The Nokton comes so ursolide and therefore mechanically robust as an original Leitz optics. Nowhere game, solid latching of the bezel, soft focus, easy to read lettering - absolutely first class. I am also, however, succumbed to the temptation to use an imaginary for analog photography on film appearance in digital photography - using a μ4 / 3 adapter to an Olympus PEN or Panasonic GH1. That was wrong, because the demands on a digital optics are simply different than a movie for analog. Here, the resolution must be performed on a much smaller sensor surface and the light should be incident perpendicular to the sensor surface and preferably parallel. By design the Nokton this can only afford limited because in the KB-photography it is a wide-angle lenses and optics between normal focal length, its performance provides it best on the full frame. Therefore, in practice it showed on my μ4 / 3 cameras colored seams at strongly contrasting edges and the bokeh was pretty soggy. It may well be that these characteristics with a full-frame sensor of the Leica M9 not occur as the day to - to μ4 / 3 cameras the optics in my opinion, the highest for the black / white photography is interesting. Too bad, because this wonderful mechanical optical gem I have been very reluctant to back out of his hand. On a full frame digital camera I would however like to try again, and on film, I'm sure that it's an excellent working tool.
