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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2025 08:43
 
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Anyone have any experience of using Hoya lenses from back in the day?

There go for stupidly little money and I am looking for something period to go with the FM / FE

£15 +p&p




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chrisbet wrote:
Anyone have any experience of using Hoya lenses from back in the day?

There go for stupidly little money and I am looking for something period to go with the FM / FE

£15 +p&p




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Always used Hoya filters because of the optical quality but never tried their lenses. Can’t imagine they would be optically inferior to their filters.



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I can remember them being around but as they were not as good as Nikon lenses I never tried them.



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So many of the period Nikons are plagued with fungus but I have my eye on a couple of AI Nikons if they don't go for too much money - a Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5 AI-S and a Nikkor 70-210mm f/4.5-5.6 AI-S



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Not what you asked about, but TOKINA is rather good too, got a couple of those, a 70-210 ai-s and a 70-210 af of which the ai-s version is rather good, as usual at full tele setting drawing soft which can be cleaned up by using f8 or smaller,I find the AF version is not as good, they are also small and lightweight,and can be had in the price range that you mentioned.



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As far as I understand, most Hoya lenses are made by Tokina, who they bought in the 1980s. Certainly there are many visual similarities.



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chrisbet wrote:
As far as I understand, most Hoya lenses are made by Tokina, who they bought in the 1980s. Certainly there are many visual similarities.
I think that is correct but that is a distant memory!!



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