Taken on 4x5 with an unidentified brass lens wide open.
It took me many years to find an old lens that wasn't tack sharp and had the classic pictorial look. No swirly corners, no sharp center fading at the edges, and nice smooth bokeh. I think it has almost a pinhole effect but at f/11! Work print toned in thiocarbamide.
Yes, just the lens. Probably why it was so hard to find one. I have a pair of negs taken along a creek. One was with this lens and the other was a pinhole (f/360). The only easy way to tell them apart is the effect of the running water due to the vast difference in exposure time. To me, what separates this lens from a lot of the soft portrait lenses is that the effects are consistent across the field of view. I just wish it was marked so that I could learn about its history.