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digital camera A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile device ...

brand A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create an ...

s. Former and current brands are included in this list. With some of the brands, the name is licensed from another company, or acquired after the bankruptcy of an older photographic equipment company. The actual manufacture of a camera model is performed by a different company in many cases. In many cases brands are limited to certain countries. Not all brands of devices that can take digital images are listed here, including many industrial digital camera brands, some

webcam A webcam is a video camera which is designed to record or stream to a computer or computer network. They are primarily used in videotelephony, livestreaming and social media, and security. Webcams can be built-in computer hardware or peripheral d ...

brands, brands of cell phones that feature cameras, and brands of video cameras that can take digital stills. Defunct brands are listed separately.

Active consumer camera brands

, these brands offer some combination of

compact digital camera A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile device ...

bridge camera Bridge cameras are cameras that fill the niche between relatively simple point-and-shoot cameras and interchangeable-lens cameras such as mirrorless cameras and single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs). They are often comparable in size and weight ...

digital single-lens reflex camera A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor. The reflex design scheme is the primary difference between ...

s (DSLRs), and

mirrorless interchangeable lens camera A mirrorless camera is a photo camera featuring a single, removable lens and a digital display. The camera does not have a reflex mirror or optical viewfinder like a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera, but may have an electronic v ...

s (MILCs):

Other active brands

These brands offer only non-camera digital imaging devices, or non-consumer digital cameras: *

ABUS ABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG, commonly known as ABUS, is a German manufacturer of preventative security technology based in Wetter, North Rhine-Westphalia. Its name is an acronym of its original name, August Bremicker und Söhne ("August Bre ...

- cameras for surveillance and home security applications * AEE - action camcorders capable of taking stills * Aiptek - camcorders *

Alcatel Alcatel may refer to: * Alcatel, a former French telecommunications equipment company, which became Alcatel-Lucent and is now part of Nokia * Alcatel Mobile, a brand of mobile phones, tablets and wearables, formerly a joint venture between Alcatel ...

- cameraphones *

Alpa Alpa was formerly a Switzerland, Swiss camera design company and manufacturer of 135 film, 35 mm Single-lens reflex camera, SLR cameras. The current owners bought the company name after bankruptcy of the original company and the company exists ...

- medium format cameras designed for digital backs *

Apple An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...

- cameraphones, tablets and webcams; previously offered

QuickTake The Apple QuickTake (codenamed ''Venus'', ''Mars'', ''Neptune'') is one of the first consumer digital camera lines. It was launched in 1994 by Apple Computer and was marketed for three years before being discontinued in 1997. Three models of the ...

standalone camera * Arecont Vision - HDTV surveillance IP cameras and software *

Argus Argus is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word ''Argos''. It may refer to: Greek mythology * See Argus (Greek myth) for mythological characters named Argus **Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe **Argus (son of Ar ...

(licensed brand name of extinct company) * AV Future Link Sdn. Bhd. (AVF) -

s only *

Axis An axis (plural ''axes'') is an imaginary line around which an object rotates or is symmetrical. Axis may also refer to: Mathematics * Axis of rotation: see rotation around a fixed axis *Axis (mathematics), a designator for a Cartesian-coordinate ...

- network cameras / standalone

s only *

Better Light Better Light, Inc. was an American company that manufactured digital backs for large format film cameras. It was based in San Carlos, California. The Better Light scan back was a device designed to make it possible to capture digital photographs u ...

- digital scan backs *

BlackBerry The blackberry is an edible fruit produced by many species in the genus ''Rubus'' in the family Rosaceae, hybrids among these species within the subgenus ''Rubus'', and hybrids between the subgenera ''Rubus'' and ''Idaeobatus''. The taxonomy of ...

- cameraphones * BuckEye Cam - long range wireless camera systems * Bushnell - trail cameras * Brica *

Cambo Cambo may refer to: *Cambo, Northumberland, a village in Northumberland, England * Cambo camera, Dutch camera manufacturer *Cambo Estate, historic house in Fife, Scotland *Cambo-les-Bains, town in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France * Cambo oil field, ...

- large format cameras, architectural cameras and repro cameras designed for digital backs * Contour - wearable HD action cams for video and capable of taking stills * Covert - trail cameras * Creative -

s only; previously offered compact digital cameras * Cuddeback - trail cameras * Disk Digitais - professional cameras, semi-professional, plus a hundred in accessories *

D-Link D-Link Corporation is a Taiwanese multinational networking equipment manufacturing corporation headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It was founded in March 1986 in Taipei as ''Datex Systems Inc.'' History D-Link Corporation changed its name fr ...

- IP cameras *

EarthCam EarthCam, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States, provides webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam.com is a network of scenic webcams offering a complete searchable database of views of places ar ...

s only * Emprex * Fotoman - medium format cameras designed for digital backs *

GoPro GoPro, Inc. (marketed as GoPro and sometimes stylized as GoPRO) is an American technology company founded in 2002 by Nick Woodman. It manufactures action cameras and develops its own mobile apps and video-editing software. Founded as Woodman La ...

