This list of photographic equipment makers lists companies that manufacture (or license manufacture from other companies) equipment for

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is emplo ...

Camera and lens manufacturers

Note that producers whose only presence in the photo industry at any time has been the manufacture of digital cameras (

Logitech Logitech International S.A. ( ; often shortened to Logi) is a Swiss multinational manufacturer of computer peripherals and software, with headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Newark, California. The company has offices throughout Europe ...

, for example, which has made

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s) are listed separately on the List of digital camera brands. There is not a very clear distinguishing line between camera producers and lens producers; many companies do both, or have done both at one time or another. Some camera manufacturers sell lenses made by others as their own, in an OEM arrangement. Some camera makers design lenses but

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manufacture. Some lens makers have cameras made to sell under their own brand name. A few companies are only in the lens business. Some camera companies make no lenses, but usually at least sell a lens from some lens maker with their cameras as part of a package. Note that many optical instruments such as

microscope A microscope () is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Microscopy is the science of investigating small objects and structures using a microscope. Microscopic means being invisi ...

telescope A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally meaning only an optical instrument using lenses, curved mirrors, or a combination of both to obse ...

spotting scope A spotting scope is a compact high-power telescope optimized for detailed observation of distant objects. They are used as portable optical enhancement devices for various outdoor activities such as birdwatching, skygazing and other naturali ...

s and so forth can be used as photographic lenses; manufacturers of these types of equipment are not included here (unless they also make more conventional photo gear).

Manufacturers of cameras or lenses and filters

ALPA Alpa was formerly a Swiss camera design company and manufacturer of 35 mm SLR cameras. The current owners bought the company name after bankruptcy of the original company and the company exists today as a designer and manufacturer of high-en ...

Andor Technology Andor Technology Ltd is a developer and manufacturer of high performance light measuring solutions (scientific digital cameras). It became a subsidiary of Oxford Instruments after it was purchased for £176 million in December 2013. The company i ...

* Angenieux * apertus° * Argus *Arnold & Richter (see

Arri The Arri Group () is a German manufacturer of motion picture film equipment. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1917. It produces professional motion picture cameras, lenses, lighting and post-production equipment. Hermann Simon ment ...

) *

*Asahi (see

Pentax is a brand name used primarily by the Japanese multinational imaging and electronics company Ricoh for DSLR cameras, lenses, sport optics (including binoculars and rifle scopes), and CCTV optics. The Pentax brand is also used by Hoya Corporatio ...

) * Bell & Howell Co. * BELOMO *

Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd. is an Australian digital cinema company and hardware manufacturer based in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It designs and manufactures broadcast and cinema hardware, most notably high-end digital-movie camer ...

Bolex Bolex International S. A. is a Swiss manufacturer of motion picture cameras based in Yverdon located in Canton of Vaud. The most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats. Originally Bol, the company was founded by C ...

*Braun Nurnberg *

Bron Elektronik Bron Elektronik is a manufacturer of Flash (photography), flash equipment for photography and videography. It is located in Allschwil in Switzerland. Bron manufactures the broncolor lines of strobes. The broncolor line includes studio lighting sys ...

*B+W Filterfabrik (owned by

Schneider Kreuznach Schneider Kreuznach () is the abbreviated name of the company Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, which is sometimes also simply referred to as Schneider. They are a manufacturer of industrial and photographic optics. The company was founded on ...

). *

Cambo camera {{primary sources, date=September 2010 Cambo BV is a manufacturer of high quality, mainly large format cameras based in Kampen, the Netherlands, and has the distinction of being the first studio camera manufacturer to produce an all-metal large f ...

* Canham *

Canon Canon or Canons may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as official in a fictional universe by its fan base * Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture ** Western ca ...

Casio is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. ...

Century Precision Optics Century Precision Optics is an American lens manufacturing firm. It was founded in 1948 in North Hollywood, California. Century Optics makes a variety of digital, broadcast, projection, and industrial lenses. They have offices in Hauppauge, New Yo ...

(owned by

) *

Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ( frp, Chamôni), more commonly known as Chamonix, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924. In 2019, it had ...

Cokin Cokin is a French manufacturer of optical filters for photography. The system allows filters such as rectangular graduated neutral density filters which are versatile in use. History Cokin are particularly noted for their "Creative Filter Syst ...

