List of digital camera brands past and present, updated to 2008, but may miss some. With some of the brands, the name used was of an older or bigger company. Not all makers of devices that can take digital images are listed here, such as many industrial digital camera makers, some webcam brands, and possibly some brands of video cameras that can take digital stills. Notable defunct brands are listed separately.
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Compact Digital Camera brands
As of December 2008[update], these brands offer full lines of compact digital cameras:
- aigo - DV series Digital Cameras and Digital camcoders and other digital products
- Canon - Ixus, Powershot compact cameras, and Digital EOS/Digital Rebel DSLRs
- Casio - Exilim compact digital cameras
- Fujifilm - FinePix compacts, and FinePix Pro DSLRs in collaboration with Nikon
- HP
- Kodak - EasyShare Z-Series (Performance), M-Series (Style), C-Series (Point & Shoot) compacts. Zi-Series (Style), Zx-Series (Outdoor) HD Pocket Digital Video Cameras
- Leica - C-Lux, D-Lux, V-Lux, and the new X1 compacts, S-series DSLRs, and the digital rangefinder M Series including the full-frame M9
- Mamiya - compacts, and ZD-series
- Nikon - Coolpix compacts and D-series DSLRs
- Olympus - C-, D-, and FE-series and Stylus compacts and E-series DSLRs based on the Four Thirds System, Also Olympus PEN E-P1 based on the Micro Four Thirds System
- Panasonic - Lumix compacts and Lumix DMC-L DSLRs based on the Four Thirds System
- Pentax - Optio compacts and K-series DSLRs
- Ricoh - Caplio and other compacts
- Samsung - compacts, and GX-series DSLRs in collaboration with Pentax
- Sigma - DP1 high-end compact and SD-series DSLRs
- Sony - Cyber-shot compacts and α DSLRs
- Vivitar - Brand is now owned by Sakar International.
Other brands
Most of these brands produce only webcams or high-end digital backs:
- Aiptek
- Arecont
- Argus (licensed brand name of extinct company)
- Atiger
- AVF - webcams only
- Axis - network cameras / standalone webcams only
- BenQ
- Brica
- Cobra
- Concord
- Cool-iCam
- Creative - webcams only
- D-Link
- EarthCam - webcams only
- Emprex
- Epson
- Genius
- Hasselblad - digital backs
- Hitachi
- HP
- JVC
- It Works
- Iqinvision
- Jenoptik
- Ken-A-Vision
- Kyocera (as of 2005, only cameraphones)
- Largan
- LeafMedia:http://www.leaf-photography.com/products_aptus2.asp - digital backs
- Livelook - webcams only
- Logitech - webcams only
- Lumenera
- Maxell
- Microsoft - LifeCam series
- Microtek
- Minox
- Micro Innovations
- Mobotix
- Mustek
- Nokia - cell phone camera
- Ocuview - Webcam
- Oregon Scientific
- Philips - Webcam
- Polaroid (name used under license from Polaroid corp. by other manufacturers)
- Praktica
- Premier
- Rollei
- Sanyo
- Sharp
- SiPix
- SMaL
- Soligor
- Suprema
- Swann
- Trust
- Toyo
- UMAX
Defunct brands
- Agfa - Agfa digital cameras
- Apple Inc. - iSight - Still exists, but does not produce the standalone iSight camera.
- Chinon
- Contax
- Gateway
- Hewlett-Packard -left market in 2007-11-07 [1].
- Konica
- Konica Minolta
- Minolta
- Nintendo - Game Boy Camera - Still exists, but does not produce digital cameras.
- Toshiba
- Yashica
See also
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