An Afternoon at Dalsa

Fig:1DALSA Head Office – Waterloo, Ontario
Interest in medium format digital is growing. The price of medium format backs is dropping, and untethered backs that can work in the field as easily as film backs are now available, or coming soon from all the major manufacturers. Mamiya has also recently shaken things up with their forthcoming 22 Megapixel ZD body and backs.
But, all of the companies making state-of-the-art 22 MP medium format backs use imaging chips from just two companies;KodakandDALSA. While DSLRs feature chips from Canon (who make chips only for their own cameras), Sony, Sanyo and Matsushita, who act as OEMs for just about everyone else, the makers of the very large and expensive chips for medium format are just these two.
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Corn Fields
In an industrial park at the far north end of Waterloo, Ontario, is a campus of low-rise office buildings belonging to DALSA. Not more than a quarte...