Petzval constructions, soft-focus, pictorialist... Whatever you wish for. Novelties from the mid-20th century, but also from the depths of the previous one. Back then, glass was more glassy and brass was more brassy. It wasn't the size and weight that mattered, but the character and bokeh... There's plenty of that here. Leave the pixel magnifiers at home and prepare for absolute perfect imperfection. These lenses don't take images, they draws them.

We can start with perhaps nothing else than one of the most famous lenses in history - the Heliar from the German company Voigtländer, first created in 1900, here in one of its many iterations in 360mm focal length and f4.5 aperture.