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).

List of camera accessory makers

• Adorama
• Blackmagic Design
• Beseler
• Bowens
• Cactus
• Crumpler
• Domke
• Gary Fong
• Godox
• Foba
• Gitzo
• Hama
• Hoya
• Leaf
• Lee Filters
• LPA Design
• LumoPro
• Manfrotto
• MagnetMod (or MagMod)
• Meopta
• Metz
• Micro Precision Products
• MPP (see Micro Precision Products)
• Novoflex
• Neewer
• Panasonic
• Paul C. Buff
• Phottix
• Polaroid
• Profoto
• Sigma
• SLIK
• Sun Ray Photo Company
• Sunpak
• Tamrac
• Think Tank Photo
• Tiffen
• Triggertrap
• Velbon
• Vivitar
• 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.

List of darkroom equipment manufacturers

List of semiconductor sensor makers or designers

Sensor types CCD, CMOS, NMOS, PMOS

• Canon
• Dalsa (formerly part of Philips)
• Foveon
• Fujifilm, designers of the Super CCD
• Matsushita
• Nikon (designs, but as of 2006 does not yet fabricate)
• Sony
• Samsung Digital Imaging, part of Samsung Corporation
• Toshiba

See also

• Comparison of digital SLRs

References

External links

• Extended list of camera manufacturers at camerapedia
• Camera Manufacturing Companies Family Tree - clusters of interconnected companies (mergers, acquisitions, split-ups).