According to the latest announcement by Hoya Japan on October 29, Hoya has planned to completely disband Pentax, which is currently a whole subsidiary of the Hoya, by March 31 of 2008, i.e., by this financial year end:-http://www.hoya.co.jp/data/current/newsobj-487-pdf.pdf(Note: The announcement document is in Japanese)Update (Nov. 1): An English version of the announcement can be found here, at
