Bodies
The cameras the lenses were made for. 211 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.
Nippon Kogaku
- Nikon I — Nikon S mount · 1948 · 24×32 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Nikon M — Nikon S mount · 1949 · 24×34 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Nikon S — Nikon S mount · 1951 · 24×34 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Nikon S2 — Nikon S mount · 1954 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
- Nikon SP — Nikon S mount · 1957 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
- Nikon S3 — Nikon S mount · 1958 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
- Nikon S4 — Nikon S mount · 1959 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Nikon S3M — Nikon S mount · 1960 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
Cosina Voigtländer
- Bessa R2S / R2C — Nikon S + Contax RF mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
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.
F professional
- Nikon F — Nikon F mount · 1959 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
- Nikon F2 — Nikon F mount · 1971 · 24×36 on 35mm · 9 variants
- Nikon F3 — Nikon F mount · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 7 variants
- Nikon F4 — Nikon F mount · 1988 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Nikon F5 — Nikon F mount · 1996 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon F6 — Nikon F mount · 2004 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikkormat
- Nikkormat FS (Nikomat FS) — Nikon F mount · 1965 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikkormat FT (Nikomat FT, Nikomat FS, Nikkormat FS) — Nikon F mount · 1965 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikkormat FTn (Nikomat FTn) — Nikon F mount · 1967 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikkormat EL (Nikomat EL) — Nikon F mount · 1972 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikkormat FT2 (Nikomat FT2) — Nikon F mount · 1975 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikkormat ELW (Nikomat ELW) — Nikon F mount · 1976 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikkormat FT3 (Nikomat FT3) — Nikon F mount · 1977 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikon EL2 — Nikon F mount · 1977 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
FM/FE compact
- Nikon FM — Nikon F mount · 1977 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon FE — Nikon F mount · 1978 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon FM2 — Nikon F mount · 1982 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Nikon FA — Nikon F mount · 1983 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon FE2 — Nikon F mount · 1983 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikon FM2 Half Frame (FM2 1/2, Norwegian Police FM2, FM2N Half Frame) — Nikon F mount · 1983 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon FM3A — Nikon F mount · 2001 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
EM/FG compact
- Nikon EM — Nikon F mount · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikon FG (Nikon FG-20) — Nikon F mount · 1982 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon FG-20 — Nikon F mount · 1984 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Autofocus
- Nikon F-301 (Nikon N2000) — Nikon F mount · 1985 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikon F-501 (Nikon N2020) — Nikon F mount · 1986 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikon F-401 (Nikon N4004, Nikon N4004s, Nikon N5005) — Nikon F mount · 1987 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Nikon F-801 (Nikon N8008, Nikon N8008S) — Nikon F mount · 1988 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon F-601 (Nikon N6006, Nikon N6000) — Nikon F mount · 1990 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon F90 (Nikon N90, Nikon N90s, Nikon F90X) — Nikon F mount · 1992 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon F50 (Nikon N50) — Nikon F mount · 1994 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon F70 (Nikon N70) — Nikon F mount · 1994 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon F100 — Nikon F mount · 1998 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikon F60 (Nikon N60, Nikon N60 QD) — Nikon F mount · 1998 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon F65 (Nikon N65, Nikon U) — Nikon F mount · 2000 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Nikon F80 (Nikon N80, Nikon N80 QD) — Nikon F mount · 2000 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Nikon F55 (Nikon N55, Nikon Us) — Nikon F mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Nikon F75 (Nikon N75, Nikon U2) — Nikon F mount · 2003 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
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 I — Contax RF mount · 1932 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Contax II — Contax RF mount · 1936 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Contax III — Contax RF mount · 1936 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Jena Contax — Contax RF mount · 1946 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Contax IIa — Contax RF mount · 1950 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Contax IIIa — Contax RF mount · 1951 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Kiev (Arsenal)
- Kiev II — Contax RF mount · 1947 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Kiev III — Contax RF mount · 1952 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Kiev 4 — Contax RF mount · 1958 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Kiev 5 — Contax RF mount · 1968 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Kiev 4M — Contax RF mount · 1976 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
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 G1 — Contax G mount · 1994 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Contax G2 — Contax G mount · 1996 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Hasselblad V
The 6×6 system from the 1600F of 1948 onward — the bodies, and the Zeiss and Schneider glass built for them.
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
- Leica M3 — Leica M mount · 1954 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
- Leica M2 — Leica M mount · 1957 · 24×36 on 35mm · 8 variants
- Leica M1 — Leica M mount · 1959 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Leica MD — Leica M mount · 1964 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Leica MDa — Leica M mount · 1966 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
- Leica M4 — Leica M mount · 1967 · 24×36 on 35mm · 8 variants
- Leica M5 — Leica M mount · 1971 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
- Leica CL — Leica M mount · 1973 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Leica M4-2 — Leica M mount · 1978 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Leica MD-2 — Leica M mount · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Leica M4-P — Leica M mount · 1981 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
- Leica M6 — Leica M mount · 1984 · 24×36 on 35mm · 8 variants
- Leica M6 TTL — Leica M mount · 1998 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
- Leica M7 — Leica M mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
Minolta
- Minolta CLE — Leica M mount · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Cosina Voigtländer
- Bessa T (Bessa-T, Bessa T 101) — Leica M mount · 2001 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Bessa R2 — Leica M mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Bessa R2A / R3A — Leica M mount · 2004 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Bessa R2M / R3M — Leica M mount · 2006 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Bessa R4A / R4M — Leica M mount · 2007 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
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.
