What is the best camera company?

Which sounds like a stupid answer, but it's not. There are a lot of good camera companies. In Japan, Canon, Nikon, Pentax and Mamiya are all good camera companies. Rollei and Leitz are both great German camera companies, Hasselblad is a fine Swedish camera company, and Sinar Bron is a good Swiss camera company. It also depends on what KIND of camera you want--the cameras Canon makes are nothing like the ones Sinar Bron makes. Canon and Nikon are the two largest camera companies right now, with Canon still the leader in quality cameras. Olympus has some great new technology that looks promising for the future.