Did not get all my photos back from the lab

[Horace]

Hi,

I shot a roll of 120 at 6x6, 12 shots, Rolleicord. After sending it out for development, I only got 10 shots back. This was my first attempt at medium format film. Last time I shot film was when I was like 12, and it was some point and shoot, automatic rewind, 35mm, the norm.

So was it something that I did wrong while shooting, like with the winding? The camera is all manual so I guess for someone like me a lot can go wrong.

Horace

 

[dxqcanada]

Umm, what do you mean by that ?
Did they not give you back the entire roll of developed film ?

 

[480sparky]

Perhaps 2 frames weren't capable of being printed. So they just didn't print them.

 

[xenskhe]

Maybe Horace you wound each frame a little too far past the number in the window each time and you didn't manage twelve exposures. Do you recall seeing frame #12 in the red window?

 

[bogeyguy]

Look at the negatives they returned and see if the images are there.

 

[Horace]

I think I realized what's wrong. I did not load the film correctly. The start line wasn't even shown in the back before I closed to cover, which means the first 2 shots were exposed on not functional surfaces of the film. Which means the current roll in the camera has the same problem.........sigh

 

[480sparky]

Don't feel bad. If you shoot film, you're gonna mess it up once in a while. All film shooters do.

 

[spiralout462]

I kind of expect a "half frame " or two on most rolls.

 

[john.margetts]

10 shots is not bad. Last time I used my Fed 2 I got zero pictures because some idiot left the lens cap on.

 

[DennisWilliams]

I have destroyed the better part of three different rolls over the years during processing and the lab killed a roll of E6 once but I have never (knock on wood) not exposed the film. With only 10 frames to the roll I can't lose out on even one frame.