Hi,

I just acquire a Ciro-flex TLR with a Aphlax shutter. I'm very please with it. A real tank!

I decide to clean the ground glass and a discover a fresnel lens. I want to know if this fresnel is original to the camera?

Other thing, which is the order? The ground glass first and the fresnel or the inverse?

Thanks for the info,

Francis

I haven't and am not going to take mine apart, but..... if both were there then they possibally were factory. Handle the fresnel with care, fingerprints on the ribbed side are difficult to remove. To reassemble place ribbed side of fresnel to etched side of ground glass and install fresnel down/glass on top as you look into viewfinder.
Charles