owned Leica)
• Leidolf
  Leidolf
  Leidolf was a manufacturer of optical equipment situated in Wetzlar, Germany. It was founded by Rudolf Leidolf in 1921, initially producing lenses for microscopes. In 1948 camera production was started and in 1962 the factory ceased operations...
  
  
• Lord see Okaya
  Okaya Optical
  Okaya Optical Co., Ltd. was the manufacturer in the 1950s of "Lord" cameras, "Vista" binoculars, and other optical products....
  
  
• Meopta
  Meopta
  Meopta is Czech-American global manufacturer of precision optics, specializing in the design, engineering and assembly of complex optical, opto-mechanical and opto-electronic systems. Meopta makes stuff for the consumer, industrial and military markets....
  
   (still produces many optical products)
• Minolta
  Minolta
  Minolta Co., Ltd. was a Japanese worldwide manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It is perhaps best known for making the first integrated autofocus 35mm SLR camera system...
  
  
• Micro Precision Products
  Micro Precision Products
  Micro Precision Products Ltd was a British optical company that between 1941 and 1982 produced cameras and related equipment....
  
  
• Miranda
  Miranda Camera Company
  The Miranda Camera Company, originally named the Orion Camera Company, manufactured cameras in Japan between 1955 and 1978. Their first camera was the Miranda T. Many of their products were single-lens reflex cameras for 135 film...
  
  
• MPP (see Micro Precision Products
  Micro Precision Products
  Micro Precision Products Ltd was a British optical company that between 1941 and 1982 produced cameras and related equipment....
  
  )
• Nicca
  Nicca
  The Nicca Camera Co. Ltd. started as the optical workshop Kōgaku Seiki Co. in 1940, founded by former employees of Canon. Its first camera, the Nippon, a close copy of the Leica rangefinder camera, was produced in 1942....
  
  
• Nimslo
  Nimslo
  The Nimslo is a stereo camera with a brightfield viewfinder that produces 3D pictures which can be viewed without glasses. This is done using Lenticular printing. It uses common 35 mm film in 135 film format cartridges. It was produced in the 1980s by Nimstec Atlanta, Georgia, USA.-Features:The...
  
   (4 lens 35mm 3D camera)
• Norita
  Norita
  was a Japanese optical manufacturer. Founded in 1951 by Toshio Norita , it originally made lenses for binoculars but moved on to prisms and thence pentaprisms for SLR cameras....
  
  
• Okaya
  Okaya Optical
  Okaya Optical Co., Ltd. was the manufacturer in the 1950s of "Lord" cameras, "Vista" binoculars, and other optical products....
  
  
• OPL
  Optique & Précision de Levallois
  Société Optique et Précision de Levallois, S.A. was founded in 1919, although its predecessor dated from 1911. It produced rangefinders, military, medical, and scientific optics, and the "Foca" and other rangefinder cameras, at Levallois and Châteaudun .Sales fell off after 1961 and on 1 January...
  
  
• Orion see Miranda
  Miranda Camera Company
  The Miranda Camera Company, originally named the Orion Camera Company, manufactured cameras in Japan between 1955 and 1978. Their first camera was the Miranda T. Many of their products were single-lens reflex cameras for 135 film...
  
  
• Pentacon
  Pentacon
  Pentacon is the company name of a once-important camera manufacturer in Dresden, Germany.The name Pentacon is derived from the brand Contax of Zeiss Ikon Kamerawerke in Dresden and Pentagon, as a Pentaprism for Single-Lens Reflex cameras was for the first time developed in Dresden...
  
   (Praktica
  Praktica
  Praktica is a brand of camera manufactured by Pentacon in Dresden in eastern Germany, formerly within the GDR prior to reunification. Pentacon is the modern-day successor to Dresden camera firms such as Zeiss Ikon, and for many years Dresden was the world's largest producer of cameras...
  
