Contents

List of Film Camera Brands

Manufacturers of cameras or lenses and filters

  • ALPA
  • Andor Technology
  • Angenieux
  • apertus°
  • Argus
  • Arnold & Richter (see Arri)
  • Arri
  • Asahi (see Pentax)
  • Bell & Howell Co.
  • BELOMO
  • Blackmagic Design
  • Bolex
  • Braun Nurnberg
  • Bron Elektronik
  • B+W Filterfabrik (owned by Schneider Kreuznach).
  • Cambo camera
  • Canham
  • Canon
  • Casio
  • Century Precision Optics (owned by Schneider Kreuznach)
  • Chamonix
  • Cokin
  • Cooke
  • Cosina
  • Deardorff
  • Ebony (large-format cameras
  • Escura
  • Exakta
  • Folmer and Schwing
  • Formatt Hitech
  • Fujifilm
  • Fujinon (see Fujifilm)
  • Gibellini
  • Gowland
  • Hartblei
  • Hasselblad
  • Heliopan
  • Holga
  • Ikegami
  • Ilford
  • Intrepid
  • IMAX
  • Kaiser Fototechnik
  • Kiev-Arsenal
  • Kino Precision (makers of Kiron and Vivitar Series 1 lenses)
  • Kenko (part of KenkoTokina Corporation)
  • Kodak
  • Kowa
  • Krasnogorsky Mekanicheski Zavod (also known as KMZ
  • Laowa see Venus Optics
  • Leica
  • Lensbaby
  • Linhof
  • Littmann
  • LOMO (Leningradskoye Optiko Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie)
  • Lytro (makers of consumer plenoptic cameras)
  • Mamiya (part of Phase One)
  • MegaVision
  • Meyer Optik Görlitz
  • Minolta
  • Minox
  • Mitakon Zhongyi see Zhong Yi Optics
  • Nikon
  • Noblex
  • Olympus
  • Panasonic
  • Panon (see Widelux)
  • Pentax
  • Phase One
  • Plaubel
  • Polaroid
  • Profoto
  • Ricoh
  • Rodenstock
  • Ross
  • Samsung
  • Samyang Optics (Samyang SLR lenses are also branded as Vivitar
  • Seagull Camera
  • Schneider Kreuznach
  • Shen Hao
  • Sigma
  • Silvestri
  • Sinar
  • Sirui
  • Soligor
  • Sony
  • Steinheil
  • Stenopeika
  • Sunpak
  • Tamron (Second shareholder is Sony)
  • Taylor
  • Tiffen
  • Tokina (part of KenkoTokina Corporation)
  • Toyo
  • Vageeswari
  • Venus Optics (brand: Laowa)
  • Vivitar
  • Voigtländer (name used under license; original company defunct)
  • Wratten see Tiffen (makes the products) and Kodak (owns the brand)
  • Walz
  • Wista
  • Wisner
  • Yongnuo
  • Y’s (large format camera maker in Japan)
  • Zeiss
  • Zenit see KMZ
  • Zhong Yi Optics
  • Zone VI
  • Zorki see KMZ
  • Zuiko see Olympus
  • Kyocera
  • Polaroid
  • Ricoh
  • Sanyo
  • ADOX
  • Agfa
  • Ansco
  • Atoms (Calypso underwater camera)
  • Beauty (formerly Taiyodo Koki)
  • Carl Braun Camera-Werk
  • Bronica
  • Burke & James (Rembrandt View Portrait Camera; 5x7 plate format)
  • Chinon Industries
  • Contax
  • Corfield Ltd (Early British camera maker
  • Coronet Camera Company
  • Otto Berning Gmbh. (Made the Robot)
  • Bell & Howell
  • Chinon
  • David White Company (Stereo Realist)
  • DHW Fototechnik (see Rollei)
  • Ducati
  • FED
  • Feinmess Dresden
  • Ferrania
  • Franka Kamerawerk
  • Graflex
  • Honeywell
  • Ihagee
  • Ilford (still produces film and chemicals)
  • J. Lancaster & Son
  • Keystone (126 and 110 cameras with built-in flash
  • Kiron Lenses
  • Konica
  • Konishiroku (see Konica Minolta)
  • Konica Minolta (as of 2006 may still manufacture on an OEM basis for Sony)
  • Leitz (formerly owned Leica)
  • Leidolf
  • Lord see Okaya
  • Meopta (still produces many optical products)
  • Minolta
  • Micro Precision Products
  • Miranda
  • MPP (see Micro Precision Products)
  • Nicca
  • Nimslo (4 lens 35mm 3D camera)
  • Norita
  • Okaya
  • OPL
  • Orion see Miranda
  • Pentacon (Praktica)
  • PerkinElmer
  • Petri Founded 1907 as ‘Kuribayashi Camera Works’
  • Rectaflex
  • Rollei
  • Robot See Otto Berning
  • Steinheil
  • Sunagor
  • Tessina
  • Thornton-Pickard
  • Topcon (still manufactures optical instruments)
  • Tokyo Optical see Topcon
  • Tower (a house brand of Sears)
  • VE-JA-DE Products
  • Vivitar
  • Wollensak
  • Wray
  • Yashica
  • Zenza see Bronica