Originally posted by surfar Well, the sensor in the Nikon is TowerJazz,not Sony...When Sony develop a new FF sensor for their cameras RI will be able to afford the "old hat" 42mp sensor Sony has in the A7r3.
Originally posted by Ian Stuart Forsyth Someone better tell TowerJazz that Sony is telling everyone that's its built by them
I had already read about the Nikon D850 sensor for a long time, and it seems plausible to me. Sony cannot should not be a monopolizer of the sensors on the market.
In this regard I would like, a Pentax made of Pentax, totally Pentax. I believe that the pentaxians like me as well. I quote the full text from the magazine where I read the article.
" Dependency on Sony for the sensor is certainly not a pleasant prospect for Nikon, especially today that Sony has become a fierce competitor. Nikon has therefore turned his gaze elsewhere.
It is well known that the sensor mounted by the Nikon D850 is no longer produced by Sony, but what is the manufacturer then, given that Nikon has not revealed it? According to our sources, this would be the result of collaboration between different companies. First of all Nikon, who defined the characteristics that the sensor should have. Engineering, i. e.
the definition of the specifications for industrial production, was carried out by Forza Silicon Co. Surprises the Italian name, but the company is from Pasadena, California.
Founded in 2001, according to Bloomberg, it is a semiconductor design company for high-resolution, high-speed CMOS image sensors.
Its image sensors are used inter alia by cameras, camcorders, mobile phones and X-ray equipment. It is active in consumer electronics, medicine, biotechnology, defence and the automotive market.
Forza Silicon Corporation has a strategic partnership with TowerJazz.
And here comes into play the manufacturer, TPS Co Ltd, Towerjazz Panasonic Semiconductors Co Ltd, which materially produces the sensors; this company is a joint venture between Towerjazz and Panasonic,
which has contributed three of its plants. If Panasonic does not need any introduction, TowerJazz is a highly customizable chip manufacturer that was founded in 1993 and has 2 factories in Israel and 2 in the United States."