Seiki Kōgaku / Canon
- Canon S-II — LTM mount · 1946 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Cosina Voigtländer
- Bessa L — LTM mount · 1999 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Bessa R — LTM mount · 2000 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Canon rangefinder
Canon’s first cameras, built around lenses and rangefinders that Nippon Kogaku made for them.
- Hansa Canon — Canon Hansa mount · 1936 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Hasselblad military
The Ross-built aerial and land cameras of 1940–45 that Victor Hasselblad made for the Swedish forces — where the company began.
Hasselblad H
- Hasselblad H1 — Hasselblad H mount · 2002 · 6×4.5 on 120 · 2 variants
- Hasselblad H2 — Hasselblad H mount · 2005 · 6×4.5 on 120 · 1 variant
- Hasselblad H2F — Hasselblad H mount · 2007 · 6×4.5 on 120 · 1 variant
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
- Rollei 35 — Fixed lens · 1966 · 24×36 on 35mm · 19 variants
Olympus
- Olympus Trip 35 — Fixed lens · 1967 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Olympus XA — Fixed lens · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Olympus XA2 — Fixed lens · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Olympus XA1 — Fixed lens · 1982 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Olympus XA4 — Fixed lens · 1985 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Olympus mju / Infinity Stylus (Olympus ∞ Stylus, Olympus Infinity Stylus, Olympus mju I) — Fixed lens · 1991 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Olympus mju-II (Olympus Stylus Epic, Olympus ∞ Stylus Epic) — Fixed lens · 1997 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Minox
- Minox 35 — Fixed lens · 1974 · 24×36 on 35mm · 20 variants
Canon
- Canon AF35M (Sure Shot, Autoboy) — Fixed lens · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Canon AF35ML (Super Sure Shot, Autoboy Super) — Fixed lens · 1981 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon
- Nikon L35AF (Nikon Pikaichi, Nikon One Touch, Nikon L35AD) — Fixed lens · 1983 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Nikon 35Ti — Fixed lens · 1993 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Nikon 28Ti (Nikon 28Ti Quartz Date) — Fixed lens · 1994 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Kyocera
- Contax T — Fixed lens · 1984 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Yashica T series (Kyocera T, Kyocera T Scope, Kyocera Slim T, Kyocera T Proof) — Fixed lens · 1985 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
- Contax T2 — Fixed lens · 1990 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
- Contax TVS — Fixed lens · 1993 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Contax TVS III — Fixed lens · 1999 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- Contax T3 — Fixed lens · 2001 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Konica
- Konica Hexar AF (Konica Hexar) — Fixed lens · 1992 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Minolta
- Minolta TC-1 — Fixed lens · 1996 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Ricoh
- Ricoh GR1 — Fixed lens · 1996 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- Ricoh GR21 — Fixed lens · 2001 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
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 mount · 1944 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
- 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 mount · 1952 · 24×36 on 35mm · 8 variants
- Alpa 6c (Alpa Reflex 6c, Alpa 6c, 6c, Reflex Mod.6c, Alpa Reflex Mod.6c, Mod.6c, Alpa Mod. 6c) — Alpa mount · 1960 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
- Alpa 9d (Alpa Reflex 9d, Alpa 9d, Alpa 9f, 9d, 9f) — Alpa mount · 1965 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
- Alpa 10d (Alpa Reflex 10d, Alpa 10d, Alpa 10s, Alpa 10f, Revue Alpa, 10d) — Alpa mount · 1968 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
- 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) — Alpa mount · 1971 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
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) — Fixed lens · 1959 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
- Olympus Pen EE (Pen EES, Pen EED, Pen EE-2, Pen EE-3, Pen EF) — Fixed lens · 1961 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 9 variants
- Olympus Pen D — Fixed lens · 1962 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
- Olympus Pen F (Pen FT, Pen FV) — Pen F mount · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
- Olympus Pen W (Pen Wide) — Fixed lens · 1964 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 1 variant
Minolta
- Minolta Repo (Repo-S) — Fixed lens · 1962 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
Ricoh
- Ricoh Auto Half — Fixed lens · 1962 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 6 variants
Agfa
- Agfa Parat (Parat I, Paramat, Optima-Parat) — Fixed lens · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
Canon
- Canon Demi (Demi C, Demi EE28) — Fixed lens · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 4 variants
- Canon Dial 35 (Bell & Howell Dial 35, Dial 35-2) — Fixed lens · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 4 variants
- Canon Demi EE17 (Demi S, Demi Rapid) — Fixed lens · 1964 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
Fuji
- Fujica Half (Fujica Drive, Fujica Half 1.9) — Fixed lens · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
Konica
- Konica Eye (Eye 2, Eye 3, Wards Eye) — Fixed lens · 1964 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
- Konica Recorder (AA-35) — Fixed lens · 1984 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
Yashica
- Yashica Samurai (Kyocera Samurai) — Fixed lens · 1987 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
Kodak
- Kodak Ektar H35 (Ektar H35N) — Fixed lens · 2022 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
Pentax
- Pentax 17 — Fixed lens · 2024 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 1 variant