List Camera Manufacturers That Also Made Enlarging Lenses

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I’ll start with some easy ones:

Nikon : El Nikkor
Minolta : Rokkor CE
 

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Fuji/Fujica/Fujiphoto, Yashica, Kowa, Agfa, Beseler, Gami, Mamiya, Olympus, MMZ-Belomo, Minox, Soligor, Argus, Ilford.
 

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Meopta made enlargers, enlarging lenses and TLRs (and a 35mm??). All sort of strange names.
Rodenstock also made cameras between the wars.
Minox, don't know the name of the lens in their enlarger.
Fuji
 

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Nicholas Lindan said:
Minox, don't know the name of the lens in their enlarger.
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Micro-Minox. Like the others, I don't know who actually made it. I suspect the Soligor and the non-VHE Vivitar enlarging lenses were made by Fujimoto, or some place like that.
 

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Rodenstock made some folding cameras pre-WWII, so technically they were a camera company
Did Schneider ever make a camera?
 

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bdial said:
Kodak
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I have three Kodak Enlarging Ektar lenses in my collection, 50mm ƒ4.5, 75mm ƒ4.5 and 100mm ƒ4.5. They are outstanding lenses.

On another note, I have heard that Durst Neonon enlarging lenses were made by Asahi Pentax. Does anyone know if that's true?
 

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Don't forget Warszawskie Zakłady Fotooptyczne (WZFO).
 

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Yes Pentax made some of the Durst Neonon lenses.

Canon made an enlarger lens just before WWI as well as an enlarger, Ross (Ensign) made a range of enlarger lenses

Nicholas Lindan said:
Rodenstock also made cameras between the wars.
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Rodenstock sold re-badged Welta cameras, I have one.

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It would be good to see some pictures of the cameras of some of these putative camera manufacturers and rare lenses.

Here is the Vivitar, that is an easy one:

 

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I believe "Beseler" cameras - e.g. Beseler Topcon - had that name because Beseler was a distributor of those cameras, not a manufacturer.
 

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There are plenty of Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian enlarging lenses, and most (all?) of the makers sold cameras as well. It would take more time than I have to dig them up.

The same goes for Chinese enlarging lenses -- the lens makers (ex., Seagull, Phenix, Pearl River) made cameras too.

As to re-badged cameras, the same applies to enlarging lenses -- most were sold under non-manufacturer labels (Vivitar, AIC, Durst, Cambron, etc.)

And here's two more camera makers that made enlarging lenses -- Goerz & Gami.
 

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Carl Zeiss: S-Orthoplanar 4/50mm and 4/60mm, and also a 105mm

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