Phase One Acquires Mamiya Digital Imaging

Phase One, a provider of open-platform, high-end camera systems and solutions, has announced that it has acquired the assets of Mamiya Digital Imaging Company (MDI) and has appointed Makoto Honda as the new president of Phase One Japan.

Mamiya has a long-established reputation in the camera sector. As a 45 percent shareholder in MDI since 2009, Phase One has developed detailed insight into the camera and lens design and production process and engineered important improvements through its close collaboration with the MDI team in Japan. With this transaction, Phase One now also takes total ownership for all aspects of design and development of medium format camera systems, central shutters and lenses.

According to Niels V. Knudsen, Phase One’s vice president of Innovation and Application Development, Phase One is now the only medium-format camera company that has full internal control of all critical components in a world-class imaging system. Makoto Honda, president of Phase One Japan, said Phase One Japan is committed to developing new and custom-designed masterpiece leaf shutter optics in close partnership with top photographers, imaging companies and long-term design partner Schneider Kreuznach.