Bodies
The cameras the lenses were made for. 385 families, in the order they appeared — variants, serial ranges, how to tell them apart, and what the sources disagree about.
Nikon rangefinder
The cameras that turned an optical supplier into a camera maker — from the Nikon I of 1948, built while Japan was still under occupation, to the SP that Nikon put up against the Leica M3.
Cosina Voigtländer
Nikon F
Nikon’s single-lens reflexes, from the F of 1959 — the camera that took professional photography away from the rangefinder — to the F6 of 2004, the last professional film SLR anyone built.
Nikkormat
- Nikkormat FS (Nikomat FS)
- Nikkormat FT (Nikomat FT, Nikomat FS, Nikkormat FS)
- Nikkormat FTn (Nikomat FTn)
- Nikkormat EL (Nikomat EL)
- Nikkormat FT2 (Nikomat FT2)
- Nikkormat ELW (Nikomat ELW)
- Nikkormat FT3 (Nikomat FT3)
- Nikon EL2
FM/FE compact
- Nikon FM
- Nikon FE
- Nikon FM2
- Nikon FA
- Nikon FE2
- Nikon FM2 Half Frame (FM2 1/2, Norwegian Police FM2, FM2N Half Frame)
- Nikon FM3A
EM/FG compact
- Nikon EM
- Nikon FG (Nikon FG-20)
- Nikon FG-20
Autofocus
- Nikon F-301 (Nikon N2000)
- Nikon F-501 (Nikon N2020)
- Nikon F-401 (Nikon N4004, Nikon N4004s, Nikon N5005)
- Nikon F-801 (Nikon N8008, Nikon N8008S)
- Nikon F-601 (Nikon N6006, Nikon N6000)
- Nikon F90 (Nikon N90, Nikon N90s, Nikon F90X)
- Nikon F50 (Nikon N50)
- Nikon F70 (Nikon N70)
- Nikon F100
- Nikon F60 (Nikon N60, Nikon N60 QD)
- Nikon F65 (Nikon N65, Nikon U)
- Nikon F80 (Nikon N80, Nikon N80 QD)
- Nikon F55 (Nikon N55, Nikon Us)
- Nikon F75 (Nikon N75, Nikon U2)
Olympus OM
Maitani’s answer to the size of the SLR: the M-1 of 1972, renamed OM-1 when Leitz objected, and the OM-2, OM-3 and OM-4 that followed it, the smallest full-frame system SLRs anyone made, with the shutter dial around the lens mount.
OM single-digit
OM double-digit
Canon FD
From the F-1 of 1971, Canon’s first professional system camera, through the AE-1 that sold millions on a microprocessor and a television campaign, to the T90 of 1986, the last manual-focus Canon and the body that drew the shape of every EOS.
F-1 professional
FT amateur
F series
A series
- Canon AE-1
- Canon AT-1
- Canon A-1
- Canon AE-1 Program
- Canon AL-1 (AL-1 Quick Focus, AL-1 QF)
Mamiya
The studio and wedding cameras of Japan from 1970 to the end of film: the revolving-back RB67 and RZ67, the 645 that put medium format in a 35mm-sized body and the autofocus 645 AF that carried it into the digital-back years, the Press cameras, the interchangeable-lens C-series twin-lens reflexes, and the Mamiya 6 and 7, the rangefinders that made 6×6 and 6×7 hand-holdable.
Mamiya Press
- Mamiya Press (Mamiya Press Deluxe (US, 1962), Revue Press (Foto-Quelle, Germany))
- Mamiya Press Super 23
645 second generation
645 autofocus
- Mamiya 645 AF / AFD (Phase One 645 AF)
Pentax medium format
A 35mm SLR scaled up to 6×7: the Asahi Pentax 6×7 of 1969, the 67 and the 67II, and the 645 of 1984 that gave medium format a motor, a meter and a grip in one body.
Norita
A 6×6 SLR shaped like an outsized 35mm camera: the Norita 66 of 1970 to 1976, sold in North America as the Graflex Norita, and the Rittreck 6×6 of 1968 it was developed from.
