Getting Your Kid Into Digital Cameras

Advantages: Features Like Any Regular Digital Camera
Disadvantages: 16 MB Internal Memory and No Zoom Capabilities

...No digital camera review on CIAO would be complete without a few entries about cameras designed for kids. After all, kids are almost universally enthusiastic about taking pictures. And parents with a love of photography often pass down their passion to their children. But digital cameras are not always kid-friendly, due to fragile construction, price, or complicated menus and buttons. The newest trend in children's electronics is a group of digital cameras made especially for small children. These cameras are easy to hold, come in bright colors that kids love, and have many of the same features as grown-up digital cameras. Kids love them. The VTech KidiZoom Digital Camera is one of the top digital cameras for kids. This camera was made with fun in mind. Kids like the KidiZoom's large LCD screen and the onboard photo editing options...

bennyong 21.12.2008 · Read review
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JESSOPS - Another Viewpoint!

Advantages: Local. Get to see & touch most products. Polite. Helpful. Value.
Disadvantages: NONE.

...JESSOPS, like many retailers and high street based ones in particular, have been experiencing a particularly tough time in busines recently and yet, in 'my' local branch, MAIDSTONE in kent, they have always been very polite and extremely helpful. I wouldn't say that I am a regular customer. They certainly don't 'know' me and therefore do not give me any sort of 'preferential' treatment. However, whenever I do shop there, they seem to be very helpful and assist as much as is humanly possible in providing me with a good, fast, reliable and polite service with very good value for money. They have even assisted in pro-actively seeking out lowest 'price matches' and actually beating (not just matching), the best genuine advertised price for the items I have been considering purchasing. Of course, they cannot do so with foreign...

davecham 31.12.2008 · Read review
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Jessops Online Digital Camera Sale

Advantages: Excellent Value, Free Delivery, Nationwide Support
Disadvantages: None

...I have been searching many online retailers in order to find the best deal on a Fuji Finepix F700 Zoom Digital Camera. The majority of online retailers are charging over £200 for this camera, yet i found it in Jessops Sale for only £159.99. I decided to order online as the website offered free postage on the item. The website was easy to use and navigate and the checkout procedure was swift and smooth. I received email confirmation of the order and the checkout procedure equips you with a logon and password that allows you to view your order staus at any time. I placed the order on Tue 28 Dec 04 and the camera arrive at 8am on The 30 Dec 04 by registered courier. Additionally, once registered, the website offers excellent step by step guides on not only taking digital photographs, but also altering and enhancing them using...

Dive_Master 30.12.2004 · Read review
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Jessops in-store digital photo printing

Advantages: good choice of photo sizes, good prices for next day printing
Disadvantages: no instant printing (at least one hour for most items)

...This review is specifically about the Doncaster and Sheffield branches of Jessops but should be attributable to any branch with in-store developing kiosks. My experience of the in-store developing from digital media is very good. The Jessops branches that I use have a bank of touch screen machines (kiosks) for you to develop your digital pictures. Each store has several such machines so you never have long to wait (if at all) to use one. The machines take a wide variety of memory cards from your digital camera or will accept pictures on CD. The machines will even allow you to develop pictures on more than one card in the same transaction. When you insert your card/CD the machine will scan it and display on screen each photo that is contained on it. You then just need to choose which ones you want printing, how many copies...

dpw22 29.07.2008 · Read review
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My Jessops Experience

Advantages: Willing to Haggle, Excellent Service All Round.
Disadvantages: None

...As a last minute idea for a Christmas present for my good lady, I decided to get her a Digital Camera. She has been wanting one for ages ever since using one at work and bringing home the pictures to show off and exclaim constantly how much we should have one, how much we need one and how ?crap? our 35mm camera is in comparison. The Homework ? Well I thought about it and as I am starting to get the hang of Ciao I thought this should be my first port of call. I found some very helpful reviews on the range of digital cameras that I had in mind and so had a base to work from when I started looking for prices. I have a friend who does a lot of Digital Photography and he pointed me in the direction of Jessops so I paid a visit to their Web site. The camera I decided upon was the Canon A40 (review coming up after Christmas) It is...

mr.wibble 23.12.2002 · Read review
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My experience of Jessops.

