As far as I'm aware, Pentax has always built lenses with optical glass that they bought from other sources, as well as possibly their own. The important part is the design and manufacturing, not who makes the glass, as long as the glass meets the spec.
G On Jan 29, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > As Hoya have been making glass for many lens manufacturing > companies, one > of which is Tokina, I wonder if the Hoya take over of the Pentax > coorporation will mean, that there's really no more (new) Pentax > glass? > Pentax will porobably (hopefully) be developing lenses and cameras, > but the > glass will be Hoya Pentax glass, right? > This does, however not have much to do with Tokina, except the > future Tokina > lenses (also) will be equiped with Hoya Pentax glass. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