Musashino Koki
- Rittreck 6×6 / Warner 66 (Warner 66, Warner 6×6, Revue Rittreck Six)
Norita Kogaku
- Norita 66 / Graflex Norita (Graflex Norita, Graflex Norita 66)
Contax 645
Kyocera’s autofocus 6×4.5 SLR of 1999 to 2005, built around interchangeable film backs and kept in use as a body for digital backs.
- Contax 645 (Contax 645 AF)
Bronica
Zenzaburo Yoshino’s cameras: the focal-plane 6×6 Bronicas of 1959–80 that took Nikkor lenses, then the leaf-shutter ETR (6×4.5), SQ (6×6) and GS-1 (6×7) lines that made Bronica the wedding photographer’s Hasselblad, and the RF645 rangefinder Tamron built at the end, before the name was retired in 2005.
Focal-plane 6×6
- Zenza Bronica (Z / Deluxe / D) (Zenza Bronica Deluxe, Bronica D, Bronica DX, Bronica Z)
- Zenza Bronica S (Bronica S, Bronica Standard)
- Zenza Bronica C (Bronica C, Bronica Model C)
- Zenza Bronica C2 (Bronica C2, Bronica C-2)
- Zenza Bronica S2
- Zenza Bronica S2A
- Zenza Bronica EC
- Zenza Bronica EC-TL (Bronica ECTL)
- Zenza Bronica EC-TL II (Bronica ECTL II, Bronica EC-TL2)
ETR
- Bronica ETR
- Bronica ETR-C (Bronica ETR C)
- Bronica ETRC
- Bronica ETRS
- Bronica ETRSi (Bronica ETR-Si)
SQ
- Bronica SQ
- Bronica SQ-A
- Bronica SQ-Am
- Bronica SQ-Ai
- Bronica SQ-B (SQ Basic, SQベーシック)
GS-1
- Bronica GS-1 (Zenza Bronica GS-1)
RF645
Fuji medium format
Fuji’s 120 cameras from the G690 of 1968 to the GF670 of 2008: the interchangeable-lens G690 rangefinders, the fixed-lens GW and GSW 6×9s that the trade called Texas Leicas, the 6×4.5 GS645 folders and autofocus GA645s, the GX680 studio SLR with front movements, the 6×17 panoramics, and the GF670 folder that was the last new medium-format film camera from a major maker.
G690 rangefinders
GW and GSW
GF670 and the panoramics
- Fujica Panorama G617 Professional (Fuji Panorama G617 Professional, Fuji G617)
- Fuji Panorama GX617 Professional
- Fujifilm GF670 Professional (Voigtländer Bessa III, Voigtländer Bessa III 667)
- Fujifilm GF670W Professional (Voigtländer Bessa III W, Voigtländer Bessa III 667W)
GS645 and GA645
- Fujica GS645 Professional (Fuji GS645 Professional, Fuji GS645 Pro)
- Fuji GS645W Professional (Fujica GS645W Professional, Fujica GS645W Professional Wide, Fuji GS645W Pro)
- Fuji GS645S Professional (Fuji GS645S Professional Wide60, Fuji GS645S Wide 60, Fuji GS645S Pro)
- Fuji GA645 Professional
- Fuji GA645W Professional
- Fuji GA645i Professional
- Fuji GA645Wi Professional
- Fuji GA645Zi Professional
Rollei
Franke & Heidecke’s 6×6 cameras: the Rolleiflex of 1929 that defined the twin-lens reflex and the Automats, 2.8s, 3.5s, Rolleicords, Tele and Wide that followed it to the 2015 FX and FW; the SL66 of 1966 with its bellows and tilting lens standard; and the SLX of 1976 and the 6000 series, the first medium-format SLRs with a motor and electronic leaf shutters built in.
