RB67 needs professional help

I’m leaving on a 3 week road trip tomorrow (don’t rob my house, there are still people in it) and since I haven’t been happy with the results, I wanted to run another test roll through my Mamiya RB67 to determine whether to bring it on the trip or not.

I taped up all the seams to prevent light leaks, put a hood on it, shot half the roll with an ND filter and half without. The results are just bad. There is a weird flaring issue through the center of the frame, and (after some discussion on Glass, thanks Carlos and Anton) what appears to be a sticky shutter. Maybe the shutter, which is a leaf shutter in the lens, is causing all the issues, maybe not. I don’t have time to test further. So Arby is staying home.

Here’s the entire roll. I actually love the result of the last frame, but the rest are mostly unusable. Even if they were all accidentally great is some way, I need my equipment to work predictably, so it’s going in the shop when I get back.