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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Who Rates Best (& Worst) in the Boston Area? Now You'll Know.

	Thinking of making the switch from film to digital? As with any major purchase, you'll want to make sure you get good advice so that you end up with the right camera for your needs, at a good price. Armed with our ratings of area stores and our price comparisons, the purchase should go smoothly. From Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK Magazine
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	Name	Number of ratings	Checkbook's top rating ()		What percent of customers rated firm "superior" on our survey for "overall quality"	Firm's price index score
	Name	Number of ratings	for quality	for price		Firm's price index score
1.	Anderson Photo 14 Walden St Concord, MA 978-369-9530	32 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
2.	Benner's Camera Shop 995 Main St Brockton, MA 508-583-1058	10 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
3.	Best Buy All locations combined	174 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
4.	Best Buy 769 Donald Lynch Blvd Marlborough, MA 508-486-9430		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
5.	Best Buy 1 Worcester Rd Framingham, MA 508-872-2223	29 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
6.	Best Buy 290 S Broadway Salem, NH 603-890-9002	16 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
7.	Best Buy 100 Cambridgeside Pl Cambridge, MA 617-577-8866	11 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
8.	Best Buy 550 Arsenal St #2 Watertown, MA 617-926-0009	14 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
9.	Best Buy 700 Providence Hwy Dedham, MA 781-461-6768	13 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
10.	Best Buy 101 Independence Mall Wy #C127 Kingston, MA 781-582-1486		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
11.	Best Buy 550 Grossman Dr Braintree, MA 781-848-1100	25 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
12.	Best Buy 230 Independence Way Danvers, MA 978-774-9494	37 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
13.	BJ's Wholesale Club All locations combined	11 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
14.	Bromfield Camera 10 Bromfield St Boston, MA 617-426-5230	35 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
15.	Calumet Photographic 65 Bent St Cambridge, MA 617-576-2600	24 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
16.	Camera Co 858 Providence Hwy Norwood, MA 781-769-0210	87 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
17.	Camera Place 24 Church St Wellesley, MA 781-235-3686	26 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
18.	Cameraland 211 Main St Nashua, NH 603-883-7911		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
19.	Cameras Inc 860 Massachusetts Ave Arlington, MA 781-648-8111	71 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
20.	Converse Photo Supply 12 N 6th St New Bedford, MA 508-992-3910	15 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
21.	Creative Camera & Frame 271 Great Rd Acton, MA 978-263-4847	18 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
22.	Hunt's Photo & Video 99 Mt Auburn St Cambridge, MA 617-576-0969	21 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
23.	Hunt's Photo & Video 520 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 617-778-2222		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
24.	Hunt's Photo & Video 100 Main St Melrose, MA 781-662-8822	299 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
25.	Micro Center 730 Memorial Dr Cambridge, MA 617-234-6400		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
26.	New England Photo 432 Massachusetts Ave Arlington, MA 781-643-1463	15 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
27.	Newtonville Camera & Video 249 Walnut St Newtonville, MA 617-965-1240	228 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
28.	Noble's Camera Shops 790 Chief Justice Cushing Hwy Cohasset, MA 781-383-9354		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
29.	Noble's Camera Shops 29 Main St Hingham, MA 781-749-0588	28 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
30.	Noble's Camera Shops 400 Lincoln St #2 Hingham, MA 781-749-0700	13 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
31.	Photo-Video Store 305 Boston Post Rd Wayland, MA 508-358-2115	13 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
32.	Ritz Camera All locations combined	339 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
33.	Ritz Camera 1245 Worcester Rd #2202 Natick, MA 508-655-8228	34 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
34.	Ritz Camera 999 Washington St Attleboro, MA 508-699-2895	13 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
35.	Ritz Camera 793 Iyannough Rd Hyannis, MA 508-771-0657		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
36.	Ritz Camera 99 Rockingham Park Blvd #275 Salem, NH 603-890-3364	12 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
37.	Ritz Camera 310 Daniel Webster Hwy #E-165 Nashua, NH 603-891-0033	20 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
38.	Ritz Camera 324 S Broadway Salem, NH 603-893-9671	14 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
39.	Ritz Camera 659 Boylston St Boston, MA 617-266-8931	14 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
40.	Ritz Camera 100 Cambridgeside Pl #204 Cambridge, MA 617-577-9252	18 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
41.	Ritz Camera 1350 Beacon St Brookline, MA 617-738-5090		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
42.	Ritz Camera 485 Arsenal St #B-11 Watertown, MA 617-926-9313	13 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
43.	Ritz Camera 75 Middlesex Tpke Burlington, MA 781-273-2929	13 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
44.	Ritz Camera 101 Indepedence Mall Way #B-116 Kingston, MA 781-582-2202	13 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
45.	Ritz Camera 92 Derby St #123 Hingham, MA 781-740-1891		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
46.	Ritz Camera 1775 Washington St #W105 Hanover, MA 781-826-5432		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
47.	Ritz Camera 250 Granite St #222 Braintree, MA 781-843-4619	22 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
48.	Ritz Camera 103 Commerce Way Woburn, MA 781-938-0236		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
49.	Ritz Camera 45 Storey Ave Newburyport, MA 978-462-5512	13 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
50.	Ritz Camera 210 Andover St Peabody, MA 978-531-7171	31 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
51.	Scorby's Camera Shop 1029 Great Plain Ave Needham, MA 781-444-8440	40 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
52.	Staples 120 Main St Weymouth, MA 781-340-6610		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
53.	Zeff Photo Supply 11 Brighton St Belmont, MA 617-489-3311	102 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 41 local camera stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.

