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.

Adams & Westlake Adobe Adox Advanced Plus Agfa Agilux Aiptek Aires Akabane Akita Ako Alfa Camera Allied Impex (Soligor) Aloha Alsaphot American Optical Angénieux Ansco Anthony Apparate & Kamerabau Aoba Apple Aram Arax Arca Swiss Arco Argus Ars Arsenal (Kiev) Asahi Bussan Asahi Kōgaku Asahi Musen Asahi Shashin Kōgyō Asanuma Shashinki-ten Asanuma Shōkai Asao Tenchidō Astro Berlin Ataka Atom Atoms Baby Kamera Kenkyūjo Balda Banno Baron Bausch & Lomb Beauty R & J Beck Beier (Beirette) Bell & Howell Belomo Bencini Bermpohl Berthiot Beseler Bilora Binoca Birnbaum Blair Bolsey Bolta Boots Boston Camera Mfg. Co. Boumsell Boyer Braun (Paxette) Briois Bronica Brooks (Veriwide) Burke & James Busch Busch, Emil Butcher Calumet Cambo Cam-O K. B. Canham Canon Carl Casio Century Certo Chinon Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō (Minolta) Chiyoda Kōgaku Kōgyō Chiyoda Shōkai Chūō Seiki Chūō Shashin-yōhin Chūyūsha Ciro Citizen Clarus C.M.F. Compass Cameras Concord Condor Camera Conley Contessa Contessa-Nettel Cooke Copal Corfield (Periflex) Cornu Coronet Cosina Cosmo Cragstan Cromofilter (Cokin) Crystal Crystar Dacora Daidō Daiichi Kikō Daiichi Kōgaku (Zenobia) Daiichi Kōki Daimaru Daimon Daitoh Dallmeyer Dalsa Dan Shashin-yōhin Darian David White (Stereo Realist) Dax Shōkai Deardorff Decaux Deckel Demaria-Lapierre (Telka) Dia Optical Co. Dixons Doi Dollond Doris Camera Druopta Dufa Durst Earth Ebony Ehira Ehito Eikōdō Elbow Elcan Elega Elmo Enna Endō Epson Ernemann Esca Eumig FAP (Norca) FED Feinmess Ferrania Fex Finetta Foitzik Folmer & Schwing Foth Fotofex Foto-Quelle (Revue) Franka Friedrich Fuji

Fuji Kōgaku Fuji Seimitsu Fuji Shashin Kōgyōsha Fujimoto Fujita Fujiwara Fukada Shōkai Fuku Bōeki Futami Shōkai Fuyōdō GAF Gamma Gandolfi Gap (Georges Paris) Gaumont Gauthier General Electric Genkōsha G. Gennert Gevaert G.H. Works Ginrei Giroux Gitzo Goerz Gojō Kōki (K.O.L.) Goko Gold Camera Goldammer Goldstein Goltz & Breutmann GOMZ (Lubitel) Gossen Gotō Kōgaku Graflex GRC Great Wall Plastic (Diana) Hachiyō (Alpenflex) Hagi Hagimoto Haking (Halina) Hanimex Haruki Hasegawa Hasselblad Hattori Tokei-ten (Seikosha) Heart Sangyō Hermagis Herold Mfg Co. Hewlett-Packard Hinode Hioki Hōei Hofmans Holga Honjō Horseman Houghton, Houghton-Butcher (Ensign) Hoya Hüttig Hwa Ni ICA I.C.A.F. Ichikawa Ichikawaya Ichizuka Ideax Ihagee (Exakta) Ihara Ilford Iloca Imperial (Herbert George Co.) International Innovations IPC Ishii Isco Ising Itō Iwato Jeilin Jenoptik JID Kafu Kajiro Kōgaku (K.O.L.) Kalimar Kankyū Kansai Kōgaku Kanto Kardon Kashimura Katsuma Kawakami Kawara Kazenderu Keith Kenko (Tokina) Kenngott Kershaw Keystone Kigawa Kikō Shōji Kikōdō Kimura Kinax King (Regula) King Shōkai Kinjō Kinshō (K.S. Fabrik) Kintetsu KMZ (Zenit, Zorki, Horizon) Kobayashi Kochmann (Korelle) Kodak AG (Retina) Kodak Ltd. Kodak USA Koike Seiki Kojima Kokusaku Kondo Konica Konica Minolta Konishiroku Kongsbak & Cohn Koritska Kōsoku-sha Kōsoku Kikan Kotani Kowa Kōwadō Kōyō Krauss Krügener Kuribayashi Kuwata (Mulber) KW (Praktica) Kyocera (Yashica, Contax) Kyokutō Kyōto Seiki Kyōwa Kyūreidō Laack J. Lancaster & Son Lark Camera Leaf Leica Leidolf Leitmayr Leonar Leotax Linhof Lipca Lista J. Lizars LOMO (Lubitel) Ludwig Lumière Lustre Maki Shōji Mamiya Manhattan Optical Co. Manufrance Mars Maruyama

