World Photo

This place is awesome, although I have only been in for passport photos (had to go twice) the second time I called to see what time they were closing, I called 5 minutes before they closed. He asked where I was at and told me that he would stay open until I got there. I soon arrived got my photo taken and was off. He was very very friendly! I highly recommend this place for all your photo needs!

Excellent service and fast processing of my C41 35 mm film negatives. I will come back for more.

The owner is extraordinarily helpful. We brought in 14 rolls of film and he gave us a discount — he ended up being the cheapest in town to develop film from our wedding !

I didn’t think I’d be able to find a professional photo lab near me, but luckily I was able to because of Unilocal!Took my first roll of 35 mm film here, and I’m very happy with the results. I had some problems of my own fault, and I didn’t think any photos would be salvaged, but thankfully I was able to get 17 prints out of 24. The quality of the prints is great, and the owner is kind and welcoming. He is very knowledgeable about cameras and is willing to help you out with any questions. The store has some film cameras for sale that I’d be interested in looking at in the future, and they also offer camera repairs. I’ll be coming back!

Good place to get film developed. Prints come out nice and they are ready in the same day.
The owner also has some film camera for sale.

This photo lab/​camera store is fantastic. I have never had anything short of a wonderful experience here and I’ve been coming here for years. SO many good things about this business:
–museum quality prints
–fast processing of film
–caring genuine customer service
–array of services and skills, things that a lot of bigger chain stores won’t do
–the owner has outstanding camera knowledge (any type of camera!)
–great prices
Definitely a great idea to make this your regular place for ANY photography needs

Im so happy i found this place! Thanks Unilocalers! The owner Setrak is such a kind man, he voluntarily taught me how to use my new (super old) film cameras, while he processed my first ever 35 mm film rolls (which were absolutely horrible) He even saved me money by not printing one roll which was so badly under exposed there wasn’t much to print.
I am looking forward to taking better shots this time around using this new knowledge he dropped on me. :-) Oh and he had them done the same day, within a few hours. I even bought a lens cap and camera strap for an awesome price!

I got my film processing done with excellent quality! Clean and professional with excellent products or any type of occasion that may require photo to make it a memorable experience! First class! Thank you!

I came in for pictures for my CPA.
The place is pretty small, but the guy is super nice. There was a couple of of people in there for a camera or something. The pictures came out a while later and they came out great!
A little expensive, but not bad. Great location when you just need to get it done.

Finally I can review my brother from another mother aka Mr. S as I call him. After hunting around to collect about 100 8×10 prints at not such an unreasonable cost I came across Mr.S. He had the best price in town, awesome customer service skills, legit editing skills, and was overall just a cool guy. If your looking to have high gloss or flat prints he’s your man. There are a plethora of other services offered dealing with photography for events and what not. For future business I will be sending a few of my much needed edits to him. Kudos player.

Worst photography service ever. What’s up with all the terrible photo stores in OC?
The two times I’ve been here, when you enter the store, NO ONE is at the front desk. Each time I had to yell out a loud HELLO before the shop owner popped out of his room that’s behind the counter. He doesn’t even greet you. He doesn’t even smile. He just stares at you and goes, «what?» I thought maybe his unfriendly demeanor is due to a cultural difference. But since he processed my photos within an hour the first time I went, I brushed off his cold attributes, since he got the job done (subpar though, more on that later).
But the second time – oh geez, not only did he NOT get the job done, he kept delaying the date to pick up my photos! I don’t know what the hell he’s doing in his little room behind the counter when he should be coming out to greet customers that enter the store. But he sure as heck isn’t processing any photo requests!
The second time I came to develop a film roll and scan them to a CD, I was told that the photos wouldn’t be ready in an hour because the machine was down and was going to be repaired that same day. And I saw that the machine behind the counter was down. So I asked if I could come in the next day, a Sunday. But the man says, «no, the pictures will be ready Tuesday.» I’m busy with work during the week, so I instead came a week later. I gave him a few extra days to process my film roll and scan them to a CD – but guess what, he still hadn’t finished my order! I could totally see that the film developing machine was up and running this time.
Then I ask him to return my film roll because I wanted to develop and scan it elsewhere. Then he says, «I charge you for developing.» And I said, what? And I see him grab one of the developed film rolls that was sitting wide open PRONE TO ALL OUTSIDE FLOATING SURROUNDING DUST and I see him just grabbing it with his bare hands so that not only DUST is on my film negatives, but also his dirty FINGERPRINTS. At this point, I should’ve just paid for my negatives and scan them elsewhere, but since he was almost done, I said, «okay, I’ll come back in an hour for you to scan them.»
But guess what he says again, «no, the pictures will be ready Tuesday.» Dude, it doesn’t take that long to scan! If I had a negative scanner I would’ve done it myself… but, I, for some stupid reason, just said, «Okay, I’ll be there MONDAY then.» But the old man again says, «No, I prefer Tuesday.» What’s up with his obsession of Tuesday?
So I come by and finally pick them up two weeks later, because I had a feeling he hadn’t scanned them by Tuesday. For all that delayed time, I expected a discount or something, but the shop owner just charges me the regular price. And effin’ ay, since the first time I had visited there, 5 – 6 months had gone by, and he was charging 2 dollars more. I paid over $ 11.
And for the poor quality of the images, the cost was totally not worth it! Remember how I mentioned he leaves the negatives out in the open and touches it with his bare hands? The scanned film negatives had lint marks, fingerprint smudges, and scratches all over when I viewed the images on my computer.
TL;DR
One Hour World Photo is actually a TWO WEEK World Photo, with nonexistent customer service and terrible care of film negatives and horrible image quality.

