Some portrait lenses envelop a sharp subject with ethereal halos. Others can produce exaggerated blur rendition behind a sharp subject.
Here's an image made with a 180mm f/5.6 Fujinon SFS, a comparatively modern soft focus design which comes mounted in a modern shutter and will fit easily on your Zone V camera. (See brochure
here).
Wide open it gives a modest halo effect, but if we stop it down a bit the halos go away and we're left with a lens which transitions from sharp to soft more quickly than a typical lens.
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