  )
• PerkinElmer
  PerkinElmer
  PerkinElmer, Inc. is an American multinational technology corporation, focused in the business areas of human and environmental health, including environmental analysis, food and consumer product safety, medical imaging, drug discovery, diagnostics, biotechnology, industrial applications, and life...
  
  
• Petri
  Petri Camera
  The Camera Company was an optical company and manufacturer of cameras in Japan. It was founded in 1907. Prior to World War II, it was known as Kuribayashi Shashin Kōgyō or Kuribayashi Camera Industry, inc. Japan...
  
   Founded 1907 as 'Kuribayashi Camera Works'
• Rectaflex
  Rectaflex
  Rectaflex was the name of an Italian camera maker from 1947 to 1953. It was also the name of their sole model, the only Italian single-lens reflex camera ever built.- The original Rectaflex :...
  
  
• Robot
  Robot (camera)
  Robot is a German imaging company known originally for clockwork cameras, later producing surveillance and bank security cameras. Originally created in 1934 as a brand of Otto Berning and Co., it became part of the Jenoptik group of optical companies in 1999...
  
   See Otto Berning
  Otto Berning
  Otto Berning & Co. is a German company known chiefly for producing the Robot line of cameras. The company is located in Schwelm, Westphalia, Germany, with production facilities in Düsseldorf. Otto Berning & Co. was founded in 1934 by Hans Heinrich Berning with financial assistance from his father....
  
  
• Steinheil
  Steinheil
  Steinheil is a surname and may refer to:* Heinrich Steinhowel , a Swabian author, humanist, and translator...
  
  
• Tessina
  Tessina
  The Tessina is a high-quality 35 mm camera patented by Austrian chemical engineer Dr. Rudolph Steineck in Lugano Switzerland, manufactured by Siegrist in Grenchen Switzerland. It was introduced in 1957 and distributed by Steineck's company Concava S.A and remained in production up to 1996...
  
  
• Thornton-Pickard
  Thornton-Pickard
  Thornton-Pickard was a famous British camera manufacturer established in 1888. The company was based in Altrincham, near Manchester and was an early pioneer in the development of the camera industry.-Brief history of the company:...
  
  
• Topcon
  Topcon
  Topcon is a Japanese manufacturer of optical equipment for ophthalmology and surveying. Their headquarters are in Itabashi, Tokyo. They are affiliated with Toshiba, which holds 40% of Topcon's stock.-History of Topcon:...
  
   (still manufactures optical instruments)
• Tokyo Optical see Topcon
  Topcon
  Topcon is a Japanese manufacturer of optical equipment for ophthalmology and surveying. Their headquarters are in Itabashi, Tokyo. They are affiliated with Toshiba, which holds 40% of Topcon's stock.-History of Topcon:...
  
  
• Tower (a house brand
  Store brand
  Store brands are a line of products sold by a retailer under a single marketing identity. They bear a similarity to the concept of House brands, Private label brands in the United States, own brands in the UK, and home brands in Australia and generic brands...
  
   of Sears)
• Vivitar
  Vivitar
  Vivitar Corporation was a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of photographic and optical equipment originally based in Oxnard, California. Since 2008 the Vivitar name serves as Sakar International's photographic and optical equipment brand.-Products:...
  
  
• Wollensak
  Wollensak
  Wollensak was an American manufacturer of audio-visual products. At the height of their popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, many brands of movie cameras came with a Wollensak Velostigmat lens. Wollensak reel-to-reel tape recorders were prized for their robust construction and value.-History:The...
  
  
• Wray
  Wray (lenses)
  Wray Ltd. was a British camera and lens manufacturer based in Ashgrove Road Bromley, Kent.The company had a reputation for producing excellent quality lenses and durable quality cameras including models such as the Wrayflex. Many Wray lenses remain in use, especially in photographic enlargers.Wray...
  
  
• Yashica
  Yashica
  Yashica was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras.-History:The company began in December, 1949 in Nagano, Japan, when the Yashima Seiki Company was founded with an initial investment of $566. Its eight employees originally manufactured components for electric clocks...
  
