If there is a Divisoria for clothes and almost all general merchandise, there is a Hidalgo Street for cameras and accessories. Prices here are significantly cheaper than when you buy in malls. I bought two cameras here and I saved around P4,000 or more each.
And this street does not just have camera shops, but really cheap street food, with pancit for P10. They also have kakanin like puto. There are stalls where you just order take-out or eat standing up, and there are stalls with makeshift wooden stools where you can sit while you eat.
There are also clothes stalls here - I saw some nice bolero vests for P100, and I would have bought one had it fit me.
Just be careful, though. It's ironic that that Quiapo, which is ripe for pickpocketing, is where Hidalgo Street is at. After I bought a camera, I immediately placed it in my backpack before going out of the store. I realized a guy was following us, though, as I wove through the food and clothes stalls. My companion had to stare straight at him to let him know that we knew he had been following us. He stopped shortly afterwards. read more