List of digital camera brands
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This is a list of digital camera brands past and present. 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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[edit] Compact digital camera brands
As of November 2010[update], these brands offer full lines of compact digital cameras:
Aigo - DV series, digital cameras and 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
GE- 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 Leica X1 compacts, S-series DSLRs, and the digital rangefinder M Series including the full-frame M9
LG- Mamiya - compacts, and ZD-series
- Nikon - Coolpix compacts, Nikon 1 series MILCs and D-series DSLRs
- Olympus - C-, D-, and FE-series and Stylus compacts and E-series DSLRs based on the Four Thirds System, Also the PEN digital series of mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras based on the Micro Four Thirds System, of which the first was the PEN E-P1.
- Panasonic - Lumix compacts, Lumix DMC-L DSLRs based on the Four Thirds System, Lumix DMC-G compact system cameras (CSCs) based on the Micro Four Thirds System and Digital Video Cameras including both High and Standard Definition.
- Pentax - Optio compacts, K-series DSLRs and the new Pentax Q system camera.
- Ricoh - Caplio and other compacts
- Samsung - compacts, GX-series DSLRs in collaboration with Pentax, and NX-series system cameras
- Sigma - DP1 high-end compact and SD-series DSLRs
- Sony - Cyber-shot compacts, α DSLRs and Sony NEX (e-mount) system cameras.
- Vivitar - Brand is now owned by Sakar International
Hasselblad - the most expensive digital camera at the moment
[edit] Other brands
Most of these brands produce only webcams or high-end digital backs:
- Aiptek - camcorders
- Arecont Vision - HDTV surveillance IP cameras and software
- Argus (licensed brand name of extinct company)
- AV Future Link Sdn. Bhd. (AVF) - webcams only
- Axis - network cameras / standalone webcams only
- BenQ
- Brica
- Cobra Digital
- Concord
- Cool-iCam
- Creative - webcams only
- D-Link
- EarthCam - webcams only
- Emprex
- Epson
- Genius
- Grandeye Ltd. - the technology arm of Oncam Global Group
- Hasselblad - digital backs
- Haier
- Hitachi
- JVC
- It Works[disambiguation needed
] - iPUX
- Iqinvision
- Jenoptik
- Ken-A-Vision
- Kyocera (as of 2005, only cameraphones)
- Largan
- Leaf - digital backs
- Livelook - webcams only
- Logitech - webcams only
- Lumenera
- Maxell
- Microsoft - LifeCam series
- Microtek
- Minox
- Micro Innovations
- Mobotix
- Mustek Systems
- Nokia - cell phone camera
- Ocuview - webcam
- Oncam Global Group
- Oregon Scientific
- Phase One - Phase One
- Philips - webcam
- Polaroid (name used under license from Polaroid corp. by other manufacturers)
- Praktica
- Premier
- Rollei
- Sanyo
- Sharp
- SiPix
- Soligor
- Suprema
- Swann[disambiguation needed ]
- Trust
- Toyo[disambiguation needed ]
- UMAX
[edit] Defunct brands
- Agfa - Agfa digital cameras
- Apple Inc. - iSight - Still exists, but does not produce the standalone iSight camera.
- Chinon
- Contax
- Gateway
- HP Photosmart - left market in November 2007[1]
- Konica
- Konica Minolta
- Minolta - Assets relating to digital imaging were transferred to Sony in 2006.
- Nintendo - Game Boy Camera - Still exists, but does not produce digital cameras.
- Toshiba
- Yashica
