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.

3M Acro Adams Adams & Westlake Adobe Adox Advanced Plus Aetna Agfa 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 Ancient Magic Angénieux Ansco Anthony Aoba Apparate & Kamerabau Apparatebau und Kamerafabrik Apple Arae Aram Arax Arca Swiss Arco Argentum Argus 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 Astro Berlin Ataka Atom Atoms Aubertin B W Baby Kamera Kenkyūjo Balcar Balda Banno Barnet Ensign Bardin Baron Bauchet Baudry Bausch & Lomb Beauty Beck Beier (Beirette) Belca Bell & Howell Bell International Bell Labs Bellieni Belomo Bencini Bender Photographic Benetfink Bentzin Bermpohl Bernard Berthiot Beseler Bewi Bilora Binoca Birnbaum Blair Bolsey Bolta Boots Boston Camera Mfg. Co. Boumsell Boyer Braun (Paxette) Briois British Ferrotype Bronica Bronzavia Brooks (Veriwide) Brumberger Burke & James Busch Busch, Emil Butcher Calumet Cambo Camera Man, The Cam-O Candid (Perfex) Candid Camera Supply K. B. Canham Canon Carl Casio Centon Century Certo Charten Chicago Camera Co. 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 Croma Cromofilter (Cokin) Crown Optical Crystal Crystar Dacora Daidō Daiichi Kikō Daiichi Kōgaku (Zenobia) Daiichi Kōki Daimaru Daimon Daitoh Daiyū Dallmeyer Dalsa Dan Shashin-yōhin Darian David White (Stereo Realist) Dax Shōkai Deardorff Decaux Deckel Demaria-Lapierre (Telka) Detrola De Vry Dia Optical Co. Dixons Doi Dollond Doris Camera Doryu Druopta Dufa Durst Dycam Earth Ebner Ebony Echt Eder Efke Ehira Eho-Altissa Eikōdō Elbow Elcan Elega Elgeet Elliott Elmo Enna Endō Epson Ernemann Esca Eumig FAP (Norca) FED Feinmess Ferrania Fex FIL Finetta Fisher-Price The Focus Fodor Foitzik Folmer & Schwing Foth Fotofex Fotoimpex Fototecnica Foto-Quelle (Revue) Foveon Foxconn Franka Friedrich

Fuji (FujiFilm) Fuji Kōgaku Fuji Seimitsu Fuji Shashin Kōgyōsha Fujimoto Fujita Fujiwara Fukada Shōkai Fuku Bōeki Futami Shōkai Futura Kamerawerk GmbH Fuyōdō GAF Gallus Gamma Gandolfi Gaoersi Gassner and Marx Gaumont Gauthier Geiss Gem Industrial General Electric General Imaging Genkōsha G. Gennert Genos Georges Paris (Gap) Gerlach, Adolf Gevaert 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) GoPro Gossen Gotō Kōgaku Goyō Graf Graflex GRC Great Wall Plastic (Diana) G.T.S. (Muley) Hachiyō (Alpenflex) Hagi Hagimoto Haking (Halina) Hanimex Hare Harukawa Haruki Hasegawa Hasselblad Hattori Tokei-ten (Seikosha) Heart Sangyō Héard & Mallinjod (Hemax) Hermagis Herold Mfg Co. Hewlett-Packard Hideyoshi Hinode Hioki HNS Hōei Hofmans Hokuto 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 Jeicy Camera Works Jeilin Jenoptik JID Jilona Kadunder Kaftanski Kafu Kagiya Kajiro Kōgaku (K.O.L.) Kalimar Kaneki Kankyū Kansai Kōgaku Kanto Kardon Kashimura Kashiwa Katsuma Kawakami Kawara Keith Kemper Kenko (Tokina) Kenngott Kerman Kershaw Keystone Kigawa Kikō Shōji Kikōdō Kimura Kinax King (Regula) King Shōkai Kinjō Kinshō (K.S. Fabrik) Kintetsu Kintin KMZ (Zenit, Zorki, Horizon) Kobayashi Seiki (Kopil) Kobayashi Seikō Kochmann (Korelle) Kodak AG (Retina) Kodak Ltd. Kodak USA Kodak Pathé Koike Seiki Kojima Kokusaku Komamura KOMZ 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 Lena Lensless Camera Leonar Leotax Linhof Lipca Lista Lizars Logitech LOMO (Lubitel) Lotus View Camera Ludwig Lumière LG Group (LG) Lustre Dr. Lüttke & Arndt LZOS Maki Shōji Mamiya Manhattan Optical Co. Manufrance Mars Marusan Marusō Maruyama Mascot Camera Masmy Masumi Matsuhisa Matsushima Matsushita (Panasonic) Matsuzaki

