The Nokton is a fast lens but, at the same time, it doesn't provide wide angles of view and is not optically complex. Its construction features 6 groups of lenses which means 12 air-to-glass surfaces. Taking different contemporary optical instruments into account it can hardly be called a huge challenge.
Despite that fact the Voigtlander failed completely when it comes to damping down unwanted reflections. The situation is especially bad near the maximum relative aperture – big, intensive light artifacts can be caught no matter whether the sun is inside the frame or you move it far away from the frame corners. It looks really hopeless – the presence of such distinct flares might suggest that somebody has forgotten to blacken the edges of elements at all. Voigtlander is a world renowned optical company and such a situation simply shouldn't have happened at all...
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