Boston camera stores by neighborhood

MA
Camera Stores in Acton, MA	Camera Stores in Arlington, MA	Camera Stores in Attleboro, MA
Camera Stores in Belmont, MA	Camera Stores in Boston, MA	Camera Stores in Braintree, MA
Camera Stores in Brockton, MA	Camera Stores in Brookline, MA	Camera Stores in Burlington, MA
Camera Stores in Cambridge, MA	Camera Stores in Cohasset, MA	Camera Stores in Concord, MA
Camera Stores in Danvers, MA	Camera Stores in Dedham, MA	Camera Stores in Framingham, MA
Camera Stores in Hanover, MA	Camera Stores in Hingham, MA	Camera Stores in Hyannis, MA
Camera Stores in Kingston, MA	Camera Stores in Marlborough, MA	Camera Stores in Melrose, MA
Camera Stores in Natick, MA	Camera Stores in Needham, MA	Camera Stores in New Bedford, MA
Camera Stores in Newburyport, MA	Camera Stores in Newtonville, MA	Camera Stores in Norwood, MA
Camera Stores in Peabody, MA	Camera Stores in Watertown, MA	Camera Stores in Wayland, MA
Camera Stores in Wellesley, MA	Camera Stores in Weymouth, MA	Camera Stores in Woburn, MA
NH
Camera Stores in Nashua, NH	Camera Stores in Salem, NH

Subscriber Comments/Reviews

CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).

Subscriber from WEST ROXBURY, MA wrote about CAMERA CO, Norwood, MA on 09/16/09: Over 20 Years of super quality and service.......

Subscriber from MELROSE, MA wrote about HUNT'S PHOTO & VIDEO, Melrose, MA on 09/09/09: I bought a high end digital SLR camera and after searching on the internet found..........

Subscriber from QUINCY, MA wrote about CALUMET PHOTOGRAPHIC, Cambridge, MA on 08/21/09: The staff will spend a lot of time explaining the workings of a camera with..........

Subscriber from CHESTNUT HILL, MA wrote about NEWTONVILLE CAMERA & VIDEO, Newtonville, MA on 08/15/09: Good advice that I see as justifying the higher prices........

Subscriber from MEDFORD, MA wrote about CALUMET PHOTOGRAPHIC, Cambridge, MA on 08/17/08: Prices are competitive with mail-order, but the advantages of a store front........

Subscriber from MEDFORD, MA wrote about HUNT'S PHOTO & VIDEO, Melrose, MA on 08/17/08: They are a bit of a hard sell there. Their prices can be quite good,..........

Subscriber from WELLESLEY, MA wrote about SCORBY'S CAMERA SHOP, Needham, MA on 08/13/08: Great system for printing pictures from your disc. Easy to use software, reliable printing.......

Subscriber from NEWTON, MA wrote about NEWTONVILLE CAMERA & VIDEO, Newtonville, MA on 06/26/08: I have used them for many years. The attitude of the salespeople varies, but overall..........

Subscriber from FRAMINGHAM, MA wrote about NEWTONVILLE CAMERA & VIDEO, Newtonville, MA on 04/17/08: The in-store staff were a pain to deal with on both occasions I tried to..........

Subscriber from FRAMINGHAM, MA wrote about ZEFF PHOTO SUPPLY, Belmont, MA on 04/17/08: Pricey but with it........

Subscriber from MEDFIELD, MA wrote about CAMERA CO, Norwood, MA on 11/07/07: Prices are high with little sales/discounts........

Subscriber from WELLESLEY, MA wrote about HUNT'S PHOTO & VIDEO, Melrose, MA on 10/09/07: Were helpful in placing a special order for some specialized film products that I needed........

Subscriber from WELLESLEY, MA wrote about CALUMET PHOTOGRAPHIC, Cambridge, MA on 10/09/07: Still stocks some traditional film and darkroom products........

Subscriber from WOBURN, MA wrote about HUNT'S PHOTO & VIDEO, Melrose, MA on 07/05/07: Salespeople are not in your face, but you need to flag one down when needed...........

Subscriber from NATICK, MA wrote about RITZ CAMERA, Natick, MA on 10/25/06: Ritz now has a larger store at Natick Mall. I like going there because they..........

Subscriber from ACTON, MA wrote about ANDERSON PHOTO, Concord, MA on 10/11/06: They did a great job restoring old photos and helping me to frame them........

Subscriber from LEXINGTON, MA wrote about CAMERAS INC, Arlington, MA on 10/08/06: generally good job and good information delivery is available for large items.......

Subscriber from NEEDHAM, MA wrote about HUNT'S PHOTO & VIDEO, Melrose, MA on 10/07/06: I had trouble with a camera I purchased at Hunt's last spring. Took it back..........

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