Iskra light leak detectives?

[Brad Bireley]

The 1st few frames have a light leak that puzzles me. Could it be from not having the back on properly? The roll before this one has no leaks.
The 1st frame is the worst then they get better.

And another thing is I had one roll of film that was wound on backwards! When I removed the film it was backwards! And I know I put it in correctly. Any ideas?

Brad

 

[Joao]

Hi
If it is a leak and not only a light flare, there is something easy you can try: cover the front part of both film chambers with black paper; in some cases lightleaks seem to be related to reflections in those bright chrome pieces. I have seen this reported as a solution in some cases. Next step will be searching for a leak in the belows...
Wish you luck!
Joao

RF: Zork(1, 4), Fed(5, 2), Sokol (Automat, 2), Junost, Iskra, Kiev-4,
TLR: Komsomolyets, Lubitel (2, 166B), Flexaret
SLR: Zenit (3M, E, EM, ET, TTL, 12XP, 122K,19, Photosniper), Kiev-10, Olympus OM-2
Other: FED-50, Kiev35A, Smena (7, 8M), Estafeta

 

[rolleistef]

To detect light leaks you might put some photograhic paper in the film chamber and then process it, so as to see where those leaks exactly are. just an idea!

 

[Brad Bireley]

I just remembered that after loading the film & I started to photograph I realized that the film spool release knob(I guess that's what you call it) was not seated correctly. That's probably where the light had leaked in! Now if I can only figure out how one of the rolls of film got wound on backward!