World’s First 100+ Megapixel CCD Image Sensor

Quote .. DALSA Semiconductor, an international high performance semiconductor and electronics company, announced today that it has successfully fabricated and delivered the world’s highest resolution image sensor chip to its customer
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DALSA Semiconductor manufactured the device for STA at its wafer fabrication facility in Bromont, Quebec.


ahh .. beautiful, downtown Bromont



... discuss ..

built for the Navy eh - what's the chances of that seeing the light of day for a long long time then?

space related end use .. so you might benefit sooner than you think .. ;o)

space related and navy usually involves looking back at us not out into space ;-)

I’m pretty sure that if Dalsa can find more customers they would sell it or a derivative of it.

100 mp eh, mind blowing. But I am sure when it comes out it will be way overpriced and who really needs anything more than 12. Realistically I use a 6.1 mp Nikon D70 (hope to upgrade soon) and my shots get blown up pretty big and still publish fine.

Steve - whilst its true that normally anything below 10MP is pretty superfluous for printing your images - the same isn't necessarily true with commercial work. Hasselblad and PhaseOne for instance produce medium format cameras now at 60+ MP that allow for billboard or even full building blow ups at very good resolution and with incredibly fine detail not previously possible with digital cameras. This is especially useful with studio/fashion work.

incidentally - i rechecked their site - they are upto 140MP sensors now - custom developed for aerial ground mapping detailing objects as small as 30mm.

True enough man, sorry I tend to always look at things from my situation in which luckily (since i only shoot at 6.1 mp)nothing gets blown up past the size of a newspaper page. It's commercial, just not bigtime commercial, lol, good point though man and i must admit I do fantasize every day about my eventual body upgrade to at least 12.3mp.