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.

Acro 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 Apparatebau und Kamerafabrik Aoba Apple Aram Arax Arca Swiss Arco Argus Ars Ars Optical Arsenal (Kiev) Artima As de Trèfle Asaflex Asahi Bussan Asahi Kōgaku Asahi Musen Asahi Shashin Kōgyō Asanuma Shashinki-ten Asanuma Shōkai Asao Tenchidō Astro Berlin Ataka Atom Atoms Aubertin Baby Kamera Kenkyūjo Balcar Balda Banno Barnet Ensign Bardin Baron Bauchet Baudry Bausch & Lomb Beauty Beck Beier (Beirette) Belca Bell & Howell Bellieni Belomo Bencini Bentzin Bermpohl Berthiot Beseler Bewi Bilora Binoca Birnbaum Blair Bolsey Bolta Boots Boston Camera Mfg. Co. Boumsell Boyer Braun (Paxette) Briois Bronica Bronzavia Brooks (Veriwide) Brumberger 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 Closter C.M.F. Compass Cameras Concord Condor Camera Conley Contessa Contessa-Nettel Cooke Copal Cord 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 Fototecnica Foto-Quelle (Revue) Franka Friedrich Fuji Fuji Kōgaku Fuji Seimitsu Fuji Shashin Kōgyōsha Fujimoto Fujita Fujiwara Fukada Shōkai Fuku Bōeki Futami Shōkai Fuyōdō GAF Gallus Gamma Gandolfi Gaumont Gauthier General Electric Genkōsha G. Gennert Genos Georges Paris (Gap) Gerlach, Adolf Gevaert G.H. Works Ginrei Girard Giroux Gitzo Gnome Goerz Goerz (Austria) 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 Héard & Mallinjod (Hemax) Hermagis Herold Mfg Co. Hewlett-Packard Hinode Hioki Hōei Hofmans Holga Honjō Horseman Houghtons (Ensign) Houghton-Butcher (Ensign) Hoya Hunter Hüttig Hwa Ni ICA I.C.A.F. Ichikawa Ichikawaya Ichizuka Idam Ideax Ihagee (Exakta) Ihara Ilford Iloca Imperial (Herbert George Co.) International Innovations IPC Irwin Ishii Isco Ising Iso Itō Iwato Jackson Jeilin Jenoptik JID Kafta Kafu Kajiro Kōgaku (K.O.L.) Kalimar Kaneki 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 Kodak Pathé 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 Lancaster Lark Camera Leaf Leica Leidolf Leitmeyr Leonar Leotax Linhof Lipca Lista Lizars LOMO (Lubitel) Ludwig Lumière

Lustre Dr. Lüttke & Arndt 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 Mollier Molta MOM Monroe Montanus (Rocca) Mori Morita Motodori MPP Mundus Murakami Musashi Musashino Nagaoka Nagata 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 Norisan Apparatebau 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 Pouva Précidès Premier Proud Purma Ray RBT Rectaflex Reid & Sigrist Reise Rengō Rich-Ray Richter Ricoh (Steky) Rietzschel Riken Riley Robot Rochester Optical Co. Rocket Camera Co. Rodenstock Rokuoh-sha Roeschlein-Kreuznach Rokuwa (Rocca) Rollei Rolly Rosko Ross Ross Ensign Roto H. Roussel Royer 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 Sone Shunsuidō Sony Spartus Spirotechnique Staeble Standard Cameras Ltd (Conway) Star Steiner Steinheil Sugaya Sugihara Sugimoto Sumida Sumimitsu Sun Super Shashin-yōhin Suruga 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) Watson Welta Weston 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