Yashica Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, lenses, and photography equipment, founded in 1949, in Nagano, Japan. The company ceased operations in 2008 and returned to the industry in 201

Takumar is the name that Asahi Optical gave to its lenses, notably but not exclusively those for its own SLR cameras. Named after the Japanese-American portrait painter, Takuma Kajiwara, whose brother