* Cooke *

Cosina is a manufacturer of high-end optical glass, optical precision equipment, cameras, video and electronic related equipment, based in Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. History Cosina is the successor to Nikō (or "Nikoh"), a company set up as ...

*Deardorff *

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(large-format cameras, folding and non-folding, ranging from 6x9cm to 20x24in) * Escura * Exacta * Folmer and Schwing * Formatt Hitech *

Fujifilm , trading as Fujifilm, or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the realms of photography, optics, office and medical electronics, biotechnology, and chemicals. The offerings from the ...

Fujinon Fujinon is a brand of optical lenses made by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd, now known as Fujifilm. Fujifilm's Fujinon lenses have been used by professional photographers and broadcast stations as well as cinematography. Fujifilm started manufacture ...

(see

) * Gibellini * Gowland *

Hartblei Hartblei is an international manufacturer of optical equipment for photography based in Kyiv and Munich. They are primarily known for producing tilt-shift lenses (Super-Rotator). In 2006 Hartblei started a collaboration with Carl Zeiss AG, ada ...

Hasselblad Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium format cameras, photographic equipment and image scanners based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company originally became known for its classic analog medium-format cameras that used a waist ...

* Heliopan *

Holga The Holga is a medium format 120 film camera, made in Hong Kong, known for its low-fidelity aesthetic. The Holga's low-cost construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks and other dis ...

* Ikegami * Ilford *Intrepid *

IMAX IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating. Graeme ...

*Kaiser Fototechnik * Kiev-Arsenal * Kino Precision (makers of Kiron and Vivitar Series 1 lenses) * Kenko (part of KenkoTokina Corporation) *

Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak ) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorpor ...

* Kowa * Krasnogorsky Mekanicheski Zavod (also known as KMZ, makers of

Zorki Zorki (russian: Зоркий, meaning sharp-sighted) is the name of a series of 35mm rangefinder cameras manufactured in the Soviet Union between 1948 and 1978. The Zorki was a product of the Krasnogorsk Mechanical Factory (KMZ), which also ...

, Zenit,

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cameras, Zenitar lenses) *Laowa see

Venus Optics Venus Optics (Anhui ChangGeng Optics Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese manufacturer of photographic lenses, specialized in the design of innovative macro, wide angle, shift and f/0.95 lenses. Headquarters and production are in Hefei, while s ...

* Leica *

Lensbaby Lensbaby is a line of camera lenses for DSLR and mirrorless cameras that combine a simple lens with a bellows or ball and socket mechanism for use in special-effect photography. A lensbaby can give effects normally associated with view cameras. ...

Linhof Linhof is a German company, founded in Munich in 1887 by Valentin Linhof. The company is well known for making premium rollfilm and large format Large format refers to any imaging format of or larger. Large format is larger than "medium ...

* Littmann *

LOMO LOMO (russian: Ленинградское Oптико-Mеханическое Oбъединение, Leningradskoye Optiko-Mekhanicheskoye Obyedinenie, Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association) is a manufacturer of medical and motion-picture lens ...

(Leningradskoye Optiko Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie) *

Lytro Lytro, Inc. was an American company founded in 2006 by Ren Ng which developed some of the first commercially available light-field cameras. Lytro began shipping its first generation pocket-sized camera, capable of refocusing images after being t ...

(makers of consumer plenoptic cameras) *

Mamiya is a Japanese company that manufactures high-end cameras and other related photographic and optical equipment. With headquarters in Tokyo, it has two manufacturing plants and a workforce of over 200 people. The company was founded in May 1940 b ...

(part of Phase One) * MegaVision * Meyer Optik Görlitz *

Minolta was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta Co., Ltd., which is also known simply as Minolta, was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It made the first integrated aut ...

Minox Minox (pronounced ) is a manufacturer of cameras, known especially for its subminiature camera. The first product to carry the Minox name was a subminiature camera, conceived in 1922, and finally invented and produced in 1936, by Baltic German ...

*Mitakon Zhongyi see Zhong Yi Optics *

Nikon (, ; ), also known just as Nikon, is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging products. The companies held by Nikon form the Nikon Group. Nikon's products include cameras, camera ...

Noblex The Noblex is a German made motor-driven swing-lens panoramic camera made by Kamera-Werkstätten. There are multiple models of this camera in multiple formats. Cameras with similar functions include the Widelux and Horizon The horizon is th ...

