List of Film Camera Brands
Contents
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