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A Long List of Film Camera Brands

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This is a list of film camera brands and film camera companies. Many of these vintage camera brands have many models that can be found for sale online.

I will try to add information and links over time.

They made and continue to make medium format cameras. ALPA is still in business.

Arnold & Richter (see Arri)

Bell & Howell

Rebranded Canon FL and FD mount cameras were sold under the Bell & Howell brand.

Manufactuers technical cameras used by professional photographers.

Canon became the largest camera brand in the 1990’s. Notible film cameras include the Canon AE-1.

Canon 35mm film camera lens mounts:

The Canon R-mount Not to be confused with the RF mount used on digital mirrorless cameras.

Fujifilm / Fujinon

Imported Pentax cameras into the United States. It’s why some cameras, like the Spotmatic, are “Honeywell Pentax” and others are just “Pentax”.

This was the company that made Kiron lenses. Some of those were white labeled as Vivitar Series 1 lenses.

Expensive RED dot.

Best know for manufacturing medium format cameras.

Made small 35mm film cameras.

I’m a big fan of the FM2. Plus, the F-mount was kinda popular.

In addition to making SLR cameras, Olympus manufactured many point-and-shoot cameras that are still desirable.

OM system lenses are interesting in that the aperture ring is at the front of the lens. It’s an interesting experience.

Now owned by Ricoh. It was formerly owned by Hoya Corporation. The history of Pentax on Wikipedia is interesting.

Many 35mm SLRs that Ricoh released used the Pentax K-mount.

Made the Calypso underwater camera.

Burke & James

Rembrandt View Portrait Camera; 5x7 plate format

Stereo Realist camera.

J. Lancaster & Son

Was purchased by Minolta.

Konica Minolta started off the transition to digital with a recall to their flagship camera, the 7D. Early 5D models were also affected by the first black frame problem.

The result was a massive loss which caused the camera division to be sold to Sony. That’s why the Sony A-mount is the same as the Minolta A-mount.

Made the Nimslo 3D camera, which was used to create lenticular 3D prints. These prints would appear 3-dimentional, without 3D glasses.

Nishika is best known for making 4 lens 3D film cameras. The four half frame images these cameras captured where used to create 3D lenticular prints. The brand is related to Nimslo, which created and sold the first quadra lens camera.

Models include:

The Yashica brand name has been sold several times.

Updated on 2024-04-03
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