Very knowledgeable and helpful guys, the stuff is premium and is a long established independent…read moreshop up Mill Street. They can do passport photos, develop photos, and are happy to give advice. They sell lots of brands and a selection of frames as well. Check out their website http://www.peterrogers-photo.co.uk

From the owner: * Stafford's longest established wedding photographer. *…read moreCompact, SLR, and mirrorless digital cameras. * Passport, driving licence, visa & ID photography. * Portrait photography in our studio or on location. * Photo printing services including instant prints, canvas prints, photo books and photo gifts. * Old media including cine film & video transferred to DVD. * Old photos copied and restored.

Sometimes you have to diversify a bit, and Photo Express couples being a small place to get photos…read moredeveloped with being an internet café as well. Internet Café wise, there are five or six terminals with partitions so that people can't see what you're saying to your long-distance girlfriend on yahoo messenger. There's far more to say about the range of photography services Photo Express offer though. They provide wedding photography and filming services, as well as studio portraits. And if you're stuck and in a rush, it's worth noting that Photo Express will also do you six passport photos for £4 and you won't have to sit in a horrible booth interacting with an annoying machine in some horrible corner of a train station to get it done.

needed some photos for my driver's license and I found this place and went to Rushholme, they…read moretreated me very well, the photographer took two photos of which I chose one. And I loved the photos. and they are not expensive, a little more than the machines to take pictures. Excellent! I recommend it.

Despite the huge growth in digital photography over the past few years it's a surprise there's that…read moremany of these places left (akin to mobile phones and BT phone kiosks). However, printing at home is only occasionally successful, unless you carry it out in a professional context and is often expensive. Therefore places like Max Spielman can provide a value for money service should you wish to print out your myriad digi snaps. The world we live in has never been so visually documented as our current age, with every nook and cranny preserved (unless a crazy electro magnetic wave of energy wipes clean the worlds servers, hard drives and iBerry Text Phones - et al) for future historians to unravel our dirty laundry and look into our strange, repetitive behaviour. My neighbour, fairly averse to technology recently acquired his first digital camera. With no computer to check the pictures from his worldly travels he can now take in his 'SD card' or indeed whole camera and download the contents onto their printing machine. If you don't mind waiting a couple of days and you have quite a lot to print off, you can get a really decent price for your pictures (a tenner for 200 prints must be far, far cheaper than printing at home). I still use this shop because even though I use a digi cam, the quality is just nothing like the quality I can get on my 35mm SLR: therefore I can still (thankfully) take in my 35mm film to be printed off (within an hour if you're willing to pay a premium). A digital SLR is on my ever pulsating wish list. Aside from usual prints you can also purchase camera's, memory cards, picture frames and other associated photo paraphernalia. The service is really friendly and helpful. For the best part however my (35mm) prints seem to be a little disappointing quality wise: if you were to be further up the professional chain then I'd recommend looking at the more pro shops or get in touch with somebody with dark room facilities.

When I noticed that this shop was empty a couple of weeks ago, I was quite sad. Then I thought…read moreabout the last time I'd actually been into a photo shop, and I wasn't really surprised. However, this week I noticed that the shop had been re-decorated and had re-opened. It had always looked old fashioned and had advertised a 20 minute photo service, which in this day and age isn't really an attraction. Gone are the days when you couldn't wait 3 weeks for your holiday snaps to come back in the post so took them into a shop. Now we need a 20 second service or we'll just go online and order our prints for 2p each. Max Spielmann have finally caught up with the times and installed 2 brand new photo machines where you can put in your memory card and print your photos immediately. There is another screen where you can see what the staff are doing to your pics if you want to order coasters with your best friends' faces on, or a canvas of that arty photo you took in Thailand, for example. However, the main service that this little branch now seems to offer is the baby / child photo service. The window is now used to display massive posters with cute baby photos on, and you can see into the shop where there is a sheepskin blanket for your little ones to pose on. The best thing is that this service is free, although I suppose if you'd gone to that much effort then you'd feel obliged to purchase the snaps - a set starts at £5.99. I guess this may work in Chorlton where there are lots of young families, but with an abundance of arty types with posh SLRs, maybe they'd rather do it themselves? Only time will tell.

I was looking to get passport size photos clicked before the post office would shut and with my…read moreunfateful luck, Londis's photo both had stopped working! Then I was pointed towards a 5 minute walk along wilmslow road to find a photo studio and it was then that I stumbled upon Photo Point! Photo Point is a cute little photo studio doing all the edits, the printing and of course clicking of the photos that you want. The girl behind the counter was very friendly and cheerful (I know that cheerful has got nothing to do with the shop, but a cheery face always makes your moments nice and easy), and she very quickly took care of my plea. Within minutes I had the photographs in my hand and unlike the wretched photo boots which charge £4 for just 4 photos, this place gave 8 photos for just £6! So its double the amount for just 2 quid extra! My visit was delightful and I've mentioned this place to many by now, you're the next one!