- action/helmet camcorder capable of taking stills *

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- ...

- medium-format cameras and

digital camera back A digital camera back is a device that attaches to the back of a camera in place of the traditional negative film holder and contains an electronic image sensor. This lets cameras that were designed to use film take digital photographs. These ...

s *

Hitachi () is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Ni ...

- camcorders capable of taking stills; previously offered compact digital cameras * Horseman - medium format cameras designed for digital backs *

HTC HTC Corporation ( zh, t=宏達國際電子股份有限公司, s=宏达国际电子股份有限公司, p=Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī, first=t) or High Tech Computer Corporation, (literally ''Hongda International Electron ...

- cameraphones, tablets *

Huawei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology corporation headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It designs, develops, produces and sells telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics and various smar ...

- cameraphones, tablets * Hunten - trail cameras * iPUX - IP cameras * IQinVision - IP cameras * Jaga - compact digital cameras *

Jenoptik Jenoptik AG is a Jena, Germany-based integrated photonics group. The company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and is included in the TecDAX stock index. History The group can trace its heritage back to the original Carl Zeiss AG comp ...

- industrial optical products; previously offered compact digital cameras *

JVC JVC (short for Japan Victor Company) is a Japanese brand owned by JVCKenwood corporation. Founded in 1927 as the Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan and later as , the company is best known for introducing Japan's first televisions and for ...

- camcorders capable of taking stills; previously offered compact digital cameras * Kaiser - scanning cameras * Ken-A-Vision - document cameras and digital microscopes offers a built-in 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, telecommuni ...

as of 2005, only

cameraphone A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture photographs and often record video using one or more built-in digital cameras. It can also send the resulting image wirelessly and conveniently. The first commercial phone with color ca ...

s; previously offered compact digital cameras *
KUROKESU
- Industrial cameras, USB webcameras *

Leaf A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, ste ...

s *

Lenovo Lenovo Group Limited, often shortened to Lenovo ( , ), is a Chinese Multinational corporation, multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, Personal computer, personal computers, ...

- cameraphones, tablets *

Leupold Leupold & Stevens, Inc. is an American manufacturer of telescopic sights, red dot sights, binoculars, rangefinders, spotting scopes, and eyewear located in Beaverton, Oregon, United States. The company, started in 1907, is on its fifth genera ...

- trail cameras * LG - IP cameras, cameraphones; previously offered compact digital 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 film cameras. Linhof initially focused on making camera shutters and developing the first leaf shu ...

- medium format cameras designed for digital backs * Livelook -

s only *

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, ...

s only * Lumenera - industrial, scientific, and astronomy 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 ...

- medium-format cameras which accept

s *

Mercury Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun * Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg * Mercury (mythology), a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to: Companies * Merc ...

- smartphones; previously offered compact digital cameras *

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

LifeCam The LifeCam is a lineup of webcams from Microsoft for PC users marketed since 2006. Various models and series of webcams are designed for either laptops or desktops. VX Series History The VX series of Microsoft LifeCam debuted on 13 June 200 ...

series *

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 ...

- toy and spy digital cameras, and compact digital cameras * Micro Innovations * Mobotix - IP cameras *

Motorola Motorola, Inc. () was an American Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent p ...

- cameraphones * Moultrie - trail cameras *

Mustek Systems Mustek Systems Inc. is a Taiwanese manufacturing company based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, established in October 1988. History. Retrieved 2010-07-23. Its brand name is Mustek (abbreviation for ''Most Unique Sensible Technology''). Mustek manufacturer ...

- camcorders capable of taking stills; previously offered compact digital cameras *

Nintendo is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...

Nintendo 3DS The is a handheld game console produced by Nintendo. It was announced in March 2010 and unveiled at E3 2010 as the successor to the Nintendo DS. The system features backward compatibility with Nintendo DS video games. As an eighth-generatio ...

- portable game console features three cameras *

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...

- cameraphones * Ocuview -

* Oncam Grandeye - IP cameras *

Oregon Scientific Oregon Scientific, Inc. is a manufacturer of electronic products including digital clocks, home weather stations, public alert monitors, fitness devices, toys, and globes, The firm was started in 1989 in Portland, Oregon, United States. In 1997, ...

- action/helmet camcorders; previously offered compact digital cameras *

Panoscan A rotating line camera is a digital camera that uses a linear CCD array to assemble a digital image as the camera rotates. The CCD array may consist of three sensor lines, one for each RGB color channel. Advanced rotating line cameras may have mul ...

