Mike, who owns Kurt's, is a retired Navy Photographer, with more than 30 years of training and experience working with both still and motion picture photography. Mike's career in camera repair began at the Navy School of Photography, and continued after leaving the Navy with extensive factory repair training on various cameras and lenses from industry leaders such as Nikon, Olympus, Minolta, Pentax, and Bronica. Mike is an expert on all medium format cameras and the newer digital cameras as well. Mike began working as a technician for Kurt's in 1996 after retiring from the Navy and became the owner in 1999.

Mario is a second generation repair technician; learning from his father beginning at the age of 17. He has more than 30 years of repair experience and has been with Kurt's since 2006. He has received training at the Nikon, Minolta and Canon Factory Service Centers and is considered an expert on the Canon, Nikon, Minolta and Pentax film Cameras. He has become an expert on digital SLR cameras as well. Mario takes care of all our customers' film projector repair needs as well.

Jim has more than 20 years of camera repair experience and is factory trained at both Minolta and Nikon factory service centers. Jim is expert with video cameras and digital SLR cameras. Jim initially joined the staff of Kurt's in 2004.

Kim also joined Kurt's in 2004, fulfilling an ever-growing segment of clients requiring the repair of compact digital cameras. Kim brings with him over 20 years experience in repair and is considered a true natural at the repair bench.

Roy began making money repairing cameras at the age of 17. Soon After high school Graduation, He began working at El Cajon camera repairing cameras in the small one man shop that was located in back of the store. Roy owned and operated his own repair shop, Metro Camera Repair, in the 1990's. Roy received training through National Camera and has over 30 years experience. Roy has been with Kurt's since 2007.

Ira has been repairing cameras first on the west coast and then on the east coast since the early 1980's. Now he is back in San Diego adding his expertise for film and digital point and shoots to the shop's already outstanding group of technicians. Also, Ira's years of experience with film SLRs has allowed him to easily move into repairing Digital SLRs. Ira joined Kurt's in 2008.

Mark is truly our multitask specialist as quality control, shipping and receiving and customer service manager. Mark's background of more than 30 years experience as a photographer working for newspapers and as a freelance photographer is an invaluable asset to Kurt's. Mark has been with Kurts since 1995.

David manages the parts department. He is tasked with researching and ordering parts and keeping commonly used parts in stock. David also does a great job helping out with Customer service. David started with Kurt's in 2008.

Vanessa manages the financial accounting. She also pitches in helping Mark and David with customer service. Vanessa joined Kurt's in 2009 and brought with her over 15 years of accounting and customer service experience.

Hannah is Mike's daughter and works part time at the shop helping with customer service and record keeping. She is currently attending SDSU as a freshman and is a crew member on the school's female rowing team.