  
• Zenza see Bronica
  Bronica
  was a Japanese brand of professional medium format roll-film cameras, including rangefinder and single-lens reflex models.Bronica cameras first appeared in 1958, when the company's founder, Zenzaburo Yoshino, introduced a camera of his own design, the Bronica Z rollfilm camera, at the Philadelphia...
  
  

List of camera accessory makers

• Adorama
  Adorama
  Adorama is a camera and film store in New York City. Although not as large as more general retailers like Best Buy or Circuit City, the store at 42 West 18th Street, Manhattan, specializing in photo equipment, offers the consumer a better chance of finding a specific model of camera...
  
  
• Benbo
• Benro
• Beseler
  Beseler
  Beseler is the surname which may refer to:People* Hans Hartwig von Beseler , German* Elmer Beseler Harris , American businessman and politicianOther* Beseler company...
  
  
• Billingham Bags
• Bowens
  Bowens International
  Bowens International was originally founded as Bowens Camera Service Company, a London based camera repair company, in 1923 which by the 1950s had grown to be one of the largest in Europe. In 1963, the name Bowens International LTD. was registered....
  
  
• Brandess-Kalt-Aetna Group -- BKA
• Crumpler
  Crumpler
  Crumpler is a bag company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and Berlin, Germany, with global offices in Brooklyn and Cologne. It began as a messenger bag company, but has since expanded its range, notably into laptop bags and camera bags.- History :...
  
  
• CTS Safe Voltage Syncs
• Domke
• Electra (Thai camera and professional studio accessories manufacturer)
• Etsumi
• General Brand
• Gitzo
  Gitzo
  Gitzo S.A. is a manufacturer of photographic accessories, including bags, but specialising in tripods and supports.Founded in France by Arsène Gitzhoven in 1917 initially producing cameras, shutters, and cable releases, but between 1942 and 1944 with World War II, the company closed for the...
  
  
• Hakuba
• Hama
  Hama Photo
  With 18,000 products, the Hama GmbH & Co KG is one of the world’s leading accessory manufacturers specialising in a number of areas including photo, video, audio, multimedia and telecommunications. The company also acts as a distributor of various product ranges. Hama employs around 2500 people all...
  
  
• Harrison & Harrison Optical Engineers, Inc.
• Honl
• Joby
• Kata
• Kirk Enterprises
• Leaf
• Lowepro
  Lowepro
  Lowepro is a global brand of professional carrying solutions for cameras, laptops, imaging accessories and portable consumer electronics with corporate headquarters in Petaluma, California North Bay Business Journal. January 10th, 2011...
  
  
• LumoPro
  LumoPro
  LumoPro is a brand of lighting and studio equipment for amateur and professional photographers, which started in 2004. Their purpose is to offer products to photographers at a reduced cost.- Products :LumoPro manufactures and sell:* stands* grids/clamps...
  
  
• Manfrotto Group
  Manfrotto Group
  Manfrotto is a brand manufactured by Lino Manfrotto + Co. Spa, a company headquartered in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. Manfrotto is a worldwide leading brand in the manufacturing of camera and lighting supports. Manfrotto is owned by the UK company The Vitec Group, which purchased Lino Manfrotto +...
  
  
• Meopta
  Meopta
  Meopta is Czech-American global manufacturer of precision optics, specializing in the design, engineering and assembly of complex optical, opto-mechanical and opto-electronic systems. Meopta makes stuff for the consumer, industrial and military markets....
  
  
• Metz
  Metz (company)
  Metz-Werke GmbH & Co KG is a German consumer electronic manufacturer. Besides Loewe and TechniSat, Metz is the only remaining TV manufacturer which develops and produces their devices in Germany. Its head office is in Zirndorf, Bavaria.-Products:...
  
  
• Micro Precision Products
  Micro Precision Products
  Micro Precision Products Ltd was a British optical company that between 1941 and 1982 produced cameras and related equipment....
  
  
• MPP (see Micro Precision Products
  Micro Precision Products
  Micro Precision Products Ltd was a British optical company that between 1941 and 1982 produced cameras and related equipment....
  
