Why did only six pictures develop?
I just bought a Pentax k1000 and turned my film into CVS to be developed. When I went to pick it up today, only six out of the twenty-four pictures had developed? And when I look at the negative film strips, some are completely blank, and some of them are very light but still were not developed. Is this a problem with my camera or a mistake by CVS since there were indeed some very light pictures left on the film strip that were not developed? Can anyone help me as to why this happened and how to fix it? Thanks!
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It is very unlikely that it is problem with either with your camera or with CVS. It is more likely a problem with your knowledge of photography.
If the images on the negatives are very light then they are massively underexposed and if they are virtually black then they are overexposed.
You fix it by learning how to expose the images properly which means learning about photography and exactly how your camera works.
It's not likely to be a processing problem or yo would have had nothing. You either severely underexposed a lot of shots or your camera may be broken. Open the back of the camera (WITHOUT FILM) and start taking pictures while looking to see if you see through the lens every time. You can slow the shutter down to 1/15 sec for this. Try various apertures and make sure the lens is also working properly. If you take 50 shots like that and it works every time, then you probably crewed up your exposures.
The whole strip of film went into the process and got developed. Sadly, not all frames were exposed properly. That is your fault. Very light frames are overexposed - too much light. Dark frames are underexposed, too little light. If you used the lightmeter properly then stop doing so. Research on the Sunny f/16 Rule and use your eyes and brain instead of relying on the old and probably broken lightmeter.
It's not a problem with your camera. It's not a mistake by the processor. It's a problem with the only other possible player; the one you haven't mentioned or, apparently, considered: you. You are in control of the camera. It's fully manual. The mistakes are due to underexposure. You determined the exposure. The camera did what you told it to. You told it to do the wrong thing. You need to learn about the exposure triangle and how to read a light meter.
Shoot another full roll and take it in again.
When you say "blank" do you mean black or clear blank. Black would mean some kind of exposure to light. Clear would mean they didn't get exposed correctly or at all. Then it could be the camera/ or your adjustments on the camera.
Try going to a better film developer tha a drugstore.
Keerok. Otherway around. Clear light frame = underexposure. Thick dark frame = overexposure.
Anyway, It's not the developers fault. You need to learn how to use the light meter and expose properly. if it's not working get a had held meter.
Either camera's meter is not functioning correctly (check battery) or it's operator error. Since it is a totally manual camera, I'm leaning towards user error.