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digital camera A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in Digital data storage, digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film or film stock. Dig ...
brands. 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, video telephony, live streaming and social media, and Closed-circuit television, security. Webcams can b ...
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 cameras, bridge camera,
digital single-lens reflex camera A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the sensor. The reflex des ...
s (DSLRs), and
mirrorless interchangeable lens camera A mirrorless camera (sometimes referred to as a mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera (MILC) or digital single-lens mirrorless (DSLM)) is a digital camera which, in contrast to DSLRs, does not use a mirror in order to ensure that the image ...
s (MILCs):


Other active brands

These brands offer only non-camera digital imaging devices, or non-consumer digital cameras: * ABUS - cameras for surveillance and home security applications * AEE - action camcorders capable of taking stills * Aiptek - camcorders * Alcatel - cameraphones * Alpa - medium format cameras designed for digital backs *
Apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...
- cameraphones, tablets and webcams; previously offered QuickTake standalone camera * Arecont Vision - HDTV surveillance IP cameras and software * Argus (licensed brand name of extinct company) *
Arri Arri Group () (stylized as "ARRI") 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. It ...
- Professional Cinema cameras * AV Future Link Sdn. Bhd. (AVF) -
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, video telephony, live streaming and social media, and Closed-circuit television, security. Webcams can b ...
s only *
Axis An axis (: axes) may refer to: Mathematics *A specific line (often a directed line) that plays an important role in some contexts. In particular: ** Coordinate axis of a coordinate system *** ''x''-axis, ''y''-axis, ''z''-axis, common names ...
- network cameras / standalone
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, video telephony, live streaming and social media, and Closed-circuit television, security. Webcams can b ...
s only * Better Light - digital scan backs *
BlackBerry BlackBerry is a discontinued brand of handheld devices and related mobile services, originally developed and maintained by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM, later known as BlackBerry Limited) until 2016. The first BlackBerry device ...
- cameraphones * BuckEye Cam - long range wireless camera systems * Bushnell - trail cameras * Brica * Cambo - 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 -
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, video telephony, live streaming and social media, and Closed-circuit television, security. Webcams can b ...
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 Systems, Inc. (formerly Datex Systems, Inc.) is a Taiwanese multinational manufacturer of networking hardware and telecoms equipments. It was founded in 1986 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. History Datex Systems was founded i ...
- IP cameras * EarthCam -
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, video telephony, live streaming and social media, and Closed-circuit television, security. Webcams can b ...
s only * Emprex * Freefly - High speed cameras and drones * 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, video-editing software ...
- action/helmet camcorder capable of taking stills * Horseman - medium format cameras designed for digital backs.It is marketed by Kenko Professional Imaging (KPI) Inc. *
HTC HTC Corporation ( zh, t=宏達國際電子股份有限公司, p=Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī, first=t), or High Tech Computer Corporation (abbreviated and trading as HTC), is a Taiwanese consumer electronics corporatio ...
- cameraphones, tablets *
Huawei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei" sometimes stylized as "HUAWEI"; ; zh, c=华为, p= ) is a Chinese multinational corporationtechnology company in Longgang, Shenzhen, Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong. Its main product lines include teleco ...
- cameraphones, tablets * Hunten - trail cameras * iPUX - IP cameras * IQinVision - IP cameras * iX Cameras - High speed camera manufacturer * Jaga - compact digital cameras * Jenoptik - industrial optical products; previously offered compact digital cameras * JVC - 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 *
KUROKESU
- Industrial cameras, USB webcameras *
Leaf A leaf (: leaves) is a principal appendage of the plant stem, stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leav ...
- digital camera backs *
Lenovo Lenovo Group Limited, trading as Lenovo ( , zh, c=联想, p=Liánxiǎng), is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, servers, conv ...
- cameraphones, tablets * Leupold - trail cameras * LG - IP cameras, cameraphones; previously offered compact digital cameras * Linhof - medium format cameras designed for digital backs * Livelook -
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, video telephony, live streaming and social media, and Closed-circuit television, security. Webcams can b ...
s only * Logitech -
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, video telephony, live streaming and social media, and Closed-circuit television, security. Webcams can b ...
s only * Lumenera - industrial, scientific, and astronomy cameras * Mercury - smartphones; previously offered compact digital cameras *
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...
- LifeCam 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 produced in 1936, by Baltic German Walter Zapp ...
- toy and spy digital cameras, and compact digital cameras * Micro Innovations * Mobotix - IP cameras *
Motorola Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It was founded by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin in 1928 and had been named Motorola since 1947. Many of Motorola's products had been ...
- cameraphones * Moultrie - trail cameras * Mustek Systems - camcorders capable of taking stills; previously offered compact digital cameras *
Nokia Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1 ...
- cameraphones * Ocuview -
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, video telephony, live streaming and social media, and Closed-circuit television, security. Webcams can b ...
* Oncam Grandeye - IP cameras * Oregon Scientific - action/helmet camcorders; previously offered compact digital cameras * Panoscan - digital panoramic rotating line cameras * Pantech - cameraphones * Pentacon - scanning cameras *
Philips Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), simply branded Philips, is a Dutch multinational health technology company that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, its world headquarters have been situated in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarter ...
- cameraphones and
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, video telephony, live streaming and social media, and Closed-circuit television, security. Webcams can b ...
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 govern ...
* Primos - trail cameras *
RCA RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. It was initially a patent pool, patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Westinghou ...
- camcorders capable of taking stills; previously offered compact digital cameras * Reconyx - trail cameras *
RED Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–750 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a seconda ...
- Digital cinema cameras * Rencay - digital scan backs *
Samyang Optics Samyang Optics is a South Korean manufacturer of camera lenses for several major brands of third-party Lens mount, mounts for still photography and video cameras. The company was founded in 1972 and has about 150 employees. Samyang exports to 58 ...
- 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 twin-lens reflex camera, TLR cameras, single-lens reflex came ...
- compact cameras * Seitz - digital panorama cameras * Sharp - cameraphones; previously offered camcorders capable of taking stills * Silvestri - medium and large format cameras for traditional and digital photography. * Sinar - medium-format cameras and digital camera backs * Soligor * Spypoint - trail cameras * Suprema * Swann - IP cameras and trail cameras * Trust *
Toshiba is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors ...
- camcorders capable of taking stills; previously offered compact digital cameras * Uway - trail cameras *
Vision Research ''Vision Research'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal specializing in the neuroscience and psychology of the visual system The visual system is the physiological basis of visual perception (the ability to perception, detect and process ...
- High speed digital cameras, Marketed under the " Phantom" brand. *
Wista The WISTA Science and Technology Park in Berlin-Adlershof was founded in 1991 after the dissolution of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic at the same place. Today it covers an area of making it the largest science park ...
- view cameras designed for digital backs. * Wildgame - trail cameras and action cameras * JETE - Webcam * Advan - Smartphones * Zenit - Announced that it was resuming camera and lens production for the M-mount, as well as for unspecified Nikon and Canon mounts in 2019 * Bosma - Digital cinema cameras


