"Flare?" spots on first roll..

[peadarceiteach]

New to me Canon IIa with a new Voigtlander 50mm 1.5. The camera is in excellent condition (at least as far as I can tell).
I loaded Kodak C-41 process B+W film and shot 24 tests - .
I had it processed at a local 1 hour outfit. Here's the thing that I need help on:
On just about every image - mostly in the same location - there are these little "flare?" type spots. On each image there are about two bright white spots. I had them run through a 1 hour lab - just an employee working the machines - and printed on color paper. Is there something wrong with the camera? A "leak" of some kind? Again, the camera looks pristine. Could it have been the processing?
Kindly offer your suggestions and advice. If I need to have the camera looked at, who do you recommend?
Thank you and Happy Holidays!
PC

 

[stesm]

Maybe holes in the shutter curtain, if the flare and spots are in the same place on every frame.

 

[lubitel]

it could be that the shutter (curtain?) has some holes in it. take off the lens open the back and look through to see if there are some tiny holes in the curtain.

 

[Ronald M]

Almost always this means a leak in the shutter. It can be so small you can not see them.

There are also other points where leaks can occur, but I am not a Contax expert

 

[VictorM.]

Sounds like pinholes in the shutter curtain. These are very hard to see in the bottom loader Canons. I used a fabric paint called Liquitex Mars Black to light proof one of the curtains in my Canon IIf. Using a small slightly stiff brush, apply a very thin coat of paint in the area where the pinhole seems to have occurred. Let dry for a day or so, then shoot a test roll (I use dollar store film processed and scanned cheaply-no prints-for this). Liquid rubber cement works well if you can pinpoint (ha ha) the pinholes. It needs about a week to dry completely.

 

[lmd91343]

Sounds like holes in the shutter curtain.

If they are near the edge of the frame and in a vertical line, it is the holes where the stitching goes about the metal stay at the end of the curtain. No amount of paint will fix that for more than a few rolls. I've tried. You will need a new curtain.

If the flare is dead center, it may have been burned by the sun. A small patch or paint (small burn hole) will work. It worked for me.

If the flare is not a well defined spot, but rather an area, the rubber has detached from the cloth. Paint will be a good work around. It has worked on one of my FED1s for 6 months.

If it is a spot, not centered or near the vertical edge, painting or patching may work. A patch worked for me.

Those are the four failure modes I've have encountered.

 

[peadarceiteach]

Thank you for the assistance. I've already contacted the seller and she has agreed to accept the camera back with a full refund. Sometimes these things are fortuitous as I found the viewfinder in the IIf much too small for my aging eye(s). On to a different mechanical. Happy Holidays!