List of major photo camera manufacturers

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The list of important photo camera manufacturers also refers to providers of cameras and their accessories, not just manufacturers , as different providers have their products manufactured by other manufacturers or sell their developments exclusively under their own names.

See also: Portal: photography , photo technology , photo industry , list of important photographers , index of photographic terms

A.

  • Agfa : films of all kinds as well as analog cameras
  • Alpa : medium format analog / digital (formerly small picture).
  • Arca-Swiss : large format cameras.

B.

C.

  • Cambo : large format cameras.
  • Camogli : medium format cameras.
  • Canham Cameras : large format cameras.
  • Canon : APS cameras, digital cameras, 35 mm cameras, lenses.
  • Carena : 35mm cameras, lenses
  • Casio : digital cameras.
  • Chinon : digital cameras, 35mm cameras.
  • Contax : APS cameras, digital cameras, small format cameras, medium format cameras.

D.

  • Dr. Guild : Medium Format Cameras.
  • DHW Photo Technology : digital and analog medium format cameras, TLR medium format cameras, view cameras, small format cameras

E.

  • Epson : digital cameras.
  • Ernemann-Werke AG : cinema projectors and cameras, including the Ermanox with the most powerful serial lens in the world at the time

F.

  • FED : 35mm cameras.
  • Fujifilm : APS cameras, digital cameras, 35mm cameras, medium format cameras.

G

H

I.

  • Ihagee : 35mm cameras (named Exa and Exakta ).

J

K

  • Kalimar : 35mm cameras, medium format cameras, lenses.
  • Camera factory Dresden : Panorama cameras for small and medium format (name Noblex ).
  • Kiev : medium format cameras, 35 mm cameras.
  • Kodak : APS cameras, 35mm cameras, digital cameras.
  • Konica : APS cameras, digital cameras, small format cameras, medium format cameras, lenses.
  • Konica Minolta : merger of Konica and Minolta; Digital cameras, lenses.
  • Kōwa : medium format cameras.
  • Kyocera : (see also Yashica and Contax): digital cameras.

L.

  • Leaf : Digital back walls for medium format cameras.
  • Leica : APS cameras, analog cameras, digital cameras, 35mm cameras.
  • Linhof : large format cameras, medium format cameras.
  • Lomo : analog 35 mm viewfinder cameras.
  • Lotus-View : large format cameras.

M.

  • Mamiya : 35mm cameras, medium format cameras, digital cameras
  • Meyer optics : v. a. Lenses
  • Minolta : APS cameras, digital cameras, small format cameras, medium format cameras, lenses.
  • Minox : digital cameras, 35mm cameras.
  • Mustek : digital cameras.

N

  • Nikon : APS cameras, digital cameras, 35mm cameras, lenses for GF cameras.

O

  • Olympus : APS cameras, digital cameras, 35mm cameras.

P

  • Panasonic : digital cameras, smartphones.
  • Pentacon : digital cameras, small format cameras (called Praktica ), formerly also medium format cameras.
  • Pentax : digital cameras, small format cameras, medium format cameras.
  • Phase One : Digital cameras (digital backs).
  • Plaubel : large format cameras
  • Polaroid : digital cameras, instant photo systems chemical.

R.

  • RBT: stereo cameras and projectors.
  • Reflekta-Kamerawerk Tharandt : TLR medium format cameras, Reflekta
  • Ricoh : digital cameras, 35mm cameras.
  • Rheinmetall : 35mm cameras EXA, Exakta
  • Rollei : digital cameras, small format cameras, digital and analog medium format cameras, TLR medium format cameras.

S.

  • Sakar International accessories, digital cameras
    brands Vivitar , Kodak
  • Salyut: medium format cameras.
  • Samsung : digital cameras, 35mm cameras.
  • Sanyo : digital cameras.
  • Sigma : digital cameras, 35mm cameras, lenses.
  • Silvestri : large format cameras.
  • Sinar : digital cameras, large format cameras.
  • Sony : digital cameras, lenses.

T

Y

  • Yashica (see also Kyocera and Contax): digital cameras, 35mm cameras.
  • Yashica-Kyocera : medium format cameras.

V

  • Vinten : aerial cameras.
  • Vivitar : digital cameras, interchangeable lenses.
  • Voigtländer : APS cameras, digital cameras, 35mm cameras, the world's first photo zoom lens, currently: only lenses.

W.

  • Walker Cameras : large format cameras.
  • Welta : medium format cameras, TLR, 35mm cameras. Later absorbed in Pentacon .
  • Wish, Emil AG : magazine cameras, folding floor cameras with folding mechanism, travel cameras; merged with ICA Dresden in 1909.

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