strange light leaks in minolta TLR

[Michael I.]

Howdy,

I developed two films (steel tank, a little dodgy one 120 reel thingie) from my autocord (optiper shutter) and found strange light leaks on 1/3 of the frames. the "leaks" look like a bright streak in the middle of the frame form the upper left corner to the lower right and is not on the film edges(where the numbers are). I suspect these appear on the slower shutter speeds 1/30 and 1/15 but am not sure.

What can cause this?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[farlymac]

Looked at the Gallery, and checked out the Blog, but I don't see any shots of what you are talking about. Hard to guess what the problem is without seeing it.

Lots of good shots on both sites. Keep it up.

PF

 

[Steve M.]

Did this by any chance happen on the last shots on the roll? I had a similar thing happen once on a Rolleiflex, and it turned out that I had let the roll become loose when I took the exposed film out of the camera, and light got in and ruined the last few frames.

 

[Michael I.]

thanks for the replies!
i found the issue(a shutterblade got loose and leaked light) and sent the camera to CLA.

my gallery here is very outdated and I try to update the blog daily.

 

[Michael I.]

Karl Bryan ( karl.kathy@frontier.com ) is the gentleman overhauling my autocord.
He is a specialist on them, his prices and turnaround are more then fair.