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List of photographic equipment makers

List of photographic equipment makers is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of photographic equipment makers rather than just read about it. In short: This list of photographic equipment makers lists companies that manufacture (or license manufacture from other companies) equipment for photography. 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.

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Reference excerpt

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

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).

Manufacturers of cameras or lenses and filters ALPA Andor Technology Angenieux AXIOM (camera) Argus Arnold & Richter (see Arri) Arri Asahi (see Pentax) Bell & Howell Co. BelOMO Blackmagic Design Bolex Bron Elektronik B+W Filterfabrik (owned by Schneider Kreuznach). Cambo camera Canon Casio Century Precision Optics (owned by Schneider Kreuznach) Cokin Cooke Cosina Exakta Folmer and Schwing Fujifilm Fujinon (see Fujifilm) Gowland Hanimex Hartblei Hasselblad Holga Ikegami Ilford IMAX 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, makers of Zorki, Zenit, Horizon cameras, Zenitar lenses) 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 Miranda Camera Company 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, Rokinon, Walimex, Bower or Pro-Optic.) Seagull Camera Schneider Kreuznach Sigma Silvestri Sinar Soligor Sony Steinheil Sunpak Tamron (Second shareholder is Sony) Taylor, Taylor and Hobson (now known as Cooke) 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 Yongnuo Zeiss Zenit see KMZ Zorki see KMZ Zuiko see Olympus

Former producers of film cameras who now make digital cameras Kyocera as of 2005, only cellphone cameras Polaroid Ricoh Sanyo

Former producers of cameras or lenses and filters ADOX Agfa Ansco Atoms (Calypso underwater camera) Beauty (formerly Taiyodo Koki) Bermpohl (Berlin)Adolf Miethe Carl Braun Camera-Werk Bronica Chinon Industries Contax Corfield Ltd (Early British camera maker, created the Corfield Periflex) Coronet Camera Company Otto Berning Gmbh. (Made the Robot) Bell & Howell Chinon David White Company (Stereo Realist) DHW Fototechnik (see Rollei) Ducati FED Ferrania Franka Kamerawerk Graflex Honeywell Ihagee Ilford (still produces film and chemicals) J. Lancaster & Son Keystone (126 and 110 cameras with built-in flash, movie cameras) 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 35 mm 3D camera) Norita Okaya OPL Orion see Miranda Pentacon (Praktica) PerkinElmer Petri Founded 1907 as 'Kuribayashi Camera Works' Plaubel Rectaflex Rollei Robot See Otto Berning Steinheil Taiyodo Koki (which became the Beauty Camera Company) Tessina Thornton-Pickard Topcon (still manufactures optical instruments) Tokyo Optical see Topcon Tower (a house brand of Sears) VE-JA-DE Products, owned and founded by Vincent Joseph Dunker Vivitar Wollensak Wray Yashica Zeiss_Ikon Zenza see Bronica

List of camera accessory makers

Adorama Blackmagic Design Beseler Bowens Cactus Crumpler Domke Gary Fong Foba Gitzo Hama Hoya Leaf Lee Filters LPA Design Manfrotto Meopta Metz Micro Precision Products MPP (see Micro Precision Products) Panasonic Polaroid Profoto Sigma SLIK Sun Ray Photo Company Sunpak Tiffen Triggertrap Velbon Vivitar 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.

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Applications of List of photographic equipment makers

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In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of photographic equipment makers in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of photographic equipment makers is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Lists of consumer electronics manufacturers, Lists of photography topics, Photography equipment manufacturers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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