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Leica have teamed up with Gpixel, a Chinese imaging company, to develop their next-gen camera sensors.
>“The partnership focuses on jointly engineering a bespoke image sensor optimized for Leica’s rigorous imaging standards, enabling unprecedented levels of image quality, dynamic range, color fidelity, and low-light performance across future Leica products,” [they say].
>Leica promises that the jointly developed image sensor will be purpose-engineered to meet Leica’s very high performance standards, particularly concerning color reproduction, noise performance, dynamic range, and resolution. The companies will also work together to carefully tune and ultimately mass-produce the required image sensors.
It's often repeated on /p/ that sensor technology has "plateaued." What will Leica have to do with their next-gen camera to dispel that idea?
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>>4506065
According to the press release, Gpixel are “a Chinese image sensor company with offices globally, including in Europe, Japan, and the Americas. [They] make a wide range of image sensors, including off-the-shelf, semi-customized, and fully-customized chips for medical, scientific, industrial, and professional imaging applications. [Their] catalog of sensors [includes] high-resolution BSI sensors, stacked sensors, and… full-frame global-shutter chips.”
Sauce: https://petapixel.com/2026/04/20/leica-partners-with-gpixel-to-make-it s-next-generation-image-sensor/
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>>4506066
Considering the place I worked at was a shithole that had "offices globally" (read: one outsourced guy with a phoneline in USA, Germany, Australia, and Singapore each), and "made a wide range of industrial equipment for multinational companies" (read: made temp sensors for random machinery), this is just marketing buzzphrases to make them sound like a real player.
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>>4506075
I looked on their official site at their locations section and their entirety of international offices is one floor in a small office tower in Japan and the other in Belgium didn't even come up on a map for some reason. Nothing listed for the Americas at all.
Having a single floor of a building in another country isn't very impressive either, even my piece of shit company occupies entire buildings or at least multiple floors of buildings in about a dozen countries.
Maybe Leica is just going to use these sensors in their cheapest models or something, because this doesn't sound like a flagship company. They've also only been around for just over 10 years.
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>>4507076
Like phase one's iq4 size? or actual 645 or 6x6?
Perhaps Leica will announce a new medium format camera first for the new chinese sensor.
If they release new S series with crop MF sensor like fuji and hasselblad, they can get fucked and phase one will keep the crown of digital MF.
If leica use a reasonable performance's 40mp global shutter FF sensor in M12 and SL4, Q4, they do something sincerely based that anyone hasn't done for a decade.