Rolleiflex Standard and Automat
- Rolleiflex Original (1929) (Rolleiflex 6×6 Original, Rolleiflex K1, Rolleiflex Urmodell)
- Rolleiflex Old Standard (Rolleiflex Standard (1932), Rolleiflex K2, Rolleiflex 620 / 621 / 622)
- Rolleiflex Automat (incl. X, MX / 3.5A, MX-EVS / 3.5B) (Rolleiflex Automat RF 111A, Rolleiflex 3.5 (Automat X), Rolleiflex 3.5A (Automat MX), Rolleiflex 3.5B (Automat MX-EVS), Rolleiflex K4)
- Rolleiflex New Standard (Rolleiflex Standard Neu, Rolleiflex K4 640, Rolleiflex Standard (1939))
Rolleicord
- Rolleicord I (Rolleicord Ia, Rolleicord 'Art Deco', Rolleicord Nickel (Tapeten-Rolleicord))
- Rolleicord II (Rolleicord II Models 1–6, Rolleicord IIa, IIb, IIc, IId, IIe)
- Rolleicord III
- Rolleicord IV
- Rolleicord V
- Rolleicord Va
- Rolleimagic (Rollei Magic, Rollei-Magic I / II, Rolleimagic I / II)
- Rolleicord Vb
Rolleiflex 2.8
- Rolleiflex 2.8A
- Rolleiflex 2.8B
- Rolleiflex 2.8C
- Rolleiflex 2.8D
- Rolleiflex 2.8E / E2 / E3 (Rolleiflex 2.8E, Rolleiflex 2.8E2, Rolleiflex 2.8E3)
- Rolleiflex 2.8F
Rolleiflex 3.5, T, Tele and Wide
- Rolleiflex 3.5E (Rolleiflex 3.5C (European and Prochnow name for the first model), Rolleiflex 3.5E1 (North America), Rolleiflex 3.5E2, Rolleiflex 3.5E3)
- Rolleiflex 3.5F (Rolleiflex 3,5 F)
- Rolleiflex T (Rolleiflex T1, Rolleiflex T2, Rolleiflex T3, Rolleiflex T Grey)
- Tele-Rolleiflex (Tele Rolleiflex, Rolleiflex Tele, Tele-Rolleiflex K7S)
- Wide-Angle Rolleiflex (Rollei-Wide, Rolleiwide, Rolleiflex Wide, Wide Rolleiflex, Wide-Angle Rolleiflex K7W)
SL66
SLX and 6000
- Rolleiflex SLX
- Rolleiflex 6006
- Rolleiflex 6002
- Rolleiflex 6008 professional
- Rolleiflex 6003 (Rolleiflex 6003 SRC 1000, Rolleiflex 6003 professional)
- Rolleiflex 6008 integral (Rolleiflex 6008i)
- Rolleiflex 6001 professional (Rolleiflex 6001)
- Rolleiflex 6008 AF (Rolleiflex 6008AF)
- Rolleiflex Hy6 (Sinar Hy6, Leaf AFi, Leaf AFi-II, Rolleiflex Hy6 mod2)
Rolleiflex GX, FX, FW and FT
Fujica
Fuji’s SLRs: the ST701 of 1970 with the first silicon photocell meter in a 35mm camera, the ST801 with the first LED readout, the ST901 with the first digital shutter-speed display, and the AX and STX bayonet bodies of 1979 to 1985 that ended the line.
ST (M42)
AX
- Fujica AX-1 (Porst CR-3 Automatic)
- Fujica AX-3 (Porst CR-5, Fujinon MAX35X (medical version))
- Fujica AX-5 (Porst CR-7)
STX
- Fujica STX-1 / STX-1N (Fujica MPF105X (STX-1), Fujica MPF105XN (STX-1N), Porst CR-1)
- Fuji STX-2 (Fujica STX-2)
Contax rangefinder
Zeiss Ikon’s answer to the Leica, and the camera the Soviet Union carried away in 1945: the Contax line and the Kievs that continued it for another forty years.
Contax (Zeiss Ikon)
Contax G
The last new rangefinder system: two titanium bodies that focus their Zeiss lenses for you, made from 1994 until Kyocera left cameras in 2005.
Contax S and Pentacon
Dresden’s pentaprism reflexes of 1949 to 1962: the Contax S and the D, E, F, FB, FM and FBM that followed it, sold for export as Pentacon while Dresden and Zeiss Ikon of Stuttgart fought over the Contax name.