Defunct brands

These brands no longer produce digital imaging products: *
Apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...
- compact digital camera * Acer - compact digital cameras * Autographer, OMG Life - wearable digital camera *
Chinon Chinon () is a Communes of France, commune in the Indre-et-Loire Departments of France, department, Centre-Val de Loire, France. The traditional province around Chinon, Touraine, became a favorite resort of French kings and their nobles beginn ...
- one early digital camera *
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. It ...
- Exilim compact digital cameras * Concord - compact digital cameras * Cool-iCam - compact digital cameras *
Contax Contax (stylised as CONTAX in the Yashica/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 Carl Zeis ...
- produced one DSLR, several high quality SLR and galileian viewfinder models and two compact digital cameras * CyberPix *
Epson Seiko Epson Corporation, commonly known as Epson, is a Japanese multinational electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of printers and information- and imaging-related equipment. Headquartered in Suwa, Nagano, Japan, t ...
- Japan-only digital rangefinder camera; previously offered compact digital cameras * Gateway - compact digital cameras *
Hitachi () is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company is active in various industries, including digital systems, power and renewable ener ...
- camcorders capable of taking stills; previously offered compact digital cameras * HP Photosmart - 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, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...
- 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 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 ...
- compact digital cameras and DSLRs; assets relating to digital imaging were transferred to Sony in 2006 *
Kyocera is a Japanese Multinational corporation, 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 genera ...
- as of 2005, only cameraphones; previously offered compact digital cameras * Largan - compact digital cameras * LG - compact digital cameras *
Minolta was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, lenses, 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 ...
- compact digital cameras and two unique DSLRs, acquired by Sony in early 21st century * Mamiya - medium-format cameras which accept digital camera backs *
Maxell , commonly known as Maxell, is a Japanese company (law), company that manufactures consumer electronics. The company's name is a contraction of "Maximum capacity dry cell". Its main products are Battery (electricity), batteries, wireless chargi ...
- 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 gl ...
- compact digital cameras *
Nintendo is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles. The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi ...
- Game Boy Camera - 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 is a former Japanese electronics manufacturer founded in 1947 by Toshio Iue, the brother-in-law of Kōnosuke Matsushita, the founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial, now known as Panasonic. Iue left Matsushita Electric to start his own bu ...
- 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 * Toyo-View - view cameras designed for digital backs.(Sakai Machine Tool Co., Ltd.)


See also

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List of photographic equipment makers 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 ...
* Comparison of digital SLRs *
Camera A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. As a pivotal technology in the fields of photograp ...
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Digital single-lens reflex camera A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the sensor. The reflex des ...
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History of the camera The history of the camera began even before the introduction of photography. Cameras evolved from the ''camera obscura'' through many generations of photographic technologydaguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, photographic film, filmto the mo ...


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Digital camera A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in Digital data storage, digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film or film stock. Dig ...
Digital camera A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in Digital data storage, digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film or film stock. Dig ...