Olympus Olympus or Olympos ( grc, Ὄλυμπος, link=no) may refer to: Mountains In antiquity Greece * Mount Olympus in Thessaly, northern Greece, the home of the twelve gods of Olympus in Greek mythology * Mount Olympus (Lesvos), located in Le ...

Panasonic formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb ...

*Panon (see

Widelux The Widelux is a fully mechanical swing-lens panoramic camera first developed in Japan in 1958, by Panon Camera Shoko. There are both 35mm and medium-format models. Instead of a shutter, the camera has a slit that exposes the film as t ...

) *

* Phase One *

Plaubel Plaubel is a German camera maker, founded in November, 1902, by Hugo Schrader, who learned the technology of cameras and lenses as an apprentice at Voigtländer in Braunschweig in the late 1800s before being employed by a Frankfurt camera and lens ...

Polaroid Polaroid may refer to: * Polaroid Corporation, an American company known for its instant film and cameras * Polaroid camera, a brand of instant camera formerly produced by Polaroid Corporation * Polaroid film, instant film, and photographs * Polar ...

* Profoto *

Ricoh is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational imaging and electronics company (law), company. It was founded by the now-defunct commercial division of the Riken, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken) known as the ''Riken ...

* Rodenstock * Ross *

Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...

* Samyang Optics (Samyang SLR lenses are also branded as Vivitar, Rokinon, Walimex, Bower or Pro-Optic.) *

Seagull Camera Shanghai Seagull Camera Ltd is a Chinese camera maker located in Shanghai, China. Founded in 1958, Seagull is the oldest camera maker in China. The product line of Seagull includes TLR cameras, SLR cameras, folding cameras, CCD and SLR camera l ...

* Shen Hao *

Sigma Sigma (; uppercase Σ, lowercase σ, lowercase in word-final position ς; grc-gre, σίγμα) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 200. In general mathematics, uppercase Σ is used a ...

* Silvestri *

Sinar Sinar Photography AG is a Swiss company based in Zurich manufacturing specialized high-resolution view cameras for studio, reproduction, landscape and architecture photography. Sinar's view-cameras allow both the lens and the film back or sen ...

*Sirui *

Soligor Soligor was originally the trade mark for the American Allied Impex Corporation, used from 1956 for lenses and later cameras imported from Japan. It imported cameras from Japan and also took control of companies in Japan. Among the first product ...

Sony , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...

* Steinheil * Stenopeika * Sunpak *

Tamron is a Japanese company manufacturing photographic lenses, optical components and commercial/industrial-use optics. Tamron Headquarters is located in Saitama City in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan. The name of the company came from the surna ...

(Second shareholder is

) *Taylor, Taylor and Hobson (now known as Cooke) * Tiffen *

Tokina is a Japanese manufacturer of photographic lenses and CCTV security equipment. Lens designations * FX - Full frame * DX - cropped digital * AF - Auto-Focus * AT-X Pro - professional line (constant aperture zooms or primes) * AT-X - consumer lin ...

(part of KenkoTokina Corporation) * Toyo * Vageeswari *

(brand: Laowa) *

Vivitar Vivitar Corporation is a manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of photographic and optical equipment originally based in Santa Monica, California. Since 2008, the Vivitar name serves as Sakar International's house brand for digital imaging, o ...

Voigtländer Voigtländer () was a significant long-established company within the optics and photographic industry, headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, and today continues as a trademark for a range of photographic products. History Voigtländer was f ...

(name used under license; original company defunct) *Wratten see Tiffen (makes the products) and

(owns the brand) * Walz *Wista *Wisner * Yongnuo *Y's (large format camera maker in Japan) *

Zeiss Zeiss or Zeiß may refer to: People *Carl Zeiss (1816–1888), German optician and entrepreneur *Emil Zeiß (1833–1910), German Protestant minister and painter Companies *Carl Zeiss AG, German manufacturer of optics, industrial measurem ...

* Zenit see KMZ *Zhong Yi Optics *Zone VI *

see KMZ *Zuiko see

Former producers of film cameras who now make digital cameras

Kyocera is a Japanese multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. It manufactures industrial ceramics, solar power generating systems, telecommunic ...

as of 2005, only cellphone cameras *

Sanyo , stylized as SANYO, is a Japanese electronics company and formerly a member of the ''Fortune'' Global 500 whose headquarters was located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo had over 230 subsidiaries and affiliates, and was founded by ...

