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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
for quality for price
1. Ace Photo
44710 Cape Ct
Ashburn, VA
703-430-3333
235 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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2. Best Buy
All locations combined

380 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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3. Best Buy
4500 Wisconsin Ave NW
Washington, DC
202-895-1580
18 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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4. Best Buy
20914 Frederick Rd
Germantown, MD
240-686-1221
18 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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5. Best Buy
14160 Baltimore Ave
Laurel, MD
301-497-1890
25 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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6. Best Buy
1200 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD
301-984-1479
58 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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7. Best Buy
15750 Shady Grove Rd
Gaithersburg, MD
301-990-8839
37 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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8. Best Buy
13093 Gateway Center Dr
Gainesville, VA
571-248-4944
Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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9. Best Buy
1201 S Hayes St #B
Arlington, VA
703-414-7090
24 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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10. Best Buy
45575 Dulles Eastern Plz #188
Sterling, VA
703-430-2150
14 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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11. Best Buy
2730 Prince William Pkwy
Woodbridge, VA
703-490-7499
16 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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12. Best Buy
3401 Jefferson Davis Hwy
Alexandria, VA
703-519-0940
14 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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13. Best Buy
13058 Fair Lakes Pkwy
Fairfax, VA
703-631-3332
38 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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14. Best Buy
5799 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA
703-671-0184
33 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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15. