Please forgive me if this posting is not appropriate.
I have just fallen in love and purchased with a Thornton Pickard
camera "Triple Victo" with a "Bausch's Rapid Symmetrical" lens.
It is a bit tatty and needs a good scrub up.

I bought an 8x10 camera mainly for its shutter and it came with a 6"
Metrogon.  Boy, is this lens impressively SIMPLE! And not very sharp, but
then it has no diaphram aperture so I'm judging it wide-open and it's fixed
upon Infinity.

In a discussion here about resolution/depth of field/diffraction/MTF,
etc., someone ("Scott W.", I think) made a claim that I find hard to
accept, based on my (admittedly limited) knowledge of things optical: he
says (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong) that a large-format lens ...

You know the problem. Your images and photos on your website are
accessible to everyone.
After a while your property is being used by others in their homepages,
forum or in newsgroups.

FYI
From Surplus Shed:
Metrogon lenses are a 4 element design with very strong curved meniscus
lens elements covering around a 90 degree field. They are used in aerial