  )
• Multiblitz
  Multiblitz
  Multiblitz is a German manufacturer of professional studio flashes and lighting accessories. The company was founded in 1948 in Cologne, Germany by inventor and entrepreneur Dr. D.A. Mannesmann and is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of state-of-the-art studio lighting.-Company Overview &...
  
  
• OP/TECH USA
• Panasonic
• Polaroid
  Polaroid Corporation
  Polaroid Corporation is an American-based international consumer electronics and eyewear company, originally founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its instant film cameras, which reached the market in 1948, and continued to be the company's flagship product line until the February...
  
  
• Really Right Stuff
  Really Right Stuff
  Really Right Stuff is a San Luis Obispo, California-based manufacturer of ball head-style camera tripod heads, quick-release plates and related camera gear....
  
  
• Sigma
  Sigma Corporation
  is a Japanese company founded in 1961, manufacturing cameras, lenses, flashes and other photographic accessories. All Sigma products are produced in the company's own Aizu factory in Bandai, Fukushima, Japan...
  
  
• Slik
• Sunpak
  Sunpak
  -List of products:* Sunpak auto zoom 600 flash* RD2000* Auto 16R Pro* PZ42X* PF30X* PF20XD* PZ40X* PZ5000AF* G Flash* D macro* Remote Lite II* Auto 383 Super...
  
  
• SRB
• Tamrac
  Tamrac
  Tamrac, Inc. is an US-based manufacturer of photographic equipment bags and backpacks.Established in 1977 by a group of amateur photographers who enjoyed nature photography, Tamrac is based in California....
  
  
• Think Tank Photo
  Think Tank Photo
  Think Tank Photo is a U.S. based manufacturer that designs and sells camera bags and accessories designed for use by professional and advanced amateur photographers and multimedia producers, specially those who use digital SLR cameras...
  
  
• Tiffen
  Tiffen
  Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation is a company in Hauppauge, New York, U.S.A. which manufactures filters for photography, and other professional film and photography-related products. Founded in 1945, by Sol Tiffen, the company has won several Academy Awards for technical achievements infiltration...
  
  
• Triopo
• UNI-LOC
• Velbon
  Velbon
  Velbon is a manufacturer of photographic accessories, specialising in tripods.Based in Japan and established in the 1950s, it has three manufacturing facilities, one each in Japan, Taiwan and China....
  
  
• Vivitar
  Vivitar
  Vivitar Corporation was a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of photographic and optical equipment originally based in Oxnard, California. Since 2008 the Vivitar name serves as Sakar International's photographic and optical equipment brand.-Products:...
  
  
• Wimberley
• Zing
  Zing
  Zing or ZING may refer to:* Zing , Singapore-born and Hong Kong-based makeup artist* Zing , the 2010 Sweet Adelines International champion quartet* Zing , an Indian music TV channel...
  
  
• Zoerk

Current

• Banse and Grohmann GmbH (unclear what they manufacture themselves, and what is repackaged. They use the brand name Wephota)
• China Lucky Film
  China Lucky Film
  China Lucky Film Corporation is the largest photosensitive materials and magnetic recording media manufacturer in Baoding, Hebei province, China.-History:...
  
  
• Efke
  Efke
  Efke is the brand name of photographic films, papers, and chemicals manufactured by Fotokemika d.d., a company located in Samobor, Croatia.-Products description:...
  
   (including the old ADOX
  ADOX
  In photography, ADOX is a trademark with a long history. It was originally a brand name used by the German company, Fotowerke Dr. C. Schleussner GmbH of Frankfurt am Main, the world's first photographic materials manufacturer. The company's founder, Dr...
  
   formulas)
• Foma  (including Paterson brand)
• Forte (including Classic Pan and Bergger
  Bergger
  The Bergger company was begun over a century ago by French manufacturer Guilleminot. The company manufactures monochrome photographic film 35mm to 20"x24" as well as photographic paper and chemicals....
  
   brands)
• Ferrania
  Ferrania
  Ferrania S.p.A. is a manufacturing company located in Ferrania , Italy.The original firm was started in 1923 as a maker of photographic films, papers, and equipment. The company was purchased in 1964 by the 3M company, who spun it off to their Imation Division. The firm was acquired by Schroder...
  
