What make camera/lenses take 55mm screw on filters?

To my knowledge, some of the Contax mount Zeiss lenses, ie: the 50/1.4 , 28/2.8 and some of the Minoltas ie: the 58/1.2, several other 50s, and the 28/2.0
 
Yes -- Konica AR, particularly the earlier ones, were 55mm. The MC Minoltas were 55mm, and the breech mount Canon FDs. In all cases, when the cameras were "shrunk" to go with the smaller fashion set by the Olympus OMs, the lenses were redesigned and reduced in size also, with smaller filter rings.
 
Most of the Contax lenses (IIRC, all except super-wides and high speed, non-normal lenses - e.g. f1.4/85mm) take 55mm filters. Got a number of them, and it makes buying filters easy. My D25, D35, 1.4P50 and even the 80-200VS all take 55mm filters, the D18 does not...
 
Before the fashion of making everything smaller, 55mm filter was STANDARD on Canon FD, Olympus Zuiko, Minolta Rokkors. Canon dropped to 52 later; Minolta followed Olympus to 49mm. Contax C/Y mount was introduced just prior to the downsizing era and they were 55 standard as well, as someone mentioned. And as you see above, there are plenty of others.
 
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