Service area
An independent lab in Orange, California.
We are one building in Orange County. Everything is scanned here, by the people who work here. That is the whole proposition, and it is the reason people who could mail their film somewhere cheaper choose to drive instead.
Dropping off in person.
Walking in involves the fewest handoffs of any delivery method. Your reels go from your hands to ours with nothing in between: no courier, no sorting facility, no warehouse. For irreplaceable originals that is the lowest-risk route that exists, and what to bring when you drop film off is worth a minute before you load the car.
We are open for walk-ins Mon to Fri, 9:00am to 4:30pm. Call ahead so someone is free to log your items in properly rather than in a hurry.
The lab
202 W Lincoln Ave, Suite A
Orange, CA 92865
Walk in Mon to Fri, 9:00am to 4:30pm. Call ahead so someone is free to log your items in properly.
Who we serve
Orange County
The lab is in Orange, off the 55 and the 22. Walk in, or call ahead and we will have someone free.
Los Angeles
An hour on a good day. Many people combine the trip with a visit and collect in person too.
San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino
A drive or a short ship. Either way the box stays inside Southern California.
If driving is not practical, shipping within Southern California is short, which matters: fewer miles and fewer transfers mean fewer opportunities for a box to go astray. Pack originals so they cannot shift, and tell us what is coming.
Who we work with.
Households across Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino, alongside schools, churches, historical societies and production companies. The same equipment and the same hands do both.
Format questions, such as what gauge a reel is or how a tape is captured, are answered in depth by our sibling sites: digitalfilmtransfer.com for 8mm and Super 8, 16mmfilmtransfer.com for 16mm, convertvideotapes.com for tape and weconvertslides.com for slides and prints.
Coming from further away?
Tell us where you are. If a drive is not sensible we will say so, and shipping a short distance is still shipping inside Southern California.