Former producers of cameras or lenses and filters

* ADOX * Agfa *

Ansco Ansco was the brand name of a photographic company based in Binghamton, New York, which produced photographic films, papers and cameras from the mid-19th century until the 1980s. In the late 1880s, ANSCO's predecessor, Anthony and Scovill, bo ...

*Atoms ( Calypso underwater camera) * Beauty (formerly Taiyodo Koki) *

Carl Braun Camera-Werk Carl Braun Camera-Werk of Nuremberg, Germany, or Braun, as it was more commonly called, was founded as an optical production house. It is best known for its 35mm film cameras named Paxette, and for slide projectors named Paximat. History The com ...

Bronica Bronica also Zenza Bronica (in Japanese: ) was a Japanese manufacturer of classic medium-format roll film cameras and photographic equipment based in Tokyo, Japan. Their single-lens reflex (SLR) system-cameras competed with Pentax, Hasselblad, ...

Chinon Industries was a Japanese camera manufacturer. Kodak took a majority stake in the company in 1997, and made it a fully owned subsidiary of Kodak Japan, , in 2004 . As a subsidiary, it continues to develop digital camera models. They manufactured several ...

Contax Contax (stylised as CONTAX in the Kyocera era) began as a German camera model in the Zeiss Ikon line in 1932, and later became a brand name. The early cameras were among the finest in the world, typically featuring high quality Zeiss interchan ...

* Corfield Ltd (Early British camera maker, created the Corfield Periflex) * Coronet Camera Company * Otto Berning Gmbh. (Made the

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) *

Bell & Howell Bell and Howell LLC is a U.S.-based services organization and former manufacturer of cameras, lenses, and motion picture machinery, founded in 1907 by two projectionists, and originally headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois. The company is now ...

Chinon Chinon () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire, France. The traditional province around Chinon, Touraine, became a favorite resort of French kings and their nobles beginning in the late 15th and early 16th centurie ...

*David White Company ( Stereo Realist) * DHW Fototechnik (see

Rollei Rollei () was a German manufacturer of optical instruments founded in 1920 by and in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and maker of the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord series of cameras. Later products included specialty and nostalgic type films for the ...

) *

Ducati Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. () is the motorcycle-manufacturing division of Italian company Ducati, headquartered in Bologna, Italy. The company is directly owned by Italian automotive manufacturer Lamborghini, whose German parent company is Au ...

* FED * Feinmess Dresden * Ferrania * Franka Kamerawerk *

Graflex Graflex was a manufacturer that gave its brand name to several models of camera. The company was founded as the ''Folmer and Schwing Manufacturing Company'' in New York City in 1887 by William F. Folmer and William E. Schwing as a metal working ...

Honeywell Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance ma ...

Ihagee Ihagee was a camera manufacturer based in Dresden, Germany. Its best-known product was the Exakta single-lens reflex camera. History Johan Steenbergen, a Dutchman, founded a camera company called ''Industrie- und Handelsgesellschaft'' in Dres ...

* Ilford (still produces film and chemicals) * J. Lancaster & Son * Keystone (126 and 110 cameras with built-in flash, movie cameras) *

Kiron Lenses Kiron Lenses were photographic lenses distributed by the Kiron Corporation, formerly based in Carson, California, United States. History The company was set up as a U.S. subsidiary of Kino Precision Industries Limited, Tokyo, Japan and registered ...

Konica was a Japanese manufacturer of, among other products, film, film cameras, camera accessories, photographic and photo-processing equipment, photocopiers, fax machines and laser printers, founded in 1873. The company merged with Japanese peer M ...

*Konishiroku (see

Konica Minolta is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with offices in 49 countries worldwide. The company manufactures business and industrial imaging products, in ...

) *

(as of 2006 may still manufacture on an OEM basis for Sony) *

Leitz Leitz may refer to several German companies: *Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG, founded by Louis Leitz in 1896, a German manufacturer of office products **Louis Leitz (1846–1918), German inventor and founder of Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG * Leitz GmbH & ...

(formerly owned Leica) * Leidolf *Lord see Okaya *

Meopta Meopta - optika, s.r.o. is a Czech Republic based company that manufactures various products mainly in the field of optics. The company was once well-known for its still and movie cameras, although it no longer manufactures such products. Histo ...

(still produces many optical products) *

Micro Precision Products Micro Precision Products Ltd (MPP) was a British optical company that between 1941 and 1982 produced cameras and related equipment. (From 1976, its name was MPP Photographic Products Ltd.) MPP was formed in 1941 to sell equipment produced by Celes ...