I have dealt with this company for a long time and was fairly satisfied, even when from one week to the next the prices kept changing despite I had a recent, existing price list hanging on my wall. Finally, confronting him, all he could say, playing ignoratnt was: «This is my price…»
Setrack Meguerditichian, and Owner convinced me of his book binding services. I was told it would take about one week to complete the binding orders once the photos were printed. According to his specs, the photos were designed by me to perfection, and he agreed on my production upon receiving the hi-resolution.jpg files I had provided.
What was supposed to have been one week finishing time, turned into months, and each time I asked, only perpetual petty excuses were offered, such as: «my son is out of town this week, ««they will be ready on Monday,» «tomorrow,» my son does all the binding,» and so the excuses continued. Tomorrow led to weeks and then to months.
I photographed a wedding in July of 2010, and this is now April of 2011.
Finally, and pathetically, I went in early April, after being informed that the albums were ready for pick up, the 10×10 bride and groom’s album, and the two parent albums.
The results:
First: the 10×10 bridal album was:
(1) out of order, (2) photos upside down and backwards in the mounting, and (3) missing photos.
I had personally made a special trip in order to put all the photos in the proper sequence, and since he has so many albums displayed, it was apparent he should have some knowledge of the order layout by this time; the cutting of the wedding cake obviously would not be the first photo, not to mention everything else was out of sequence, and even inexcusably mounted upside down and backwards!
Months had already elapsed to this point. A week ago, I went to pick up the final product, only to find that the two parent albums were all thoroughly screwed up as well!
Identical in size and page-​width, one of the books had a crumpling binding, and the proportions of the cover was longer than the other identical album by an over extending of ¾ inch!
Now, put yourself in this position and explain this to your client!
When I presented this, all I received in return was: «I do good work, there is nothing more I can do, I do not want to do this work any more. Perhaps they won’t notice anything.»
When I re-​emphasized the situation – the length of time, the constant phone calls, the ridiculous excuses, the anger of the bride on this issue, my anger – he then refused to remake or redo anything! Yet, he expected to be paid $ 450.00 for totally inferior slop workmanship, «Because I do good work,» and leaving me in a lurch, and telling me at this late date he wasn’t going to correct the issue, taking only the coward’s way out by saying: «I do not want to do this any more…»
When I interrogated him about the spine on the parent album his reply was that the glue was too strong and he did NOT have the time to redo the book, which, being a 1 hour photo place.
He even suggested that I squirt some glue down inside the binding, squeeze and hold it, and maybe that would make it secure.
Can you believe that nonsense? Now, wait until you read the discovery below!
Once I picked up all the books, I went to an associate who is in the book publishing business and has outside resources for binding. One of the parent albums that had the floating/​crooked spine, and was ¾ inch longer that the other «identical» album, we took a blade and pulled off the inside layer to see if we could stretch and even the binding.
In doing so, we discovered that there was no glue at all, as in all books, rather it was double-​face tape!
Since the cover was at least ¾ inch oversized to the other identical album, and the photos were irregularly trimmed before mounting, leaving white slanted borders on the top and bottom of each photograph, this only equates to slop and «I don’t give a crap attitude.»
People’s feelings and sentiments are the primary focus, and to encounter a heartless guy like Setrack is stretching the realms of patience.
So dear readers, if you were in this position, what would you feel, think?
If ever there were a situation of distress, I was always there for my client, situations where sudden and unforeseen deaths occurred, even at weddings, I made sure I had photos ready on time for the funeral services and never charged my client a cent, just out of respect and the sharing of their pain.
Likewise, 3 albums that should have taken 1 week, took months and the product is still not done correctly, along with the inept flack I have continually received from World Photo.
Bottom line, he isn’t the only guy out there, it is just a shame that he purposely violated my trust after the thousands of dollars I’ve sepent with him, and purposely ruining the life of one of my brides. He is unprofessional and uncaring and wants only his money.

I am a photography student. I spend a lot of time taking pictures, editing pictures and printing pictures. I go to the store two to three times a week. The owner is a very nice man. He is always so helpful and critiques my work. I am always looking for ways to improve. He even helps me with technical camera questions. I love the quality of his photos. I can’t wait to get the next batch. He has a lot of photo related gift ideas, does custom framing and has a wonderful portrait studio. I say go check it out. You will be pleased!!!

The owner here is an absolute sweetheart. I had about a hundred old projector slides and wanted them put onto a CD to have the prints available via computer and also get the photos printed. What usually takes a week, he did them for me in 2 days as it was a rush Mother’s Day gift. He’s very proud of his work and it shows. He showed me all the different things he was working on while I was there. You can see how passionate he is about this line of work. I will definitely come back!

After 2 failed attempts at getting my VHS onto DVD at other Fullerton Camera/​Photo shops… I found 1 hour World Photo. It’s close to my house and I’ve driven by many times. I didn’t have a need to stop and walk in until today. The owner was friendly and, because of the busy Christmas season, hesitated slightly to accommodate my unusual request but in the end agreed to help me out (my smile won him over, haha). He not only agreed to process my VHS-​DVD request, he did it SAME DAY!
I was SO elated that I ran home, grabbed up 9 more compact VHS tapes and brought them in to World Photo. I’m fiercely loyal and I love finding small businesses that care about their customers. I will bring my photo/​VHS projects to World Photo from now on. Great Customer Service, Speedy quick, that’s all I really needed and they delivered.
Hope fellow Unilocalers get the same 5 star service :) 3 cheers for the Mom and Pop shops, right!!!