[2][3][4] The company was founded in 1956 by Dwayne Steinle as a small film processing facility, but it quickly expanded to become one of the leading photo processors in the United States.
[1] Between 2000 and 2010, the business was affected by the decline in income because of widespread migration to digital photography, and by 2010 it had reduced its staffing levels from 200 to about 60.
[5] Dwayne's Photo announced that it would continue processing Kodachrome film, which was no longer manufactured by Kodak, until the end of December 2010.
[8] On July 14, 2010, Dwayne's announced[9] that the final roll of Kodachrome manufactured by Kodak was developed for Steve McCurry.
[5] Based upon the 2010 New York Times article about this event, in 2017 Mark Raso directed the film Kodachrome.