ecently my eye has been caught by the appearance of a new lens, which seems to be quite a departure from the norm. The lens is the Voigtländer 50mm f/1.0 Nokton Aspherical, to give it it’s full title. Optically the design of this lens follows well-established patterns for such a fast lens. The front of the lens is a six-element double-gauss design, which could have been found in any, though not as ambitious, at least so far as the f-number is concerned.