* Miranda *MPP (see

) *

Nicca The Nicca Camera Co. Ltd. started as the optical workshop Kōgaku Seiki Co. in 1940, founded by former employees of Canon. Its first camera, the Nippon, a close copy of the Leica rangefinder camera, was produced in 1942. In 1948, the company cha ...

* Nimslo (4 lens 35mm 3D camera) * Norita * Okaya * OPL *Orion see Miranda *

Pentacon Pentacon is the company name of a camera manufacturer in Dresden, Germany. The name Pentacon is derived from the brand Contax of Zeiss Ikon Kamerawerke in Dresden and Pentagon, as a Pentaprism for Single-Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras was for ...

( Praktica) *

PerkinElmer PerkinElmer, Inc., previously styled Perkin-Elmer, is an American global corporation focused in the business areas of diagnostics, life science research, food, environmental and industrial testing. Its capabilities include detection, imaging, in ...

* Petri Founded 1907 as 'Kuribayashi Camera Works' *

Rectaflex Rectaflex was the world's first series produced Pentaprism single lens reflex camera. It was produced from 1948 to 1958. Rectaflex was the only Italian single-lens reflex camera ever built. There has been some uncertainty about the Rectaflex being ...

See Otto Berning * Steinheil *Sunagor * Tessina *

Thornton-Pickard Thornton-Pickard was a British camera manufacturer established in 1888 and closed in 1939. The company was based in Altrincham, near Manchester, and was an early pioneer in the development of the camera industry. The Thornton-Pickard company w ...

* Topcon (still manufactures optical instruments) *Tokyo Optical see Topcon *Tower (a

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Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

) * VE-JA-DE Products, owned and founded by Vincent Joseph Dunker *

Wollensak Wollensak Optical was an American manufacturer of audio-visual products located in Rochester, New York. At the height of their popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, many brands of movie cameras came with a Wollensak Velostigmat lens. Wollensak reel- ...

* Wray *

Yashica Yashica was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, originally active from 1949 until 2005 when its then-owner, Kyocera, ceased production. In 2008, the Yashica name reappeared on cameras produced by the Hong Kong-based MF Jebsen Group. In 2015, t ...

*Zenza see

List of camera accessory makers

* Adorama * Blackmagic Design * Beseler * Bowens *

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Crumpler Crumpler is an Australian bag brand and manufacturer with two separately held companies who design and supply different products to their respective markets. The company's Pacific headquarterers are in Melbourne, Australia, while its European ...

* Domke * Gary Fong *Godox *

Foba FOBA AG is a Swiss company that makes photographic studio equipment. History In 1939, just after World War II started in Europe, imports of photography products such as lights and dry presses from Germany was reduced to a trickle. Walter Fr ...

Gitzo Gitzo S.A. is a manufacturer of photographic accessories, including bags, but specialising in tripods and supports. History Gitzo was founded in France by Arsène Gitzhoven in 1917, initially producing wooden and metal cassette filmbacks, and late ...

Hama Hama ( ar, حَمَاة ', ; syr, ܚܡܬ, ħ(ə)mɑθ, lit=fortress; Biblical Hebrew: ''Ḥamāṯ'') is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria. It is located north of Damascus and north of Homs. It is the provincial ...

* Hoya *

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Lee Filters Lee Filters is a manufacturer of colour filters and colour gels for the entertainment lighting, film and photography industries. Their colour gels for stage lighting are the industry standard in Europe while competing with other brands such as Ros ...

* LPA Design *LumoPro *

Manfrotto Manfrotto is an Italian brand of camera and lighting supports, including tripods, monopods, and other accessories, that is manufactured by Lino Manfrotto + Co. Spa, a company headquartered in Cassola, Italy. The brand is wholly-owned by Videndum ...

*MagnetMod (or MagMod) *

Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand ...

*MPP (see

) *Novoflex *Neewer *

*Paul C. Buff * Phottix *

* Profoto *

SLIK Slik were a Scottish pop group of the mid-1970s, most notable for their UK number 1 hit " Forever and Ever" in 1976. Initially glam rock, the band later changed their style to soft rock/bubblegum. It was the first band with whom singer and gu ...

