List Camera Manufacturers That Also Made Enlarging Lenses

[ic-racer]

I’ll start with some easy ones:

Nikon : El Nikkor
Minolta : Rokkor CE

 

[Renato Tonelli]

Leica - Leitz

 

[Joel_L]

Leica Focotar

 

[Joel_L]

Forgot one, Vivitar VHE

 

[bdial]

Kodak

 

[xkaes]

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

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

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

 

[xkaes]

Minox, don't know the name of the lens in their enlarger.

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.

 

[Dirb9]

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

 

[Zathras]

Kodak

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?

 

[FotoD]

Don't forget Warszawskie Zakłady Fotooptyczne (WZFO).

 

[Ian Grant]

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?

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

Rodenstock also made cameras between the wars.

Rodenstock sold re-badged Welta cameras, I have one.

Ian

 

[ic-racer]

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:

 

[ic-racer]

I found the Kowa enlarging lens:

 

[Dustin McAmera]

Dallmeyer.

Dallmeyer - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

camera-wiki.org

Some (perhaps all) of Dallmeyer's cameras were made for him by other makers. He was mostly a lens-maker. I have a 6-inch f/4.5 Enlarging Anastigmat that I pinched from a skip at the University.

 

[MattKing]

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

 

[Philippe-Georges]

Agfa

 

[Dustin McAmera]

It's kind of cheating to add KMZ, since they made everything:

 

[xkaes]

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.

 

[Dustin McAmera]

Wray, and Gnome:

Wray - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

Gnome - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

camera-wiki.org

 

[ic-racer]

Wow, some great finds.

 

[Lachlan Young]

Did Schneider ever make a camera?

Under Manderman's ownership, they were stable-mates with Rollei & Pentacon.

 

[Hilo]

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

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[BobD]

Wollensak

 

[FotoD]

Hasn't Voigtländer been mentioned?