List of companies

This page contains a list of camera-related companies: camera makers, lens makers, shutter makers and distributors. When a brand name is better known than the company name, it is mentioned in parentheses.

Companies

3M ACMA Acro Actina Adams (A. Adams & Co.) Adams (Montgomery Ward) Adams & Westlake Adobe Adox (Schleussner) Advanced Plus Aetna AFIOM Agfa Agfa Ansco Agilux Aiptek Aires Akabane Akakabe Akita Ako Alfa Camera Allied Impex (Soligor) Aloha Alsaphot American Advertising and Research Co. American Camera American Home Industries American Optical Anagramm Ancient Magic André and Lieutier Angénieux Ansco Anthony Aoba Apparate & Kamerabau Apparatebau und Kamerafabrik Apple Arae Aram Arax Arca Swiss Arco Argentum Argus Arnold Ars Ars Optical Ars Seiki Arsenal (Kiev) Artima As de Trèfle Asaflex Asahi Bussan Asahi Kōgaku Asahi Musen Asahi Shashin Kōgyō Asahi Shōten Asanuma Shashinki-ten Asanuma Shōkai Asao Tenchidō Aspen Astro Berlin Ataka Atom Atoms Aubertin Avant AVO Baby Kamera Kenkyūjo Baco Accessories Company Balcar Balda Banno Barnet Ensign Bardin Baron Bertram, Ernst & Wilhelm Bauchet Baudry Bausch & Lomb Beauty Beck Beier (Beirette) Belca Bell Camera Company Bell & Howell Bell International Bell Labs Bellieni Belomo Bencini Bender Photographic Benetfink Bentzin Bergger Berkey Berlebach Bermpohl Bernard Berthiot Beseler Best Products Betterlight Bewi Bilora Bing Binoca Birnbaum Blacks Photo Blair Bleitz Camera Company Bluefire Bolsey Bolta Boots Gebrüder H. Bopp Boston Camera Mfg. Co. Boumsell Bowens Boyer Bradac brothers Brand Camera Company Braun (Paxette) Briois British Ferrotype Bronica Bronzavia Brooks (Veriwide) Brumberger Bullard Burke & James Busch Busch, Emil Bushnell Butcher B W Calumet Cambo Cambron The Camera Man Camera Specialty Co. (Caspeco) Cam-O Candid (Perfex) Candid Camera Supply K. B. Canham Canon Cappelli Carl Carpentier Casio Caspeco CatLABS Centon Century Certex Certo J.T. Chapman Charten Chamonix Chicago Aerial Chicago Camera Co. Chicago Ferrotype Co. Chinaglia Chinon Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō (Minolta) Chiyoda Kōgaku Kōgyō Chiyoda Shōkai Chūō Seiki Chūō Shashin-yōhin Chūyūsha Cima Cimark Cinescopie Ciro Citizen Clarus Clément Closter C.M.F. Compagnie Française de Photographie Compass Cameras Concord Condor Camera Conley Contessa Contessa-Nettel Continental Cooke Copal Cord Corfield (Periflex) Corning Cornu Coronet Cosina Cosmo Costruzioni Ottico Meccaniche Italiane (COMI) Cragstan Croma Cromofilter (Cokin) Crown Optical Crystal Crystar Dacora Daidō Daiichi Kikō Daiichi Kōgaku (Zenobia) Daiichi Kōki Daimaru Daimon Daitoh Daiyū Dallmeyer Dalka Dalsa Dan Shashin-yōhin Darian David White (Stereo Realist) Dax Shōkai Deardorff Decaux Deckel DeJur-Amsco Demaria-Lapierre (Telka) Detrola De Vry DHW Fototechnik Dia Optical Co. Dixons Doi Dollond Doris Camera Doryu Druopta Drucker Dufa Dufay (Dufay-Chromex) Durst Dycam E.F.I.C.A. Earth EBI Ebner Ebony Echt Eder Efke Ehira Eho-Altissa Eichapfel Eikōdō Elbow Elcan Elega Elgawa Elgeet Elliott Ellison Kamra Company Elmo ELOP Enna Endō Epson ERA Ernemann Esca Eumig Edward Eves Limited Expert Expo Camera Company Faller Faltus FAP (Norca (35mm)) FED Feinmess Ferrania Fex FFV FIL Finetta Fisher-Price The Focus Fodor Foitzik Folmer & Schwing Foma (Fotochema) Forte Foth Fotofex

