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Crayola Digital Camcorder £12.95 @ Jessops

by Tamsin Oxford in Deals on 2 January, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Crayola Digital Camcorder £12.95 @ Jessops

This is a great price for the Crayola digital camcorder which sells on Amazon at the moment for over £25. You can nab it from Jessops for only £12.95 which is a great saving on an ace gadget for kids.

The Crayola digital camcorder is a fully operational digital recording device that comes with a 1.5 inch preview monitor, an SD card slot and a built-in microphone. The design is perfect for kids with the easy grip handle and robust materials.

This particular deal is exclusive to the Jessops online store and you can arrange to either collect it instore for free or you can organise for home delivery at a fairly decent charge, they don’t seem to expect you to pay the Earth for home delivery here.

The camera comes with video editing software as well as some games and stories that kids can enjoy when they are not using it to shoot embarrassing films of their parents. It does look like it is battery operated though, so be sure to get those in as well.

Thanks to Saintledger at HUKD!

25% Off All Photo Books @ Jessops Photo

by Sarah Macdonald in Deals on 10 December, 2011 at 9:00 am

25% Off All Photo Books @ Jessops PhotoI adore making photo books, I adore flicking through photo books and I'm sure you'll adore taking advantage of 25% off all photo books at Jessops Photo.

Photo books are just fabulous; they make fabulous personal gifts, they are a fabulous way for recording special memories or simply for keeping photographic records as the years go by.

There are six covers and eight sizes to choose from, you can have either glossy or matt pages in portrait or landscape and prices start from just £6.

If you're going to create a photo book to give as a Christmas gift then you'll need to make sure you get yourself sorted before the 14 December - that's when the 25% off all photo books offer expires and you must remember to enter the code RUDOLF into your basket.

You can either arrange to have your photo book delivered to your home, or you can collect them from your local Jessops store - all the various price options and delivery times are HERE.

Remember, this 25% off all photo books offer ends on 14 December - that's this coming Wednesday.

Thanks to missgem at HUKD

Hello Kitty Digital Camera £9.95 @ Jessops

by Tamsin Oxford in Deals on 5 May, 2011 at 6:00 pm

Hello Kitty Digital Camera £9.95 @ Jessops

Jessops is selling this adorable Hello Kitty digital camera for a mere £9.95 instead of the usual retail price of £39. That’s an extremely tasty saving of £29.05 for a cute little digital camera that has Hello Kitty’s image plastered all over it.

The Hello Kitty digital camera comes with an auto flash, a mono LCD screen that keeps you updated on the status of your shots, allows you to take up to 300 images on the internal memory of 8MB, and has an auto shut-off function and a self timer. The shut-off function is excellent for kids always forget that sort of thing.

The Hello Kitty digital camera comes with Picture Plus software so kids can make calendars, play games, create albums or photo cubes, they can even make their own puzzles and postcards using the free software. This is pretty awesome for kids, I think, even if the shots aren’t necessarily going to be front cover material.

This is a sweet little digital camera that is just perfect for Hello Kitty fans everywhere.

Thanks to themummysclub at HUKD!

Parents Freebie: 75 Free Prints From Jessops

by Tamsin Oxford in Freebies on 1 June, 2010 at 3:00 pm

Parents Freebie: 75 Free Prints From Jessops

If you’re anything like me then you probably have a ton of photos sitting on your computer in desperate need of sorting and printing. Well, this deal from Jessops should definitely come in handy for all of us! You can get 75 free 6x4” prints just by using the voucher code below.

To create your 6x4 print order online you are asked to download their software and use it to upload and manage your prints. The software isn’t very invasive and can be easily uninstalled if you’re not that keen on keeping it around.

If you do have a swathe of images lurking on your PC I really do recommend Picasa as a great way of sorting them out. I recently started using this free photo editing software and it’s so easy to use and manage and you can quickly whittle out the prints you like by adding a star.

Once you’ve sorted your images and uploaded them enter the voucher code 75WELCOME when ordering to receive your 75 free prints. I hope you have fun!

Review: Working With Your Photos

by Tamsin Oxford in Reviews on 4 May, 2010 at 1:30 pm

Review: Working With Your Photos

It is with some trepidation that I approach this review because my recent deal post had a lot of PlayPennies readers complaining about the cost of wall canvases. So I've reviewed both a professional canvas from Jessops and one from the suggested eBay shop, so read on, prepare your comments and let’s see what you think when I’m done.

Jessops Canvas 40cmx60cm

The cost of this canvas is £45 and it offers high UV resistance, 100 year manufacturer’s guarantee, a range of different wooden frames, supplied hanging fixtures and is printed using a 12 colour inkjet printer.

Review: Working With Your PhotosI have to admit that I was very impressed with what I could do for my £45. You don’t have to select just one image, you can also create a variety of different photo collages that don’t cost anything more to make. I chose to use my wedding photos and had one main black and white image, with three colour images running down the right-hand side.

Setting these up didn’t take long at all. This is the thing, you get to move the images around so they fit according to your likes or dislikes and you can easily add or remove images without having to upload them over and over again.  You also get a preview mode so you can see how your finished work will look before you commit to buy.

I timed myself while I was setting up, and it took me less than five minutes to upload the images I wanted to play with and about half an hour of playing around with positioning to get the exact look I wanted.

Review: Working With Your Photos

Now, back in the great Wallcreate debate, one of our helpful readers pointed out an eBay seller that does wall canvases for low prices. He’s selling 50.8cmx76.2cm (20”x30”) for £26.50 which is a low price for a huge canvas but without any of the frills you get with Jessops. I ordered one to compare with the Jessops frame I received.

The Jessops came out beautifully with my colours rich and defined and the excellent quality. The canvas grain is light and hardly visible from far away. The eBay canvas was more grainy for the same images (all very hi-res and taken by a professional photographer) but it is substantially bigger. In terms of impact, the colours of the Jessops won out but the enormity of the eBay was impressive. However, the first impression is that the Jessops canvas is more vivid and less grainy than the latter.

Review: Working With Your PhotosOverall, I have to say that I preferred the experience of using Jessops as it was a faultless ordering procedure and gave me far more control over the design and layout. This was, for me, worth the extra price and size limitations dictated by my budget. I now have a stunning reminder of my wedding that captures four different moods and moments, as opposed to just one.

And Finally

I am voting in favour of Jessops for quality and control, and I also discovered several other deals they have on their site that got me a photobook for less than a tenner (26 pages) that is just stunning. I will also confess to a bias towards the more professional touch when it comes to anything to do with photographic printing as I have been burnt several times using eBay. Overall the picture quality was better and I much preferred the options on offer from Jessops. Emma has also reviewed the canvas prints from Photobox if you want to compare.