Medion Meguro (Melcon) Mejiro (Honor) Mentor Meopta Metropolitan Industries Metz Meyer MFAP (Pontiac) MGA Entertainment Mihama Mikado Shōkai Milburn Million Shōkai Mima Shōkai Mimosa Minagawa Minica Minolta Minox MIOM Miranda Misuzu Kōgaku Misuzu Shōkai (Midget) Mitsukoshi Miyagawa (Picny, Boltax) Miyama Miyamoto Miyoshi Kōgaku (U.L.L.) Mizuho Mizuno MMZ Mollier Molta MOM Monroe Montanus (Rocca) Montgomery Ward Mori Morita Motodori MPP MRS Mukui Mundus Murakami Musashi Musashino (Rittreck) Mycro Camera Mycro-sha Nagaoka Nagata Nagel Nakamura Patē Shōkai Nakayama Narimasu National Instrument Corp. Nefotaf Neidig Neoca Nettel Neumann & Heilemann New Taiwan Nicca Nichiei Shōkai Niezoldi & Krämer (Nizo) Niida Niishin Riken 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 Novoflex Obergassner (Oga) Ōfuna Ogasawara Ōhashi Okada (Waltax) Okamoto Okano Okari Okaya (Lord) Ōki Olbia Olympus Ōmiya (Hansa) Omori Onoon OPL (Foca) Optochrom Oriental Orionwerk Orion Seiki (Miranda) Ōsaka Shashinki Shōkai Ōsawa Otowa (Middl) Owla Panon (Widelux) Pentacon (Praktica) Pentax Perken Son & Rayment Petri Phase one Philips Pho-Tak Photo News Photopia Pierrat Pignons (Alpa) Plawa (AgfaPhoto) Pioneer Camera Plaubel (Makina) Plavic Pluto PMC Polaroid Polskie Zaklady Optyczne (PZO) Porst (Hapo) Potthoff Pouva Powershovel Précidès Premier Proud Purma Ray RBT Rectaflex Reichenbach, Morey and Will Reid & Sigrist Reise Rengō Rich-Ray Richter Ricoh (Steky) Rietzschel Riken Riley Robot Rochester Camera and Supply Co. Rochester Optical Co. Rocket Camera Co. Rodenstock Rokuoh-sha Roeschlein-Kreuznach Rokuwa (Rocca) Rollei Rolls Rolly Rosko Ross Ross Ensign Roto H. Roussel Royer Rüdersdorf Ryūbi Sakata Samoca Samsung Samyang Sanderson Sanei Sangyō (Samoca) SanDisk Saneidō Sanesudō Sankei Kōki Sankei Shōkai Sankō Sankyō Kōgaku Sankyō Kōki (Komura) Sans & Streiffe Sansei Kōki Sanshin Sanwa (Mycro) Sanyo Sanyō Shōkai Sasaki Satō Satsuki Sawyer's (View-Master) Schacht Schmidt Shōten Schneider Scovill Seagull Sears Sedic Seibidō Seiki Kōgaku Seikōdō Seikōsha Seitō 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 Kōgaku (Leotax) Shōwa Kōki SIAP Sigma Sinar Sister Skanhex Smart Shop Soho Sone Shunsuidō Sony Sound Vision E.J. Southern Spartus Spiratone Spirotechnique Staeble Standard Cameras Ltd (Conway) Svetozor-Polaroid Star Steiner Steinheil Stöckig (Union) Sugaya Sugihara Sugimoto Sugimoto Sugiyama Sukiya Sumida Sumimitsu Summit Sun Sunart Sunex Super Shashin-yōhin Suruga Suter Suzuki 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 Taron Taylor-Hobson 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 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 Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku Toyo Seiko Tōyō-sha Tōyō Shashinki-zai Transvision Tsuji Tsukada T.Y.O.W. Udagawa Ueda Ueno Ugajin UMAX Technologies (UMAX) Umemoto Union Kōgaku United Optical Instruments United States Camera Universal Utility Manufacturing Company (Falcon) Vageeswari Vena Victor Camera Victor Company of Japan (JVC) Visca Vivitar Voigtländer Vokar Voss (Diax) Vredeborch Walker Walz Wards Warszawskie Zakłady Fotooptyczne (WZFO) Watkins Watson Welta Western Camera Manufacturing Co. Weston Whitehouse Products (Beacon) Wica Wetzlar WIPA Wirgin (Edixa) Wista Wittnauer Woca Wollensak Wray Wünsche 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 YK Yoshino Kōgaku Yoshino Shashinki-ten Yoshino Shōkai Zeh Zeika Carl Zeiss (Werra) Zeiss Ikon Carl Zeiss Palmos Zenith Zenobia Kōgaku Zero Image ZOMZ Zoran Zuihō (Honor) Zuman Zunow