Digital Professional Photography Sensors
The world's leading professional imaging sensors
Capturing the picture "seen" by a photographer requires a sensor with needle-sharp resolution and superb dynamic range to show every detail and shade, fast frame rate to capture action, and great field coverage for wide angles. Over the whole photographic process, digital capture can exceed analog film quality, but only if the sensor is up to the task. The sensor one of the most critical factors in the imaging chain—without an exceptional sensor, you will limit the image quality of your visions.
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Beyond analog film quality
Our multi-megapixel sensors take digital photographs beyond the limits of analog film.
DALSA's dedicated, unique TrueFrame Image Sensor technology delivers the market's best overall image capture.
Inherently higher charge capacity with lower noise gives the dynamic range needed for higher contrast images, with
grain-free blacks and increased exposure headroom. This superb image quality comes with low
power dissipation, which means less heating of the camera and sensor, and hence lower picture noise. The low
power requirement also significantly lengthens battery life for mobile applications.
All our TrueFrame CCDs are basically compatible, enablling a camera design platform for a range of products that address the specific needs of different applications and users. To simplify camera design even more, we offer peripheral chipsets to optimize camera performance with the lowest costs and highest flexibility.
Differentiators
With characteristics such as these, the design of our pixels gives our sensors a clear advantage in image fidelity:
- Fill factor: the fill factor of our sensors is typically 80-90%. Interline CCDs and CMOS sensors have much lower fill factors due to the extra structures or circuits they place on every pixel. And to provide antiblooming, many competitors' full-frame or frame-transfer CCDs use a lateral overflow drain on each pixel, reducing fill factor. DALSA's designs offer vertical antiblooming, which drains excess charge vertically into the substrate, preserving very high fill factor while still protecting against overexposure.
- Low dark current and Low noise: the quality or our pixel design and fabrication means our sensors offer very low noise, even without the cooling or additional noise-reduction circuits competitors frequently require. And with our sensors, noise stays low even at higher frame rates.
- Better angular response: DALSA sensors provide excellent angular response, a characteristic that is very important when using fast lenses and wide angles. We offer thinner polysilicon layers and fewer structures above the charge-collection region of the pixel to reflect and distort incident light, and with our high fill factor, DALSA sensors generally do not require microlenses. Microlenses help increase effective fill factor in some sensors, but they make the performance of the pixels highly dependent on the angle of incoming light rays. Microlensed pixels do not respond uniformly at larger iris openings (low f-numbers), particularly at at the edges of the sensor.
- Superior color filters: Our proprietary pigment process delivers very precise color performance that remains stable over time.
Products
| Product | Description | Resolution | Pixel Size | Active Area |
 FTF3020C |
6 MP Color CCD | 3072 x 2048 | 12 x 12µm | 36.9mm x 24.6mm |
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FTF4027C |
11 MP Color CCD | 4008 x 2672 | 9 x 9µm | 36.1mm x 24mm |
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FTF4052C |
22 MP Color CCD | 4008 x 5344 | 9 x 9µm | 36.1mm x 48.1mm |
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FTF5033C |
17 MP Color CCD | 4992 x 3328 | 7.2 x 7.2µm | 35.9mm x 24mm |
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FTF5066C |
33 MP Color CCD | 4992 x 6668 | 7.2 x 7.2µm | 35.9mm x 48mm |
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FTF6146C |
28 MP Color CCD | 6096 x 4560 | 7.2 x 7.2µm | 43.9mm x 32.8mm |
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