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And Jessop shares just collapsed from 6p to 2p (with a brief low of 1.5p probably making some fat cats more fat cash) yesterday as they struggled with £60m of debt and a load of useless employees and rented outlets Gosh! Wow! Now I really wish I was trading the markets. That would be one nice fat p...

Lol, well all I can say is that you and I must have very different expectations of what a store should offer. ;) Hmm, yes perhaps :) I stopped by this Saturday just gone, and my initial hopes of entering a wonderland of photo gear were fairly quickly dismissed. Yes, they have shiny new cabinets. Wh...

I was recently fiddling with my old (and much loved) Sony R1 and it's beautiful Carl Zeiss lens. I then noticed something I had pretty much taken for granted. Namely, ZERO zoom creep from the lens (even if held facing downwards and shaken). Being the nerd I am, I decided to investigate how this was ...

I really hope that Jessops can survive the competition of the internet. I have been a customer for more than 22 years from the days when they had an big single-sheet pricelist that needed a magnifying glass to read. It was no trouble for them to get lenses into a store for you to look at and my loc...

Add one more American that's curious about this remark. I do babble, and I work on a psych ward, but I rarely combine the two. :lol: I think he's referring to the psychology used in in store layouts/design/ambience to get sales... BINGO!! Correct :-) And also referring to the psychology involved in...

Cool - I'm going to London next week (for pleasure, not business, so will have camera in hand) and will be sure to pop in and check it out. It's hard to believe, given that my local Jessops (Newcastle) is best described as a joke, understaffed with stressed, hurried assistants, precious little stoc...

More remarkable is not that Sony has reached this profile, but that Jessop - with a bag of cash from refinancing their massive loan burden - have rolled out a proper photo store in an attempt to rescue the Jessop brand. I remember once they had one - in Leicester... David Yeah, in my excitement I f...

Today, I went into the Jessops UK flagship store in Oxford Street, London for the first time since they completed the new interior layout/design. I was SHOCKED. Firstly, the layout looks really nice, spacious, stylish and all the cams for sale are tethered on display panels allowing potential buyers...

Following some findings about BF/FF and issues connected with using Dust-Aid sensor cleaning on the A100 (now not recommended by Dust-Aid, but for the wrong reasons) I should put out this warning - do not use Dust-Aid on 5D, 7D or A100. Do not use any cleaning system which involved firm pressure on...

..... what's the big deal about this RRS (Really Right Stuff) thingy? I mean, I have a Sony Tripod that enables me to mount my cam and position it in the portrait orientation. So what is this RRS thing gonna do for me that my Sony tripod can't? Am I missing something here? Can someone enlighten me. ...

New Alpha compatible flashgun. Looks similar to Nikon SB-400 Sunpak RD2000: http://www.intro2020.co.uk/pages/sunpak11.htm I don't have any indication as to price. Would be interested to hear your opinions on this new offering. My view is that it may make a nice compact entry level flashgun; although...

For all these complaints hurled against Sony's "battery grip," I should point out that it is a "vertical grip" as well, and offers better ergonomics than any other manufacturer's grips. It offers full reproduction of the controls and the shutter release is at the correct offset ...

Anyone know/heard of companies making a third party vertical grip for the Alpha A200? I've seen them for the A100, but nothing else. Try Ownuser third party grips, they look real cool ( can be used left or right handed ): http://www.ownuser.com.tw/e_a100_4.htm and http://www.ownuser.com.tw/e_index....

Anyone know/heard of companies making a third party vertical grip for the Alpha A200? I've seen them for the A100, but nothing else. Try Ownuser third party grips, they look real cool ( can be used left or right handed ): http://www.ownuser.com.tw/e_a100_4.htm and http://www.ownuser.com.tw/e_index....

Hi, Welcome :) Thanks for the preview images you posted. You may wish to post your raw samples to this online database of raw files from various cameras: http://raw.fotosite.pl/ (RAW photo from digital cameras (DSLRs) like Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus etc) Regards Good afternoon David Kilpatrick as...