List of photographic equipment makers

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

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[edit] 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, for example, which has made Webcams) 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 outsource 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 microscopes, telescopes, spotting scopes 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).

[edit] Current manufacturers of cameras and/or photographic lenses and filters

[edit] Former producers of film cameras who now exclusively make digital cameras

  • Kyocera (as of 2005, only photo production is cellphone cameras)
  • Redlake Laboratories
  • Ricoh
  • Sanyo

[edit] Former producers of cameras and/or photographic lenses and filters

[edit] List of camera accessory makers

[edit] List of film manufacturers

[edit] Current

  • Banse and Grohmann GmbH (unclear what they manufacture themselves, and what is repackaged. They use the brand name Wephota)
  • Efke (including the old ADOX formulas)
  • Foma (including Paterson brand)
  • Forte (including Classic Pan and Bergger brands)
  • Ferrania (including the Solaris brand)
  • Fujifilm
  • GigabitFilm (based on an Agfa microfilm)
  • Ilford Photo (went bankrupt in 2004, but reorganized and restarted production)
  • Kodak
  • Lucky
  • Maco (as of 2005 often packaged and marketed as Rollei brand film)
  • Polaroid
  • Svema
  • Tasma

[edit] Former

  • AgfaPhoto (bankrupt; remaining film stocks being liquidated. Former parent company, Agfa still exists)
  • Imation (formerly part of 3M), (sold x-ray business to Kodak, still film division now Ferrania makes other products)
  • Konica (merged with Minolta, exited film business in 2005)
  • ORWO (bankrupt 1995, Trademark sold to two different companies. Motion Picture stock now made by Filmtec, processing business sold to another firm.)
  • Sakura (see Konica)
  • Tura Film AG (bankrupt March 2005)

[edit] List of semiconductor sensor makers and/or designers

Sensor types CCD, CMOS, NMOS, PMOS

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