Fotoimpex Foto-Quelle (Revue) Fotospeed Fototecnica Fővárosi Finommechanikai Vállalat Foveon Fowell Foxconn E. Français Franka Friedrich Fuji (FujiFilm) Fuji Kōgaku Fuji Seimitsu Fuji Shashin Kōgyōsha Fujimoto Fujita Fujiwara Fukada Shōkai Fuku Bōeki Futami Kōki Futami Shōkai Futura Kamerawerk GmbH Fuyōdō GAF Galileo Gallus Gamma Gamma Optikail Művek Gandolfi Gaoersi Gassner and Marx Gatto Gaumont Gauthier Geiss Gem Industrial General Electric General Imaging Genkōsha G. Gennert Genos Georges Paris (Gap) Gerlach, Adolf Gevaert GGS G.H. Works Ginrei Girard Giroux Gitzo Glico Glunz Gnome Goerz Goerz (Austria) Gojō Kōki (K.O.L.) Goko Gold Camera Goldammer Goldmann Goldstein Goltz & Breutmann GOMZ (Lubitel) GoPhoto GoPro Gossen Gotō Kōgaku Goyō Graf G.P.M. Graflex Green.L Griffiths GRC Great Wall Plastic (Diana) G.T.S. (Muley) Guilleminot Hachiyō (Alpenflex) Hagi Hagimoto Haking (Halina) Hall Hanimex Hare Harukawa Haruki Hasegawa Hasselblad Hattori Tokei-ten (Seikosha) Heart Sangyō Héard & Mallinjod (Hemax) Hegelein Hermagis Herold Mfg Co. Hewlett-Packard Hideyoshi Hinode Hioki HNS Hōei Hofmans Hokuto Holga Honjō Houghtons (Ensign) Houghton-Butcher (Ensign) Hoya Hulcher Hunter Hüttig Hwa Ni ICA I.C.A.F. Ichikawa Ichikawaya Ichizuka Idam Ideax Ihagee (Exakta) Ihara Ilford Iloca Imacon Imperial (Herbert George Co.) Indra Camera Intrepid Intreprinderea Optica Romana (IOR) Industria Scientifica Ottica (ISO) Industrias Sintéticas Abril Inoue International Innovations IPC Irwin Isco Ising Ishibashi Ishii ISO Itō Iwato J. Osawa Jaca Corporation Jackson Jano Camera Co. (M. Janovitch) Japy Jeicy Camera Works Jeilin Jenoptik JID Jilona Jobo Johnson Jos-Pe Joux Kadunder Kaftanski Kafu Kagiya Kahles Kajiro Kōgaku (K.O.L.) Kalimar Kamera- und Apparatebau Wien Kaneki Kankyū Kansai Kōgaku Kanto Kardon Kashimura Kashiwa Katsuma Katsura Kawakami Kawara KB Gear Keith Kemper Kenko (Tokina) Kenngott Kentmere Kerman Kern Kershaw Keystone Kiesewetter Kigamo Kigawa Kikō Shōji Kikōdō Kimura Kinax King (Regula) King Shōkai Kinjō Kino Precision Kinshō (K.S. Fabrik) Kintetsu Kintin Klein Kmart KMZ (Zenit, Zorki, Horizon) Kobayashi Seiki (Kopil) Kobayashi Seikō Kochmann (Korelle) Kodak AG (Retina) Kodak Ltd. Kodak USA Kodak Pathé Koike Seiki Kojima Kokusaku Kolar Komamura (Horseman) Komine Co., Ltd. KOMZ Kondo Konica Konica Minolta Konishiroku Kongsbak & Cohn Koritska Kōryōsha Koshimitsu Kōsoku-sha Kōsoku Kikan Kotani Kowa Kōwadō Kōyō Krauss Krügener Kuribayashi Kuwata (Mulber) KW (Praktica) Kyocera (Yashica, Contax) Kyokutō Kyōto Seiki Kyōwa Kyūreidō Laack Laboratorios Mechanicos M.C. (Nebro Argentina) Lamperti and Garbagnati Lancaster Lark Camera Leaf Lee Industries Leica Leidolf Leitax Leitmeyr Leivtec Lena Lenco Lensless Camera Leonar Leotax Levy-Roth Linhof Lipca Lista Lizars Logitech LOMO (Lubitel) Long Hall Technologies Ernst Lorenz Lotus View Camera Lucky film (China Lucky Film) Ludwig Lumière Lustre Dr. Lüttke & Arndt LZOS Mackenstein Maki Shōji Maco Makina Optical Mamiya Manhattan Optical Co. Manufrance MAPED Marlow Mars Marumi Marusan Marusō Maruyama Maruzen Mascot Camera Masmy Masumi Matsuhisa Matsushima Matsushita (Panasonic)

