Ivey Photo shutters film lab
Store a victim of shift to digital photography; workers' futures uncertain

Ivey Photo, among the few Seattle photo labs still processing professional-grade film, will close its doors Monday, the latest victim of the massive shift to digital photography.

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Sad but not surprising. I remember when Ivey started out in the old Silver Image Gallery storefront on Washington Street in Pioneer Square in the late 1970s. By the early 1990s they were south of Lake Union and were huge. They had the first digital imaging lab in town. Ironic. Now, what they did very expensively, we all can do from the privacy of our very own computers. There is still Panda Lab. I see they finally have a website. It's under construction but it's there. They are quite a bit funkier than Ivey but they do what I need. Except for 5x7. It's been a while since I've been to Panda. I've been mailing off to another Lab. I think I need to make a run into Seattle for some film developing.