02/03/12 - 04:57 AM
Ray Cunneff says...
All film processing labs and film-related businesses are closing. Kodak is bankrupt and they’ll have to re-name the theater where the Oscars are awarded. Kodachrome, once the gold standard of photography, is no more. It’s all digital now.
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02/03/12 - 06:16 PM
AV Town Crier says...
The owners of King photo changed their business to an internet cafe/ebay store or something like that. It’s the same owner, just a new business model. AS Ray said, film is dead.
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02/03/12 - 11:53 PM
leonardpflemkin says...
Do they still service digital cameras? I used to go there for my camera repairs. They were good.
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02/03/12 - 11:53 PM
leonardpflemkin says...
Do they still service digital cameras? I used to go there for my camera repairs. They were good.
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02/04/12 - 01:22 AM
AV Town Crier says...
I don’t think so.
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02/04/12 - 03:25 AM
Grumpy says...
Yeah, kind of a bummer. They had a good run, but like Kodak itself it’s hard to make a radical switch in direction for any business. Trying to convert, say, a buggy whip business into a Taser manufacturer generally just doesn’t work.

We tend to assume something that worked so well yesterday will continue on forever, but as millions of American businessmen and there employees have discovered, it ain’t so.
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02/04/12 - 04:06 PM
Ditters says...
Ok, well my hubby has some slides from his time in Viet Nam, and wants to put them on a dvd. We’re so computer challange here, he took them to Walmart on 10th st West and know one knew how to do it. Any suggestions?
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02/04/12 - 05:53 PM
AV Town Crier says...
You can get a slide gizmo that you put on your scanner and it will scan them as jpg’s to your computer. From there you can copy them to a DVD.
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02/04/12 - 08:48 PM
leonardpflemkin says...
Here’s a crazy way that will work. Get a slide projector and a screen. Show the slides and take photos of them with your digital camera. They will be second generation images, but unless you have a really good slide scanner, you won’t get much better. Plus this will be faster.
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02/05/12 - 05:17 PM
AV Town Crier says...
Leonard
That will work too. But I suggest that you project the image as small as possible and get camera as close as possible. This will get the best resolution. If you’re projecting it on the wall, make sure it’s smooth with no patches and holes like in Leonard’s house (there are a lot of holes in his walls where his wife has thrown heavy objects at Leonard trying to get him to do his chores. So far, Leonard has been able to duck real quick, hence the holes in the wall.)
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02/05/12 - 05:21 PM
RealSteve says...
Or go to Amazon and spend around $80 for a slide to computer scanner.
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02/05/12 - 05:21 PM
roxi says...
Ha-
Actually slide-scanners that plug-in directly into your computer are not that expensive.
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02/08/12 - 07:56 PM
Ditters says...
Thank you so much guys, you’ve given us some great ideas!
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