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I've been thinking about this... I posted a link to a flare/multicoating historical article in the film camera section, I think the topic is Super or SMC or something like that.
Anyway, my thoughts, and I'll play around with this a bit: perhaps going only the sharpening route isn't the best way to a (vintage) leica look. USM at say 16% and a radius of 20+ should take care of the local contrast characteristics (maybe less radius actually) as this mimics the Leica lens design: the bump in contrast just above resolution limits.
Then, if there's a way to add a layer where you apply blur, or lens blur, to just highlights and mix that back into the image, you'd get a replicate of the Leica's less-coated behavior, the Leica Bloom thing.
I'd leave the overall tonality of the photo as smooth and wide as I could, though not necessarily all the way to the deepest black. At the end, sharpen .2 pixels and something like 160%.
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