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Photo Developing and Free Online Photo Albums
You can use the internet to get your photos developed and put online for free - then you choose the prints you like and only pay for those. Alternatively, if you have a digital camera, you can create a free online photo album of your photos to show family and friends and store your photos online. The internet also provides the opportunity to read consumer and magazine reviews of cameras online, as well as to purchase cameras from online shops. To start, take a look at our recommended sites below:
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UK Digital Photo Processing:
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Photobox UK
Offers free digital photo storage space than you can access from home, work or anywhere in the world. You can share your photos with friends and family and order prints of your digital photos. Also provides a range of photo gifts including customised photo calendars, mugs and more. In a comparison test of eight online printing services by Digital Camera magazine; photobox was rated best on test. The service was also rated 'Online Digital Laboratory of the Year 2003' by Amateur Photographer magazine. In a comparative survey of 18 online printing services photobox topped the rankings with the highest overall score.
Click here to visit Photobox.
Our Rating: 9/10.
Current Special Offers: Get 10 free prints - click here.
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myPIXmania
Offers digital prints on Fuji professional paper, delivered to your door in 72 hours. Register to take advantage of their 10 free prints offer. An interesting option is the happy hour between 5 and 6pm which offers a 30% discount on prices, bringing down the cost of prints to as little as 9p each.
Click here to visit myPIXmania.
Our Rating: Not yet tested.
Current Special Offers: Get 10 free prints - click here.
Free Online Photo Albums:
- Shutterfly
This is another site where you can create a free online photo album, although the emphasis here seems to be more on getting you to order prints. The site is US based, so ordering prints is not really a viable option for UK residents - however the site is clear and easy to use and therefore worth joining for the ability to create your free online photo album. Shutterfly offers some excellent image-editing tools. Click here to visit Shutterfly .
Our Rating: 8/10.
Free Offline Image Viewer:
- FlipAlbum
FlipAlbum™ is software that automatically organizes digital images into realistic page-flipping picture albums. It has everything you need to organize your digital photos, make powerful presentations, even email your pictures. Thumbnails of your pictures, table of contents and indexes are automatically generated to help you quickly locate your pictures. An image editor helps you to enhance your pictures and annotate your album pages. FlipAlbum can be downloaded free for a trial period.
Click here to visit FlipAlbum .
Our Rating: 9/10.
Photo Software:
- Picasa - free trial download
Picasa is a tool for organizing and sharing your photos. It provides instant Photo Albums, Picture Sharing, and Easy Editing. Includes easy editing tools like Crop, Remove Red-Eye and Enhance. The new Hello button lets you share one picture - or an entire album - in seconds.
Consumer reviews of cameras:
- Ciao.com
If you are looking to buy a new camera, this site offers you the opportunity to read consumer reviews from people who have bought the camera that you are thinking of buying. This is extremely useful, giving you the unbiased opinions of people who have actually used the camera - rather than the sales talk of the shop assistant! They have consumer reviews of thousands of other products and services too and you can also become a member (it's free) and submit your own opinions! Click here to visit Ciao UK.
Our Rating: 9/10.
Online Shopping for Digital Cameras and Accessories:
- John Lewis Technology Store
Their new technology store includes digital cameras and accessories; photo paper; scanners; Digital Camcorders and free Photo printing software to print your digital photos online.
- Amazon.co.uk
Amazon UK offers a wide selection of books on photography as well as
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with fast delivery and reasonable prices. They also offer very competitive prices on digital cameras and memory cards, with free UK delivery on orders over £25. For a good entry level digital camera, try the Canon A60 Digital Camera.
Customer service is excellent and choosing what to buy is made easier with customer reviews of the products posted on each page.
Click here to visit Amazon UK.
Our Rating: 9/10.
- 7DayShop
This web site has some great bargains on 35mm camera film as well as digital camera memory cards, rechargeable batteries, print frames for your photos and a wide selection of other photography related products. For SLR fans, they also now stock the Canon EF Lens range of zoom, fixed focal length and fisheye SLR Canon EF Lenses at good prices.
Click here to visit 7DayShop.
Our Rating: 9/10.
- Jessops Photography
Jessops is Europe’s leading specialist photographic retailer. Jessops photographic products includes cameras, camcorders, digital cameras, binoculars, and accessories. The Jessop site has nearly 20,000 products to choose from and offers the convenience of free delivery on UK and Ireland orders over £50. Voted “UK Photo Retailer of the Year” by readers of Practical Photography magazine.
Click here to visit Jessops UK.
Our Rating: 8/10.
- PicStop
Offers fast delivery and low prices on a range of products; including digital camera memory, ink cartridges, DVD R, digital cameras and accessories, disposable cameras and the latest mobile camera phones. Brands stocked include: Sony, Lexar, Sandisk, Integral, Dane-Elec, Olympus, Uniross, Integral, Samsung, Canon, Fuji, Ansmann, Hahnel, Nokia and Panasonic. PicStops a good place to buy digital camera memory cards - Compact Flash; SmartMedia; Secure Digital (SD); Multimedia (MMC); Sony Memory Stick and xD Picture Cards from Kingston memory, Fuji, Lexar and more.
Click here to visit PicStop.
Our Rating: 8/10.
Other useful links:
- BBC Webwise Guide to Digital Cameras
If you are new to digital photography, or are thinking of buying a digital camera, then read this excellent guide by Giles Turnbull. Topics include: An introduction to digital photography; What to look for in a digital camera; Taking and editing your pictures; as well as tips for getting the best results. Click here to read the article.
Our Rating: 9/10.
- The European Photographers Network
The European Photographers Network (EPN) is a project founded and maintened by Fredrik Mörk (Sweden) and Franz Waldhäusl (Austria). The goal of EPN is to provide a discussion platform for Photography in several European languages. Everybody is welcome to share their knowledge and to ask questions related to photography.
Click here to visit the The European Photographers Network.
Our Rating: 9/10.
- British Journal of Photography
BJP Online is the web edition of the British Journal of Photography - the world's longest established weekly photo mag, published since 1854. A nicely designed site with hundreds of pages of information aimed at professional photographers (but much of interest to amateurs too) and 2 free e-mail newsletters.
Click here to visit the British Journal of Photography.
Our Rating: 8/10.
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