Masumi Matsuhisa Matsushita (Panasonic) Matsuzaki Mentor Meopta Metz Meyer MFAP (Pontiac) Mihama Million Shōkai Mima Shōkai Mimosa Minagawa Minolta Minox MIOM Miranda Misuzu Shōkai (Midget) Mitsukoshi Miyagawa (Picny, Boltax) Miyamoto Miyoshi Kōgaku (U.L.L.) Mizuho Mizuno MMZ Molta MOM Monroe Montanus (Rocca) Mori Morita Motodori MPP Murakami Musashi Musashino Nagaoka Nagel Nakamura Patē Shōkai Nakayama Nefotaf Neidig Neoca Nettel Neumann & Heilemann New Taiwan Nicca Nichiei Shōkai Niezoldi & Krämer (Nizo) Niida Niishin Riken Nihon Kōki Nihon Seiki Nihon Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsha Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Nihon Shōkai Nikon Nippon Kōgaku Nippon Kōsokki (Taron) Nishida Nissan Kōgaku Nisshin Shōkō Nittō Kōgaku Nittō Seikō Nittō Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsha Nittō Shashin Yōhin Nixon Noblex Nokia Nomura Ōfuna Ogasawara Ōhashi Okada (Waltax) Okano Okari Okaya (Lord) Ōki Olbia Olympus Ōmiya (Hansa) Omori Onoon OPL (Foca) Optochrom Oriental Orion Seiki (Miranda) Ōsaka Shashinki Shōkai Ōsawa Shōkai Otowa (Middl) Owla Panon (Widelux) Pentacon (Praktica) Pentax Perken Son & Rayment Petri Pho-Tak Photo News Sha Pierrat Pignons (Alpa) Pioneer Camera Plaubel (Makina) Pluto Polaroid Polskie Zaklady Optyczne (PZO) Porst (Hapo) Potthoff Premier Proud Purma Ray RBT Rectaflex Reid and Sigrist Reise Rengō Rich-Ray Richter Ricoh (Steky) Rietzschel Riken Riley Rochester Optical Co. Rocket Camera Co. Rodenstock Rokuoh-sha Roeschlein-Kreuznach Rokuwa (Rocca) Rollei Rolly Rosko Ross Ross-Ensign H. Roussel Rüdersdorf Ryūbi Samoca Samsung Samyang Sanderson Sanei Sangyō (Samoca) Saneidō Sanesudō Sankei Kōki Sankei Shōkai Sankō Sankyō Kōki (Komura) Sans & Streiffe Sansei Kōki Sanshin Sanwa Sanyo Sanyō Shōkai Sasaki Satō Satsuki Sawyer's (View-Master) Schacht Schmidt Shōten Schneider Scovill Seagull Sears Sedic Seibidō

Seikōsha Seitō SEM (Semflex) Seneca Shanghai Shenhao Shashin Bijutsuin Shibayama Shibundō Shichiyō (Pluto) Shikōdō Shimadzu Shin Nippon Shinano Shinbidō Shinkō Seiki Shinkō Shōji Shinwa Seiki Shiono Shōei Shōwa Kōgaku (Leotax) Shōwa Kōki SIAP Sigma Sinar Sister Soho Ltd. Sone Shunsuidō Sony Spartus Staeble Standard Cameras Ltd (Conway) Star Steiner Steinheil Sugaya Sugihara Sugimoto Sumida Sumimitsu Sun Super Shashin-yōhin Suruga E. Suter Suzuki Tachibana Tachihara Taikodō Takashimaya Taisei Kōgaku (Tamron) Taisei Kōki Taiyōdō (Beauty) Takagawa Takahashi Takane (Mine Six) Takasago Takemoto Tamron Tamura Nisshindō Tanaka (Tanack) Tanaka Shōkai Taniyama Taron Teikoku Kōgaku Teikoku Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsha Tenshōdō Teraoka (Terra) Tiffen Tiranty Thornton-Pickard Thowe 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 Shōkai Tōkyō Kōgaku (Topcon) Tōkyō Kōken (Dolca) Tōkyō Kōsoku Seiki-sha Tōkyō Seiki Tōkyō Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsha Tōkyō Shashin Shōkai Tomioka Top Camera Tōsei (Frank) Toshiba Tougodo Tōyō Kōki Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku Toyo Seiko Tōyō Shashinki-zai Transvision Tsuji Tsukada T.Y.O.W. Udagawa Ueda Ueno Umemoto Union Kōgaku United States Camera Universal Utility Manufacturing Company (Falcon) Vena Victor Camera Vivitar Voigtländer Voss (Diax) Vredeborch Walz Wards Warszawskie Zakłady Fotooptyczne (WZFO) W. Watson & Sons Welta Whitehouse Products (Beacon) Wica Wetzlar WIPA Wirgin (Edixa) Wittnauer Woca Wollensak Wray Wünsche Yachiyo Yale Yamagata Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsakusho Yamamoto Shashinki-ten Yamanashi Seisanbu Yamasaki Kōgaku (Congo) Yamasaki Seiki Yamashita Yamato Yashica (Contax) Yashima (1950s) Yashima (1970s) Yasuhara YK Yoshino Zeh Zeika Carl Zeiss (Werra) Zeiss Ikon Carl Zeiss Palmos Zenobia Kōgaku Zenith Zero Image Zoran Zuiho Zuman Zunow