Matsuzaki Mazo Meagher Medion MegaVision Meguro (Melcon) Mejiro (Honor) Mentor Meopta Metropolitan Industries Metz Meyer MFAP (Pontiac) MGA Entertainment Mihama Mikado Shōkai Milburn Miller Outcalt (KALT) Million Shōkai Mima Shōkai Mimosa Minagawa Minica Minifex Minolta Minox Mint MIOM Miranda Misuzu Kōgaku Misuzu Shōkai (Midget) Mitsukoshi Miyagawa (Picny, Boltax) Miyama Miyamoto Miyoshi Kōgaku (U.L.L.) Mizuho Mizuno MMZ Mollier Molta MOM Monarck (Monarch) Monroe Montanus (Rocca) Montgomery Ward Mori Morita Motodori MPP MRS Mukui Multiblitz Multi-Speed Münch Mundus Murakami Murer & Duroni Musashi Musashino (Rittreck) Mycro Camera Mycro-sha Nagaoka Nagata Nagel Nakamura Patē Shōkai Nakayama Narimasu National Instrument Corp. National Photocolor Corporation Nauticam Nedinsco Nefotaf Negra Neidig Neithold Nemrod Neoca Nettel Neubert Neumann & Heilemann Neville Brown & Co Ltd (Nebro, UK) New Taiwan New55 FILM Newman & Guardia Nicca Nichiei Shōkai Nichizui Niezoldi & Krämer (Nizo) Niida Niishin Riken Nihon Kōden Nihon Seiki Nihon Seimitsu Kōgyō Nihon Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsha Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Nihon Shōkai Nikoh Nikon Nippon Kōgaku Nippon Kōki Nimslo Nippon Kōsokki (Taron) Nishida Nishika Nissan Kōgaku Nisshin Shōkō Nittō Kōgaku Nittō Seikō Nittō Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsha Nittō Shashin Yōhin Nixon N.M.K. Noblex Nokia Nomura Norisan Apparatebau Norita Norma Novoflex NPC Obergassner (Oga) Ōfuna Ogasawara Ōhashi OIP (Optiques et Instruments de Précision) Okada (Waltax) Okamoto Okano Okari Okaya (Lord) Ōki Olbia Old Delft (Oude Delft) Olympus OM Omega Omes Ōmiya (Hansa) Omori ONDU Onoon OPCON Associates OPL (Foca) Oplica Optikotechna Optochrom Oriental Orionwerk Orion Seiki (Miranda) Ōsaka Shashinki Shōkai Ōsawa Oshiro Osram Otowa (Middl) Ottico Meccanica Italiana Owla Pakon (Pako) Panon (Widelux) Pearson and Denham Pentacon (Praktica) Pentax Perka Perken, Son & Rayment Perkin-Elmer Perutz Petri Phase one Phenix Philips Pho-Tak Photo News Photopia Pierrat Pignons (Alpa) Pixii Plawa (AgfaPhoto) Pioneer Camera Plaubel (Makina) Plavic Plasmat Pluto PMC Polaroid Polskie Zaklady Optyczne (PZO) Porst (Hapo / Carena) Potthoff Poulenc Frères Pouva Powershovel (SuperHeadz) Praktica Précidès Premier Image Technology Corporation Premier Instrument Corporation Prestwich Promaster Promura Prosch Proud Purma QRS Company Quantum Rau Ray Raynox RBT RCP Rectaflex Recesky Reflex Camera Reichenbach, Morey and Will Reid & Sigrist Reichert Reise Rencay Rengō Revue - see Foto-Quelle Reynolds and Branson Rich-Ray Richard (Jules) Ricoh (Steky) Riken Richter Rietzschel Riley Ring Light Digital Ritz Camera Rittreck Robot Rochester Camera and Supply Co. Rochester Optical Co. Rochester Panoramic Camera Co. Rocket Camera Co. Rocks Rodehüser Rodenstock Roeschlein-Kreuznach Rokuoh-sha Rokuwa (Rocca) Rollei Rolls Rolly Rosko Ross Ross Ensign Rothgiesser & Schlossmann Roto W.W. Rouch H. Roussel Royal Camera Royer Rüdersdorf Rudolf Kiesewetter Ryūbi Sakar Sakata Samoca Samsung Samyang Sanae Shōkai Sanderson SanDisk Sands & Hunter Sanei Sangyō (Samoca) Saneidō Sanesudō Sankei Kōki Sankei Shōkai Sankō Sankyō Kōgaku Sankyō Kōki (Komura) Sans & Streiffe Sansei Kōki Sanshin Sanwa (Mycro) Sanyo Sanyō Shōkai Sasaki Satō Sarvis Satsuki Sawyer's (View-Master) Schacht Schaller Schmidt Shōten Schneider

