Jacobs Digital Photo & Video

Jacobs were far more interested in taking my 600 pounds than they were in actually providing good customer service.
If it wasn’t for the fact they somehow had the best deal in both the real and digital world, I would only walk past and kick them from time to time.
Out of spite.
This is what you get these days. I’m spiteful, and camera stores are profiteering on the average consumer’s desire for an affordable DSLR with (bad) lens included for extra resolution on those friendface shots.
I have one of those for sale if anyone is interested. I am spiteful though, and have been known to kick out at shops, so I will probably only get 2 stars as well.

I don’t know what it is about camera shops these days, they used to stock hundreds of proper camera and lenses and serve people interested in photography, now they mostly sell compact digital cameras a couple of SLRs, half a dozen tripods and about a thousand overpriced bags from Lowepro. While I’m on the subject, why do people buy bags from Lowepro? Not only do they cost 4 times what they should but they also scream «I’ve got a an expensive camera and no street smarts come mug me!» to every pistolero, thief and miscreant within 500 miles of downtown Managua, Manilla, Moscow or most anywhere else the photonoob is off to make their art.
For a high street photographic shop, Jacobs isn’t bad, but that doesn’nt make it good really. It is however a lot more serious than Jessops which these days is as much of a photography shop as PCWorld or Halfords.
The staff in this branch are mostly helpful young peeps that don’t really know cameras from caravans and a helpful old bloke who seems to have a mental map of all the useful bits and bobs they don’t have on display at the front of the shop.
It’s OK, if you want to buy a mainstream SLR from Canon or Nikon or a snappy cam, but not if you want to find a really wide angle lens from Sigma or an 82 mm polarizing filter. They get the third star because they have very nice staff.