- Contax S
- Contax D / Pentacon (Hexacon, ConSol, Astraflex 35, Super D)
- Contax E / Pentacon E
- Contax F / Pentacon F
- Contax FB / Pentacon FB
- Contax FBM / Pentacon FBM
- Contax FM / Pentacon FM
Contax SLR
Kyocera’s Contax reflexes, from the Porsche-styled RTS of 1975 that brought Zeiss back to the 35mm SLR to the Aria, the RX II and the autofocus N1 and NX of the final years before Kyocera left cameras in 2005.
RTS
- Contax RTS (Contax RTS I)
- Contax RTS II Quartz (Contax RTS II)
- Contax RTS III
S2 mechanical
ST, RX, AX and Aria
- Contax ST
- Contax RX
- Contax AX
- Contax Aria
- Contax RX II (Contax RXII)
Contarex
Zeiss Ikon Stuttgart’s professional 35mm reflexes, from the 1959 Bullseye with its round selenium meter to the Super Electronic, with interchangeable film magazines, plus the fixed-lens Hologon Ultrawide and the microscope body built on the same chassis.
First generation
Second generation
- Contarex Professional (Contarex P)
- Contarex Super (Contarex S)
- Contarex Super Electronic (SE) (Contarex SE, Contarex Electronic, Contarex S electronic)
Special-purpose cameras
Hasselblad
Everything Hasselblad built for 120 film: the 6×6 V system from the 1600F of 1948 onward with its Zeiss and Schneider glass, the Ross-built military cameras of 1940–45 where the company began, and the autofocus H system of 2002.
Ross military
1600F and 1000F
Superwide
500 series
Photogrammetric
FlexBody and ArcBody
Leica M
One window for focusing and framing, frames that change with the lens, and a bayonet: the M3 settled the shape of the rangefinder camera and Leitz has been refining the same object ever since.
M rangefinder
Minolta
Cosina Voigtländer
- Bessa T (Bessa-T, Bessa T 101)
- Bessa R2
- Bessa R2A / R3A
- Bessa R2M / R3M
- Bessa R4A / R4M
Leica screw mount
Thirty-five years of Barnack Leicas, from the fixed-lens camera that made 35mm film worth taking seriously to the IIIg that Leitz was still building after the M3 had made it obsolete — and the Canons of 1946 to 1968 that took the same thread, out-built them, and out-sold them.
Barnack screw era
Seiki Kōgaku / Canon
Canon rangefinder
Canon’s first cameras, built around lenses and rangefinders that Nippon Kogaku made for them.
Hasselblad XPan
- Hasselblad XPan (Fujifilm TX-1)
- Hasselblad XPan II (Fujifilm TX-2)
Point-and-shoot compacts
The 35mm point-and-shoot cameras people actually carried — a fixed lens, a meter, and as little to decide as the maker could manage. The best of them put optics from the professional lines into a pocket, which is why a Contax T2 now costs more than the SLR it was sold beside.
Rollei
Olympus
- Olympus Trip 35
- Olympus XA
- Olympus XA2
- Olympus XA1
- Olympus XA4
- Olympus mju / Infinity Stylus (Olympus ∞ Stylus, Olympus Infinity Stylus, Olympus mju I)
- Olympus mju-II (Olympus Stylus Epic, Olympus ∞ Stylus Epic)
Minox
Canon
- Canon AF35M (Sure Shot, Autoboy)
- Canon AF35ML (Super Sure Shot, Autoboy Super)
Nikon
- Nikon L35AF (Nikon Pikaichi, Nikon One Touch, Nikon L35AD)
- Nikon 35Ti
- Nikon 28Ti (Nikon 28Ti Quartz Date)
Kyocera
- Contax T
- Yashica T series (Kyocera T, Kyocera T Scope, Kyocera Slim T, Kyocera T Proof)
- Contax T2
- Contax TVS
- Contax TVS III
- Contax T3
Konica
- Konica Hexar AF (Konica Hexar)
Pentax
- Pentax Espio Mini (UC-1)
Minolta
Ricoh
Fujifilm
- Fujifilm Klasse (Rollei AFM 35)
- Fujifilm Natura (Natura S, Natura Black F1.9)
- Fujifilm Natura Classica (Natura NS)
- Fujifilm Klasse S
- Fujifilm Klasse W
Alpa
Hand-built in Ballaigues by a watch-parts maker, 1944 to 1990, some forty thousand in all: the first SLRs with a coupled rangefinder, a 45° prism nobody copied, and a TTL meter in the prism before Pentax. Every generation fits the same bayonet.