Sun Ray Photo Company Sun Ray Photo Company was a 1940s and 1950s business which was located at 301 Lafayette Street The firm specialized in manufacturing low priced photographic enlargers. Product specifications Sun Ray Photo Company made photographers' equipment ...

* Sunpak * Tamrac * Think Tank Photo * Tiffen *

Triggertrap Triggertrap was a company that created hardware and software products centred on triggering SLR cameras. Products included several Arduino-based camera triggers, along with mobile apps which interfaced with cameras using a device that plugs into ...

* Velbon *

*Westcott * Yongnuo

List of photographic film, paper & chemistry brands and manufacturers

Note films, paper and chemicals may be sold by a manufacturer who has produced the product under their own brand or alternatively under a brand name owned by one party, with manufacture and packaging of the product outsourced to third parties as well as many permutations of these options. Therefore, this list includes both brands and manufacturers with information (where known) on their current capability.

Current

* ADOX (Germany) Brand of B&W & Colour films, papers and chemistry. (Film 3rd party commissioned and Agfa-gevaert material) Film conversion capability. Resurrecting an Agfa Coater and access to former Ilford Imaging (Marly, Switzerland) coater. *

Agfa-Gevaert Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Agfa) is a Belgian-German multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products, software, and systems. It has three divisions: * Agfa Graphics, which offers integrated pr ...

(Belgium) Manufacturer of B&W Aerofilms & Microfilms. Business to business. *

AgfaPhoto AgfaPhoto GmbH is a European photographic company, formed in 2004 when Agfa-Gevaert sold their Consumer Imaging division. Agfa (the former parent company, which merged with film manufacturer Gevaert in 1964) had for many years been well know ...

Holdings GMBH (Germany) Brand of B&W films. (Manufacture by Harman Technology) * Bellini (Italy) Manufacture of photographic chemicals * Bergger (France) Brand of B&W film (Manufacture by Inoviscoat) . * Calbe Chemie (Germany) Manufacture of photographic chemicals (formerly part of Agfa Wolfen/ORWO) * Carestream (USA) Manufacture of Kodak RA4 papers. (Formerly part of Kodak). * Champion (Malaysia) Manufacture of photographic chemicals * Compard (Germany) Manufacture/packing of photographic chemicals (ex Agfa products formerly supplied by Agfa chemical plant in Vaihingen-Enzs closed 2015) * Cinestill (USA) Converting/packing Kodak Motion Picture film without Remjet layer. * FILM Ferrania (Italy) Small scale manufacturer of B&W film * Film Washi (France) Handcrafted B&W film. *

Foma Bohemia Foma Bohemia spol. s.r.o is a photographic company based in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic established in 1921, originally as Fotochema, being renamed in 1995 on privatisation. They are mostly known for their line of black and white films ...

(Czech Republic) Manufacture of B&W films, X-Ray and Industrial films & contract manufacture. B&W photographic chemicals and papers * Fotospeed (UK) Brand of photographic chemicals and papers *

(Japan) Manufacture of Black and white and color film,

instant film Instant film is a type of photographic film that was introduced by Polaroid Corporation to produce a visible image within minutes or seconds of the photograph's exposure. The film contains the chemicals needed for developing and fixing the photog ...

, Microfilms & RA4 paper. Fuji Hunt subsidiary producing color photographic chemicals. * Harman Technology (UK) Manufacturer of B&W films & photographic papers under ILFORD and Kentmere Brands. Also contract manufacture. B&W chemicals (produced by Tetenal) * Inoviscoat (Germany) Manufactures film components for other brands, including Impossible Project, ADOX) Business to business, now part of ORWO. * Island Polymer Industries, Triacetate Cellulose (TAC) film production using former ORWO Wolfen facility, largest cast film manufacturer in Europe. *Kentmere (UK) Brand of B&W film and papers - see Harman Technology *

(USA) Manufacture of B&W & Color film including Cine films. *

Kodak Alaris Kodak Alaris is a British manufacturer and marketer of traditional photographic supplies (including film, paper, and processing chemicals), hardware and software for digital imaging and information management, and retail printing kiosks. The com ...

(UK) Distribution and marketing of Kodak still products and B&W Photographic chemicals. (RA4 Paper and color chemicals business sold to Sinopromise in 2020). * Kono! (Austria) B&W and 'Creative' pre exposed color films.(using 3rd party stock) *

Lomography A toy camera is a simple, inexpensive film camera. Despite the name, toy cameras are fully functional and capable of taking photographs, though with optical aberrations due to the limitations of their simple lenses. From the 1990s onward, ther ...

