Camera Shops on New Oxford Street, W1

[Photodiva]

For the first time in AGES trolled by Jessops this morning. Boy has it changed. The pro area downstairs has gone, its all bridge and compacts by the look of it. And Jacobs opposite is gone. Shame. I preferred Jacobs. Now the best places for camera equipment are York Cameras on Great Russell Street, Aperture on Museum Street and Microglobe on Pied Bull Yard.

 

[terryt]

There's Cameraworld at Wells Street as well.

 

[Musicman]

There's Cameraworld at Wells Street as well.

+1

 

[simonblue]

I remember going back a few years,there were lots of them anyone remember Fox and their were a few more,forgot most of their names.

 

[Ian White]

Sadly Jacobs is now closed hopefuly they will get a backer and return to the high street
And to be honest i wont set foot in a Jessops store

Ian

 

[tezmed]

If you come out of jessops in oxford street and turn right and then take the first road on the road theres another specialist camera shop (calumet) down there also......

London camera exchange which used to be in the strand seems to have been moved over to edgeware road also

 

[Mr. Fish]

I normally go to Fixation in Vauxhall, very good shop there.

 

[T_J_G]

I recently went to London and was disappointed with the shops for cameras.

Went to Calumet (Euston Station) great if I wanted to view studio stuff close up but useless if I wanted to try a camera out.

Camera World - may as well been an online store to be honest

Jessops was the best with a 5d MkIII and a 7D plus various Nikons available to tinnker with (eith decent lenses I may add)

 

[JonathanRyan]

For the first time in AGES trolled by Jessops this morning. Boy has it changed. The pro area downstairs has gone, its all bridge and compacts by the look of it. And Jacobs opposite is gone.

IIRC it happened the other way round. The threat of Jacobs over the road was the only thing that kept decent kit in Jessops dungeon.

 

[Photodiva]

Calumet is down towards Soho, a fair trot for me at lunchtime. I only went to Jessops to buy some batteries for work. My fav haunts are around Bloomsbury. The Flash Centre is on the edge of the Brunswick Centre by Russell Square. Jessops just looks like Dixons - are they owned by the same company, by chance?

 

[Photodiva]

IIRC it happened the other way round. The threat of Jacobs over the road was the only thing that kept decent kit in Jessops dungeon.

I seem to remember that Jessops had a pro dept before Jacobs set up opposite - I've been around there for nigh on 20 years - omg! But Jacobs always seemed better, more knowledgeable, more stock etc.

 

[SixToes]

Camera World - may as well been an online store to be honest

That's not my experience with them, they've always been very helpful, letting me try out lenses and so on. In fact when I bought a second hand 70-300 IS and thought it might be broken because the IS was so noisy they let me compare it to one they had in store. Good guys.

 

[menthel]

If you come out of jessops in oxford street and turn right and then take the first road on the road theres another specialist camera shop (calumet) down there also......

London camera exchange which used to be in the strand seems to have been moved over to edgeware road also

LCE is still on the strand. Difficult to spot but deffo there under the scaffolding!

 

[freecom2]

LCE is still on the strand. Difficult to spot but deffo there under the scaffolding!

Despite having visited several times in the past, nearly came to the conclusion they'd moved as well because that scaffolding is so good at camouflage!

 

[mortimerhill]

Jessops just looks like Dixons - are they owned by the same company, by chance?

No separate companies; Jessops are owned by Snap Equity, which in turn is 47% owned by HSBC, 33% by pension trustees for the Jessops pension scheme and 20% by an employee trust.

Does Dixons even exist as a High St store anymore?

There is a company listed on the stock exchange called Dixons Retail, whose brands include Currys, PC World and Dixons Travel, the last being found in airports. It seems that Dixons have allowed the old Dixons High St brand to die.

 

[Photodiva]

No separate companies; Jessops are owned by Snap Equity, which in turn is 47% owned by HSBC, 33% by pension trustees for the Jessops pension scheme and 20% by an employee trust.

Does Dixons even exist as a High St store anymore?

There is a company listed on the stock exchange called Dixons Retail, whose brands include Currys, PC World and Dixons Travel, the last being found in airports. It seems that Dixons have allowed the old Dixons High St brand to die.

Ah, I guess Dixons is now PC World. I've cruised past at Bluewater. It used to be Dixons. Just the shop layout looks remarkably similar to Jessops!

 

[Musicman]

Dixons rebranded their high street shops as Currys Digital a couple of years ago. The Dixons name was retained for their online store.

PC World and Currys are also part of the DSG Group.