- Alpa Reflex (Alpa Reflex, Alpa Standard, Alpa Prisma Reflex, Prisma Reflex, Bolca, Bolca Reflex, Alpa Reflex I, Alpa Reflex II)
- Alpa Alnea / Reflex 4–8 (Alpa Alnea, Alnea, Alpa Alnea Model 4, Alpa Alnea Model 5, Alpa Alnea Model 6, Alpa Alnea Model 7, Alnea Model 7, Alnea Model 6, Alnea Model 5, Alpa Reflex Model 4, Alpa Reflex Model 5, Alpa Reflex Model 6, Alpa Reflex Model 7, Alpa Reflex Model 8, Reflex Model 7, Alpa Model 7, Alpa Mod. 7, Alpa Reflex Mod.4, Alpa Reflex Mod.5, Alpa Reflex Mod.6, Alpa Reflex Mod.7, Alpa Reflex Mod.8, Reflex Mod.6, Reflex Mod.7, Alpa Reflex 4, Alpa Reflex 5, Alpa Reflex 6, Alpa Reflex 7, Alpa Reflex 8, Alpa 4, Alpa 5, Alpa 6, Alpa 7, Alpa 8, Alpa 6b, Alpa 7b, Alpa 8b, Alpa 7s, Alnea 7, Alnea 4, Alnea 5)
- Alpa 6c (Alpa Reflex 6c, Alpa 6c, 6c, Reflex Mod.6c, Alpa Reflex Mod.6c, Mod.6c, Alpa Mod. 6c)
- Alpa 9d (Alpa Reflex 9d, Alpa 9d, Alpa 9f, 9d, 9f)
- Alpa 10d (Alpa Reflex 10d, Alpa 10d, Alpa 10s, Alpa 10f, Revue Alpa, 10d)
- Alpa 11 (Alpa 11e, Alpa 11el, Alpa 11si, Alpa 11z, Alpa 11a, Alpa 11m, Alpa 11s, Alpa 11r, Alpa 11f, Alpa 11es, 11si, 11e, 11el)
Half-frame cameras
Two frames of 18×24 mm in the space of one — 72 exposures from a roll of 36. Maitani’s 1959 Pen started it and Ricoh, Canon, Fuji, Konica, Minolta and Agfa followed within four years; Kyocera tried again in 1987 with a zoom SLR, and Pentax in 2024 with the first new film camera from a major maker in twenty years. The Pen F is the only one whose lens comes off.
Olympus
- Olympus Pen (Pen S)
- Olympus Pen EE (Pen EES, Pen EED, Pen EE-2, Pen EE-3, Pen EF)
- Olympus Pen D
- Olympus Pen F (Pen FT, Pen FV)
- Olympus Pen W (Pen Wide)
Minolta
- Minolta Repo (Repo-S)
Ricoh
Agfa
- Agfa Parat (Parat I, Paramat, Optima-Parat)
Canon
- Canon Demi (Demi C, Demi EE28)
- Canon Dial 35 (Bell & Howell Dial 35, Dial 35-2)
- Canon Demi EE17 (Demi S, Demi Rapid)
Fuji
- Fujica Half (Fujica Drive, Fujica Half 1.9)
- Fujica Mini (New Fujica Mini)
- Fuji TW-3 (Twing)
Konica
- Konica Eye (Eye 2, Eye 3, Wards Eye)
- Konica Recorder (AA-35)
Yashica
- Yashica Samurai (Kyocera Samurai)
Kodak
- Kodak Ektar H35 (Ektar H35N)