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Hoya Corporation (Hoya株式会社, Hōya Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company manufacturing optical products such as photomasks, photomask blanks and hard disk drive platters, contact lenses and eyeglass lenses for the health-care market, [4] medical photonics, [5] lasers, photographic filters, medical flexible endoscopy equipment, and ...
This is for companies who exclusively or predominantly create optical lenses for still and film photography. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
On August 6, 2007, Hoya completed a friendly public tender offer for Pentax and acquired 90.59% of the company. [7] On August 14, 2007, the company became a consolidated subsidiary of Hoya. On October 29, 2007, Hoya and Pentax announced that Pentax would merge with and into Hoya effective on March 31, 2008. [8]
Hoya is the world's second-largest eyeglass lens maker, with about 90% of its eyewear lens sales earned from outside of Japan, according to its latest annual report.
What set these cameras apart from earlier Pentax ones was the replacement of the M42 "universal" screw-lens mount with a proprietary bayonet mount system, known as the K mount. Still the basis for Pentax lenses and cameras today, the K mount offered greater convenience and enabled the production of faster lenses such as the 50 mm f /1.2. [17]
There is not a very clear distinguishing line between camera producers and lens producers; many companies do both, or have done both at one time or another. Some camera manufacturers sell lenses made by others as their own, in an OEM arrangement. Some camera makers design lenses but outsource manufacture. Some lens makers have cameras made to ...