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?
>>4506063>Chinese literally who companyThis is like if Rolex decided to change their internals to whoever makes Timex.
>>4506065According 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-its-next-generation-image-sensor/
https://gpixel.com/en/details_91.htmlRIP japanese camera brands
This could be specifically for black and white cameras for all we know meaning it amounts to nothing.I doubt that the Chinese have cracked the code so to speak with regards to noise levels on global shutters.
>>4506066Considering 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.
>>4506075I 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.
>>4506063My bet is on global shutter to go shutterless with the M12/M EV2 and still retain flash sync.
>>4506063>Gpixel, a Chinese imaging companyThe CEO's cousin probably owns a side-branch named Oogle
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>>4506063>Leica’s rigorous imaging standardsLol. Lmao even.
>>4506063leica going full mask off aren't they
>>4506789i looked sl3 specs, maybe they go for physically bigger sensor thing
>>4507076Like 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.
