6x9 camera with Pre-Tessar lens?

[runswithsizzers]

Understood - you want something like the over-hyped "Petzval" look.
If you look at my tree example, the trunk of the tree is fairly detailed. It is just that I included so much image veiling flare in the image that there isn't much contrast.
Perhaps this is more of what you are looking for - courtesy of a 1939 vintage lens on a Zeiss Ikon 521-2:

Memorial Bench - October 2024

• MattKing
• Oct 30, 2024
• 1

A newly installed memorial bench facing toward one of my favorite sites in the North 40 Lands...

You should note, however, that the relatively limited depth of field is a major contributor to the outside of the main subject blur and character.

Yes, I like that one! However, I think I would be even happier if the effect were a little less obvious. Note taken about the wider apertures. I rarely shoot my Rolleicord at apertures less than f5.6, so that is an area I need to explore.

 

[blee1996]

I have a few 6x6/6x9 folders/tube/TLR cameras with triplet lens, and they render old school when wide open and relatively close.

 

[MattKing]

Yes, I like that one! However, I think I would be even happier if the effect were a little less obvious. Note taken about the wider apertures. I rarely shoot my Rolleicord at apertures less than f5.6, so that is an area I need to explore.

Not just wider apertures. That 105mm lens means less depth of field for the same aperture when compared with smaller formats.