On Dec 23, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > I'm sure. I don't know > about the first question, but I guess HOYA is largely regarded as a > company > marketing excellent photographic filters for consumers as well as > pro's.
Hoya today is a major player in the semiconductor equipment business, makes hard drive platters and heads, and a wide variety of products having nothing to do with optics. See: http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/sep2005/ pi20050912_6558_pi044.htm Also see this link for a list of Hoya subsidiary companies: http://www.hoya.co.jp/CACHE/english/group_content_group5.cfm And this one for USA optical glass: http://www.hoyaoptics.com/specialty_glass/optical.htm We're talking about a large and diversified company, one small part of which deals with optics, and Pentax will become a small part of that. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