- digital panoramic rotating line cameras *

Pantech Pantech Inc. ( ko, 주식회사 팬택) is a South Korean company that manufactures mobile phones. Established in 1991, its market is mainly domestic with partners in the United States, Japan, China, Europe and finally Vietnam. In 2012 Pantech wa ...

- cameraphones *

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 ...

- scanning cameras *

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 i ...

- cameraphones and

s; previously offered compact digital cameras *

Premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of governm ...

* Primos - trail cameras *

RCA The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Comp ...

- camcorders capable of taking stills; previously offered compact digital cameras * Reconyx - trail cameras * Rencay - digital scan backs *

Samyang Optics Samyang Optics is a South Korean manufacturer of camera lenses for several major brands of third-party mounts for still photography and video cameras. The company was founded in 1972 and has about 150 employees. Samyang exports to 58 countries t ...

- photographic lenses: autofocus lenses, manual focus lenses, DSLRs, cinema lenses (also under Xeen brand) * ScoutGuard - trail cameras * Sea & Sea - underwater housings for DSLRs and MILCs; previously offered compact digital cameras *

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 len ...

- compact cameras * Seitz - digital panorama cameras *

Sharp Sharp or SHARP may refer to: Acronyms * SHARP (helmet ratings) (Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme), a British motorcycle helmet safety rating scheme * Self Help Addiction Recovery Program, a charitable organisation founded in 199 ...

- cameraphones; previously offered camcorders capable of taking stills *

Silvestri Silvestri is a surname of Italian origin. Noted people with this last name include: * Alan Silvestri (born 1950), American composer * Alessandra Silvestri-Levy (born 1972), Italo-Brazilian curator, writer and humanitarian activist * Angelica di Si ...

- medium and large format cameras for traditional and digital photography. *

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 sens ...

- medium-format cameras and

s *

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 ...

* Spypoint - trail cameras * Suprema * Swann - IP cameras and trail cameras *

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 ...

- photographic lenses, optical components and commercial/industrial-use optics *

Trust Trust often refers to: * Trust (social science), confidence in or dependence on a person or quality It may also refer to: Business and law * Trust law, a body of law under which one person holds property for the benefit of another * Trust (bus ...

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 system ...

- camcorders capable of taking stills; previously offered compact digital cameras * Toyo-View - view cameras designed for digital backs * Uway - trail cameras * Wildgame - trail cameras and action cameras * JETE - Webcam * Advan - Smartphones

Defunct brands

These brands no longer produce digital imaging products: *

- compact digital camera * Acer - compact digital cameras * Autographer, OMG Life - wearable digital camera *

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 centuri ...

- one early digital camera *

Concord Concord may refer to: Meaning "agreement" * Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony) * Harmony, in music * Agreement (linguistics), a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of other ...

- compact digital cameras * Cool-iCam - compact digital cameras *

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 intercha ...

- produced one DSLR, several high quality SLR and galileian viewfinder models and two compact digital cameras * CyberPix * Gateway - compact digital cameras *

HP Photosmart Hewlett-Packard's line of digital cameras is called PhotoSmart The company also makes a line of consumer-based photo printers under the same branding. Digital cameras The original HP digital camera was an Intel Miniature card-based model simply ...

- compact digital cameras; left market in November 2007 * Imacon - digital camera backs; purchased by Hasselblad *

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

- produced one compact digital camera *

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 Mino ...

- compact digital cameras *

Konica Minolta is a Japanese multinational technology company headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with offices in 49 countries worldwide. The company manufactures business and industrial imaging products, including copiers, laser printers, multi-fu ...

- compact digital cameras and DSLRs; assets relating to digital imaging were transferred to Sony in 2006 * Largan - compact digital cameras * LG - compact digital cameras *

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 autofocu ...

- compact digital cameras and two unique DSLRs, acquired by Sony in early 21st century *

Maxell , commonly known as Maxell, is a Japanese company that manufactures consumer electronics. The company's name is a contraction of "Maximum capacity dry cell". Its main products are batteries, wireless charging products, storage devices, LCD/laser ...

- compact digital cameras *

Microtek Microtek International Inc. () is a Taiwan-based multinational manufacturer of digital imaging products and other consumer electronics. It produces imaging equipment for medical, biological and industrial fields. It occupies 20 percent of the glo ...

- compact digital cameras *

Game Boy Camera The Game Boy Camera (GBC), released as in Japan, is a Nintendo accessory for the handheld Game Boy game console. It was released on February 21, 1998, in Japan, and manufacturing was ceased in late 2002. As a toy for user-generated content, it ...

- no longer offers digital camera accessory * Nytech - compact digital cameras * Premo - made cameras in the 1800s. Bought out by Kodak in the early 1900s *

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

- compact digital cameras * SiPix - compact digital cameras * UMAX - compact digital cameras *

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 fo ...

- fixed-lens film cameras * Yakumo - compact digital cameras * Mnyaga - compact digital cameras

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Digital camera A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile device ...

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