(Austria) Brand. B&W & Color films. (Manufacture by Kodak (Color negative) & Foma (B&W) & Inoviscoat (special colors/Kino films) * Moersch (Germany) Photographic chemicals * Oriental (Japan) Brand. B&W film (Manufacture by Harman Technology) *

ORWO ORWO (for ''ORiginal WOlfen'') is a brand of black and white film products, made in Germany. ORWO was established in East Germany in 1964 as a brand for photographic film and magnetic tape, mainly produced at the former ''ORWO Filmfabrik Wolf ...

(Germany) Brand of Filmotec. B&W cinefilms. Now merged with Inoviscoat under ORWO brand. *

Polaroid B.V. Polaroid B.V. (trading as Polaroid) is a Dutch photography company that manufactures instant film for its original cameras as well as for select Polaroid Corporation instant cameras. Polaroid B.V. was founded in 2008 as The Impossible Project ...

(Netherlands) (was Impossible Project, then Polaroid Originals) Manufacturer of B&W and color

. * Rera (Japan) Conversion of B&W and color reversal film for 127 cameras (using 3rd party stock) * Revelog (Austria) Creative (pre-exposed) color films. (using 3rd party stock) *

(Germany) Brand of

Maco Photo Products Maco (Hans O. Mahn GmbH & Co. KG, Maco Photo Products) is a Germany-based supplier of photographic films, including former Agfa film types. They also make 127 film. Most of their films are now sold under the Rollei label, a brand licensed from RC ...

B&W and Color film. (Manufactured by Agfa-Gevaert and Harman Technology). B&W/Color photographic chemicals * Shanghai (China) Manufacturer of B&W film, re-packaged ORWO cinefilms * Silberra (Russia) Brand of B&W films (Converting/packing Agfa-Gevaert B&W aerofilms) * Sinopromise (China) Kodak Flexicolor Chemistry and conversion/packing of Kodak RA4 paper. (Coated by Carestream) * Slavich (Russia) Manufacture of B&W photographic paper; Micron Division, photographic plates and films. * SPUR (Germany) Manufacture of photographic chemicals * Svema (Ukraine) Brand of Astrum Holdings. Converting/packing 3rd party B&W & Color aerofilms *

Tasma Tasma (Russian: ''Тасма'') is a Russian GOST and ISO certified manufacturer of black-and-white and colour photographic films. It also manufactures adhesive tape and demineralized water. Located in Kazan, Russia, it has been in operation sinc ...

(Russia) Manufacturer of Aerofilms. Business to business only. * Tetenal (Germany) Manufacture/packing of photographic chemicals under own brand and for Ilford & Kodak. Receivership in 2018. * Yodica (Italy) Creative (pre-exposed) color films. (using 3rd party stock)

Former

GMBH (Leverkusen, Germany) Major producer of B&W and color negative and reversal films, papers and chemicals. Spun off from Agfa-Gevaert in 2004. Production ended 2005. Now a brand under Agfaphoto Holdings GMBH. * Lucky Film (China) Manufacture of B&W & Color films. Ceased photographic film production in 2012 (Color) 2018 (B&W). *

Efke Efke is the brand name of photographic films, papers, and chemicals that were manufactured by ''Fotokemika Zagreb d.d.'', a company located in Samobor, Croatia. Products description The Efke films are black-and-white films with high silver co ...

(Yugoslavia/Croatia) Manufacture of B&W films (the old ADOX formulas) and IR film. Closed 2012. * ERA (China) Manufacture of B&W film. 80% holding acquired by Kodak China in 1998. Closed 2008 * Ferrania (Italy) Major producer of B&W film, cine film, color negative and reversal white label films and own Solaris brand. Closed 2012, Formerly owned by 3M and spun out into Imation. Sold x-ray business to Kodak. See FILM Ferrania. * Forte (Hungary) Manufacture of B&W film. Closed 2007 * Fuda (China) Manufacture of B&W and Color film. Closed *

Hindustan Photo Films Hindustan Photo Films Manufacturing Company Limited (HPF) was an Indian-based public sector manufacturer of photographic films, cine films, X-ray films, graphic arts films, photographic paper, and chemistry. It was incorporated in 1960 It is based ...

