Ajven
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I discovered a strange arc on last weekend's film - it was bright on the negative and only on some frames. Sometimes almost unrecognizable because of the picture background. Today I shot a test film with two lenses for all shutter speeds and the arc appears from 1/250 and as I expected is more enhanced at shorter exposure times. So I think this is 100% shutter defect. But what is strange to me is the shape on the negative. It's bright on the negative, so something must be blocking the light. The Pentax ME Super has vertically moving blades and I would expect some sort of horizontal or trapezoid stripe for the faulty blade(s). I have looked from the back and front of the shutter, but nothing wrong can be seen. Does anyone know how such a strange arc can occur during exposure?
Following images are DSLR scans of negatives (the last one is not desaturated)
Following images are DSLR scans of negatives (the last one is not desaturated)