   (including the Solaris brand)
• Fujifilm
  Fujifilm
  is a multinational photography and imaging company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.Fujifilm's principal activities are the development, production, sale and servicing of color photographic film, digital cameras, photofinishing equipment, color paper, photofinishing chemicals, medical imaging...
  
  
• GigabitFilm (based on an Agfa
  Agfa-Gevaert
  Agfa-Gevaert N.V. is a European multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products and systems, as well as IT solutions. The company has three divisions. Agfa Graphics offers integrated prepress and industrial inkjet systems to the...
  
   microfilm)
• Ilford Photo
  Ilford Photo
  Ilford Photo is a manufacturer of photographic materials known worldwide for its black-and-white film and papers and chemicals, as well as its range of Ilfochrome and Ilfocolor colour printing materials. Ilfochrome was formerly called Cibachrome, developed in partnership with the Swiss company...
  
   (went bankrupt in 2004, but reorganized and restarted production)
• Kodak
  Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
  
  
• Maco
  Maco (film company)
  Maco is a Germany based supplier of photographic films including old 127 size film....
  
   (as of 2005 often packaged and marketed as Rollei
  Rollei
  Rollei is a German manufacturer of optical goods founded in 1920 by Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and maker of the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord series of cameras...
  
   brand film)
• Svema
  Svema
  Svema is a registered trade mark and former name of the Shostka Chemical Plant, located in Shostka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. It was founded in 1931 in then Ukrainian SSR....
  
  
• Tasma

Former

• AgfaPhoto
  AgfaPhoto
  AgfaPhoto GmbH is a European photographic company, formed in 2004 when Agfa-Gevaert sold their Consumer Imaging division. Agfa had for many years been well known as a producer of consumer-oriented photographic products including films, photographic papers and cameras...
  
   (bankrupt; remaining film stocks being liquidated. Former parent company, Agfa
  Agfa-Gevaert
  Agfa-Gevaert N.V. is a European multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products and systems, as well as IT solutions. The company has three divisions. Agfa Graphics offers integrated prepress and industrial inkjet systems to the...
  
   still exists)
• Imation
  Imation
  Imation is a US based multi-national technology corporation that designs, manufactures and sells recordable data storage media, consumer electronics products and accessories.The company is a 1996 spin off of 3M and is headquartered in Oakdale, Minnesota...
  
   (formerly part of 3M
  3M
  3M Company , formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota, United States....
  
  ), (sold x-ray business to Kodak, still film division now Ferrania
  Ferrania
  Ferrania S.p.A. is a manufacturing company located in Ferrania , Italy.The original firm was started in 1923 as a maker of photographic films, papers, and equipment. The company was purchased in 1964 by the 3M company, who spun it off to their Imation Division. The firm was acquired by Schroder...
  
   makes other products)
• Konica
  Konica
  was a Japanese manufacturer of, among other products, film, film cameras, camera accessories, photographic and photo-processing equipment, photocopiers, fax machines and laser printers.- History :...
  
   (merged with Minolta
  Minolta
  Minolta Co., Ltd. was a Japanese worldwide manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It is perhaps best known for making the first integrated autofocus 35mm SLR camera system...
  
  , exited film business in 2005)
• ORWO
  ORWO
  ORWO was an East German manufacturer of photographic film and magnetic tape. The basis for ORWO was the Agfa Wolfen plant, where the first modern colour film with incorporated colour couplers, Agfacolor, was developed in 1936....
  