Schott Schwarzbauer, Johann Scovill Seagull Sears Secam Sedic Seibidō Seiki Kōgaku Seikō Denki Kōgyō (Sekonic) Seikōdō Seikōsha Seitō Sekonic SEM (Semflex) Seneca Seymour Shackman Shanghai Shenhao Sharp Shashin Bijutsuin J.F. Shew Shibayama Shibundō Shichiyō (Pluto) Shikōdō Shimadzu Shimura Shin Nippon Shinano Shinbidō Shinchō Shinkō Seiki Shinkō Shōji Shinwa Seiki Shiono Shōei Shōwa Kōden Shōwa Kōgaku (Leotax) Shōwa Kōki SIAP Silberra Siciliano Camera Works Sida GmbH Sigma Silvestri Simda Simmon Bros (Omega) Sinar Sinclair Sirio (S.I.R.I.O.) Sister Skanhex Slavich Slik Smart Shop SMPICGG (Shanghai) Soho Sone Shunsuidō Sony Sound Vision E.J. Southern Spartus Speich Sperling (HSB West Germany) Spiratone Spirotechnique Staeble Standard Cameras Ltd (Conway) Svetozor-Polaroid Star Camera Co. Star Camera Company, The Star Camera Works Starblitz Stegemann Steiner Steinheil Stöckig (Union) Sugaya Sugihara Sugimoto Sugiyama Sukiya Sumida Sumimitsu Summit Sun Sunpak Sunart Sunex Sunpet Suntone Super Shashin-yōhin Suruga Susse Frères Suter Suzuki Svensson Swallow Tachibana Tachihara Tahbes Taikodō Takashimaya Taisei Kōgaku (Tamron) Taisei Kōki Taiyō Kōki (Viscawide) Taiyōdō (Beauty) Takagawa Takahashi Takane (Mine Six) Takasago Takemoto Tamron Tamura Nisshindō Tanaka (Mulix) Tanaka Kōgaku (Tanack) Tanaka Shōkai Taniyama Tapak Interntional Taron Tasma (Tacma) Taylor-Hobson Teikoku Kōgaku Teikoku Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsha Tektronix Tenshōdō Teraoka (Terra) Thornton-Pickard Thowe Tianjin Tiffen Tiranti Tiranty Tōa Denki Seiki Tōa Kinzoku Tōa Kōki (Gelto) Tōa Kōki-sha Tōa Kokusaku Seikō Tohken Tohko Tōhō Kōgaku Tōhōkōken Tōkai Shashin-yōhin Tokiwa Kōgaku Tokiwa Seiki Tōgōdō (Tougodo) Tōkōdō Tōkō Shashin Tōkyō Denki Tōkyō Kamera Tōkyō Kamera Shōkai Tōkyō Kōgaku (Topcon) Tōkyō Kōken (Dolca) Tōkyō Kōsoku Seiki-sha Tōkyō Niimiyakan Tōkyō Seiki Tōkyō Shashinkan Tōkyō Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsha Tōkyō Shashin Shōkai Tomioka Top Camera Co. Top Camera Works Tōsei (Frank) Toshiba Tōshin Bōeki Tougodo Tōyō Kōki (Tone) Tōyō Kōki Seizō Traid Corporation Trusite Tōyō Seiki Kenkyūjo Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku Toyo Seiko Tōyō-sha Tōyō Shashinki-zai Transvision Trust Tsuji Tsukada Tura Tynar Corporation T.Y.O.W. UCA Udagawa Ueda Ueno Ugajin UMAX Umemoto Underwood Union Kōgaku United Optical Instruments United States Camera Universa Universal Utility Manufacturing Company (Falcon) Vageeswari Valca Vasconcellos Vastfame Velbon Vena Vergne Victor Camera Victor Company of Japan (JVC) Paul Vieth Vinten Visca Vivitar Vive Camera Company Voigtländer Vokar Voss (Diax) Vredeborch Walker Walker Cameras Wallace Heaton Walz Wanderlust Cameras Wards Warszawskie Zakłady Fotooptyczne (WZFO) Watkins Watson Weimar Wekaha Welta Werner Western Camera Manufacturing Co. Westfälische Kamera und Apparatebau Weston Whitehouse Products (Beacon) Whittaker Wica Wetzlar WIPA Wild Wilkin-Welsh Will Williamson Winbond Electronics Corporation Wirgin (Edixa) Wisner Wista Wittnauer Woca Wollensak Wray Wünsche Xiamen Fuda Photographic Material (Fuda) Yachiyo Yakumo Yale Yamagata Yamamoto Kōjō Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsakusho Yamamoto Shashinki-ten Yamanashi Seisanbu Yamasaki Kōgaku (Congo) Yamasaki Seiki Yamashita Yamato Yashica (Contax) Yashima (1950s) Yashima (1970s) Yasuhara Yi YK Yokoyama Yoshino Kōgaku Yoshino Shashinki-ten Yoshino Shōkai Yunon Zar Zeh Zeika Carl Zeiss (Werra) Zeiss Ikon Carl Zeiss Palmos Zenith Zenobia Kōgaku Zion (France) Zero Image ZOMZ Zoran Zuihō (Honor) Zuman Zunow

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