Over exposed flare.

Decided to take my old Olympus OM-F film camera out for a walk to compare film to digital photo quality.

Unfortunately 3 of the prints have this flare in the middle of the frame. This one was taken with a 28mm lens, and several were taken with a 18-70 mm OMF lens. The prints were not at the beginning of the roll. Frames 3a, 5a shown, and 19a have this flare to some degree. The camera has an auto-winder attached. The film was new iso 400 Kodak.

Any suggestion on what is causing this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Bob

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I am certainly not a pro and am working at learning the art so my thoughts may have absolutely no merit. My question is, did you have a lens hood on? Seems like I read that a lens hood helped to block stray light which could refract off parts of the glass. Perhaps that is something. Perhaps I should have stayed with my mantra, say nothing and be thought a fool, open your mouth and remove all doubt. Will be interesting to hear some of the experts opinion.

From the shadows, the sun was obviously to your back and slightly to the right and there are no bright lights in frame so I highly doubt that it is lens flare. Does the spike happen in the same place on the other pics? It looks to me that the camera has a horizontal shutter and that it might be sticking a bit, but it also might be a processing artifact as well.

I wonder if your camera back may be ever so slightly loose allowing the minutest amount of light in on the opening edge, and those three exposures were right at that point for some time, thus allowing them to be overexposed along that line before the frame was advanced..

Just a thought ...

PS, it ca be fixed, but it is better to find out why it happened in the firs place so it can not happen again.

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It looks like a light leak to me. Either in camera (most likely) or at the lab....

Thanks everyone for your helpful comments. I do think its a light leak. The film door moves slighty up and down. Will tape over door seams and shoot another roll.