1.5/50 ZM flare (or what is this?)

[firebird]

Why do I get this reflections/artifacts from my 1.5/50 ZM.

Any hints or ideas ?

It's mounted on a M7 and I do not see this phenonema with any other lens.

/G

 

[yoyo22]

It seems to be in the same position and similar in shape in every photograph, so imho it should not be a flare.
Probably a pinhole in a shutter curtain?

 

[Carlos Cruz]

Strange... those artifacts show up in the same place, and seem to have similar pattern,no matter what's the camera/lens position against the sun. Do all photos come from the same roll? Looks like burned shutter to me.

 

[xayraa33]

other than looking like a ufo that follows you around, it is not lens flare and looks like shutter curtain pin holes and cracks.

 

[firebird]

This only shows with this lens.

I guess it has to do with the combination lens/camera somehow.

 

[Nando]

Is the lens clean?

 

[dfoo]

Looks like a light leak of some sort to me. Probably in the curtain is previously said.

 

[mfogiel]

This cannot be flare - in two of these shots you have the sun over your shoulder. Most likely it is a hole in the curtain, or it could have been a hole in the film cassette. See if you get it with other films.

 

[firebird]

I tend to lean toward the "leak in the curtain" theory eventhough I thought I should have seen similar issues with other lenses as well.

It only shows with this combination of lens and body (regardless of film)