   (bankrupt 1995, Trademark sold to two different companies. Motion Picture stock now made by Filmtec, processing business sold to another firm.)
• Perutz-Photowerke (founded in 1880 by Otto Perutz
  Otto Perutz
  Otto Perutz was an Austrian-German chemist.From 1872 to 1876 Perutz was director of Bayerische Aktiengesellschaft für chemische und landwirtschaftlich-chemische Fabrikate in Munich-Heufeld.In 1880 he founded his own firm...
  
  , since 1964 owned by Agfa, closed down in 1994)
• Photo Porst (also known as just Porst, founded in 1919 by Hanns Porst, bankrupt 2002)
• Polaroid
  Polaroid Corporation
  Polaroid Corporation is an American-based international consumer electronics and eyewear company, originally founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its instant film cameras, which reached the market in 1948, and continued to be the company's flagship product line until the February...
  
  
• Revue (a label owned by PhotoQelle, a subsidiary of Quelle, known as Arcandor
  Arcandor
  Arcandor AG is a holding company located in Essen, Germany that oversees companies operating in the businesses of mail order and internet shopping, department stores and tourism services. It was created in 1999 through the merger of Karstadt Warenhaus AG, which was founded in 1920, and Quelle...
  
   today; several sources claim that Revue films were actually repackaged stock leftover of other companies, first Fuji/3M, later Agfa)
• Sakura (see Konica
  Konica
  was a Japanese manufacturer of, among other products, film, film cameras, camera accessories, photographic and photo-processing equipment, photocopiers, fax machines and laser printers.- History :...
  
  )
• Tura Film AG (bankrupt March 2005)

List of semiconductor sensor makers and/or designers

Sensor types CCD

Charge-coupled device

A charge-coupled device is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time...

, CMOS

CMOS

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor is a technology for constructing integrated circuits. CMOS technology is used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, static RAM, and other digital logic circuits...

, NMOS

NMOS logic

N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor logic uses n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors to implement logic gates and other digital circuits...

, PMOS

PMOS logic

P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor logic uses p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors to implement logic gates and other digital circuits...

• Canon
• Dalsa
  Dalsa
  Teledyne DALSA is a Canadian company specializing in the design and manufacture of specialized electronic cameras.The company was founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1980 by imaging pioneer Dr. Savvas Chamberlain, a former Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo...
  
   (formerly part of Philips
  Philips
  Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....
  
  )
• Fill Factory, now part of Cypress Semiconductor
  Cypress Semiconductor
  Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor design and manufacturing company founded by T. J. Rodgers and others from Advanced Micro Devices. It was formed in 1982 with backing by Sevin Rosen and went public in 1986. The company initially focused on the design and...
  
  
• Foveon
  Foveon
  Foveon, Inc., is the company that makes the Foveon X3 sensor, which captures images in digital single-lens reflex cameras such as the Sigma Corporation SD9, SD10, SD14 and SD15 as well as in the compacts DP1, DP2 and Polaroid X530....
  
  
• Fujifilm
  Fujifilm
  is a multinational photography and imaging company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.Fujifilm's principal activities are the development, production, sale and servicing of color photographic film, digital cameras, photofinishing equipment, color paper, photofinishing chemicals, medical imaging...
  
  , designers of the Super CCD
  Super CCD
  Super CCD is a proprietary charge-coupled device that has been developed by Fujifilm since 1999. The Super CCD uses octagonal, rather than rectangular, pixels...
  
  
• Kodak
  Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
  
  
• Matsushita
• Nikon
  Nikon
  , also known as just Nikon, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which...
  
   (designs, but as of 2006 does not yet fabricate)
• Photobit, a spinoff of Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...
  
   (JPL), now owned by Micron Technology
  Micron Technology
  Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. This includes DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips. Consumers may be more familiar with its consumer brand Crucial...
  
  
• Sony
  Sony
  , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
  
  
• Samsung Digital Imaging, part of Samsung Corporation, producers of the CMOS sensor for Samsung-Pentax DSLR´s and Samsung Video Cameras

External links

• Extended list of camera manufacturers at camerapedia
• Camera Manufacturing Companies Family Tree - clusters of interconnected companies (mergers, acquisitions, split-ups).