With so many camera shops offering special online discounts, and lots of high street stores closing down, you'd think it would be tough for any independent camera shop to survive out there. But neither the online stores nor the chains (often staffed by amateurs) can replace family-run businesses like this, where you can ask technical questions and seek advice from experts, get into a proper conversation about what you want from a camera, and seek out old or hard-to-find camera parts or lenses.
Apart from selling a wide range of digital cameras, SLRs, camcorders, binoculars and telescopes, the shop also piles in plenty of photographic accessories such as tripods, flashguns, memory cards, camera bags, digital photo frames, and so on.
If you're after 1 hour printing or photo gifts, you'd probably just pop to Jessop's on Churchill Way - but for techie help or expert advice, Cardiff Camera Centre wins hands down. read more