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: You can't go back and take those photographs again

...Stop! Don't do it! Don't take that roll of holiday/baby's first birthday/nan and grandad's wedding anniversary film to Jessops. I'll tell you why. I used to work in Jessops (post graduating, loans up to my elbows and those necessary bills to pay, then your dignity has to tumble), and although I have fond memories of my time there, I plead with you to think twice before you pop into your local store to get your films developed. When I first joined, I believed that I would be working for a professional company (I had my degree show pictures developed and enlarged with Jessops, after losing a few films at Boots, and they were perfect), but my experience as a consumer with them was prior to a change in management and a change in shop priorities. I was working at one of their leading stores (no names, no addresses), supposedly...

peel.rebekah 27.02.2001 (25.03.2001) · Read review
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Jessops photo developing

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Very poor quality prints

...In the past I have been happy with Jessops developing my films, but having recently had two films developed at the Cambridge branch I wont be going back again. Both films had a significant number of prints with white lines on one edge because the machine had either mis-cut or mis-printed them. On closer inspection I also noted that EVERY print had cropped a significant area (at least 10%) from around the edge of the photo (c.f. the negatives). On complaining the shop agreed to reprint the films for the white lines, but dismissed my other complaint ("oh yes we do crop film prints" - well thanks!!!) The sets of reprints were incomplete. Therefore they had to do the missing photos again. When they came back, some of them exhibited white lines again, exactly the same as the first time (contrary to the shop's excuse that something...

BlackBushChris 17.09.2008 · Read review
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SHOCKING SERVICE FROM JESSOPS

Advantages: Wide range of goods
Disadvantages: Poor customer service

...I bought a Fujitsu Siemans laptop £1199.99 from Jessops. It was always faulty. I received shoddy servicing from Fujitsu Siemans on 3 occasions. The laptop burned out after the 3rd. The laptop was damaged due to an error in the 2nd service, and returned to me after further servicing, posing a fire risk in my home. Jessops said it should have been a third party sale, delivered to my home and not the shop. Jessops letter... average lifespan of a laptop 60 months, divide £1199.99 by 60 = £19.99 x 26 months usage = £520.00 = partial refund of £679.99. Laptop to be collected, then payment by cheque. I contacted Barclaycard for a refund of £1199.99 since I have Fujitsu Siemans 3 service reports, and an independent PC engineers report stating the motherboard was always faulty. Components were replaced , on each service, the laptop was further...

JNicolson 27.11.2008 · Read review
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Jessops photo CD made my scanner obsolete

Advantages: Five different sizes for each photograph
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

...I've just taken delivery of a CD containing my latest set of photographs, and although I've always liked Jessops, they've gone up even more in my estimation. What did I get exactly? Well, I took in two rolls of APS film, 25 exposures on each, and I handed over £11.99 per film and got back the usual negatives, prints and index prints, but also a CD containing both sets of photographs, each picture in five different sizes, large, medium, small, thumbnail and tiny - 250 graphics files in all. I was wary of trying this because a friend of mine had recently had a Kodak photo CD and was very disappointed that the photographs were in Kodak's proprietary graphic file format, requiring the download of special drivers from the Microsoft website before he could use them in MS software, and even then, he still couldn't get them into...

tomc 09.04.2001 · Read review
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see what develops at Jessops.....

Advantages: good prices, photos come out well
Disadvantages: poor customer service and staff who don't know their cameras in my local branch, not enough staff and rude

...Jessops was founded in 1935 and is now the UK's largest photographic retailer. There are now more than 290 stores nationwide and the whole groups turns over in excess of £320 million. They have stores on the high street and they also have a website which you can browse and order from. Jessops sell a wide range of cameras and video cameras -both digital and film and offer a huge selection of accessories and memory cards etc. They also offer develpoing on both film and digital camera prints. Basically its the one stop shop for all your photographic needs. Some of the larger stores also sell second hand cameras etc for if you are on a tighter budget or want to try something out. The rest of my review focuses on my most local branch in Kettering. The shop is situated on the main shopping street in the town centre and is pretty...

little_miss_sunshine1982 13.07.2006 · Read review
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