(India) * Ilford Imaging (Switzerland) Ilfochrome/Cibachrome. Sold in 2005, plant closed 2013. See ADOX. * Ilford Imaging (UK) B&W film. Receivership 2004. Rescued in management buy out. See Harman Technology. * Kentmere (UK) B&W Papers. Acquired by Harman Technology 2007. Plant in Kentmere, Cumbria closed. *

(Japan) Major color film producer including white label brands, merged with

, Closed film business in 2006. * Negra (Spain) Manufacture of B&W film. Closed 1984 *

(Germany) (bankrupt 1995, Trademark sold to two different companies. Motion Picture stock now made by Filmotec, processing business sold to another firm.) See ORWO. * Perutz-Photowerke (founded in 1880 by

Otto Perutz Otto Perutz (27 July 1847, Teplice, Bohemia – 18 January 1922, Munich Germany) was an Austrian-German chemist. From 1872 to 1876, Perutz was director of ''Bayerische Aktiengesellschaft für chemische und landwirtschaftlich-chemische Fabrika ...

, since 1964 owned by Agfa, closed down in 1994) *

(USA) Bankrupt 2001 & 2008. See Polaroid B.V. *Revue (a label owned by PhotoQelle, a subsidiary of Quelle, known as

Arcandor Arcandor AG was a holding company located in Essen, Germany, that oversaw a number of companies operating in the businesses of mail order and internet shopping, department stores and tourism services. It was formed in 1999 by the merger of K ...

today; several sources claim that ''Revue'' films were actually repackaged stock leftover of other companies, first Fuji/3M, later Agfa) * Svema (Ukraine) Major soviet manufacturer of B&W, Colour negative and reversal film. Ceased production of film in 2000. Now a brand owned by Astrum. * Valca (Spain), Manufacture of B&W & X-ray film, from 1940 to 1993.

List of darkroom equipment manufacturers

Current

* AP Photo Industries (Spain) Darkroom equipment, film cartridges and cartridge loading equipment, disposable cameras * Beseler (USA) Photographic enlargers * De Vere (UK) Digital enlargers. Previous manufacturer of quality analog photographic enlargers. * Dunco () Photographic enlargers * Jobo (US) Film/Photo processors *

(Japan) Frontier minlabs * Kaiser (Germany) Photographic enlargers and easels * Kienzle(Germany) Photographic enlargers * LPL (Japan) Photographic enlargers and easels *

Noritsu Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd. is a holding company with subsidiaries engaged in the development and sales of audio equipment, the manufacture and sales of pen-nib components, and healthcare for medical data analysis and research. Overview Founded as ...

(Japan) dry/wet minlabs * Nova darkroom (UK) Film/Photo process equipment * Omega (USA) Photographic enlargers * Paterson (UK) Photo processing equipmenthttp://www.patersonphotographic.com/ * SDS (UK) Manufacture of RH Designs exposure meters

Former

* Agfa (Germany) Photographic enlargers, minilabs * Durst (Italy) Photographic enlargers and related products, ceased production in 2007. Now produces inkjet printers *Meopta (Czech Republic/US) Ceased Photographic enlarger production 2006. *Leitz (Germany) Focomat photographic enlargers *

(Japan) Minlabs, photographic enlargers, film scanners. Exited photo business in 2006. *Phototherm (USA) Sidekick photo processors. Ceased production/support 2018. *Photon Beard (UK) Easels. Main specialism lighting.

List of semiconductor sensor makers or designers

Sensor types CCD,

CMOS Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS, pronounced "sea-moss", ) is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) fabrication process that uses complementary and symmetrical pairs of p-type and n-type MOSF ...

, NMOS, PMOS *

Dalsa Teledyne DALSA (formerly DALSA Corporation) is a Canadian company specializing in the design and manufacture of specialized electronic imaging components (image sensors, cameras, frame grabbers, imaging software) as well as specialized semiconduc ...

(formerly part of

Philips Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters is ...

) * Foveon *

, designers of the

Super CCD Super CCD is a proprietary charge-coupled device that has been developed by Fujifilm since 1999. The Super CCD uses octagonal, rather than rectangular, pixels. This allows a higher horizontal and vertical resolution (at the expense of diagonal res ...

* Matsushita *

(designs, but as of 2006 does not yet fabricate) *

* Samsung Digital Imaging, part of

Samsung Corporation The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ' ...

Toshiba , commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, ...

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List of semiconductor sensor makers or designers

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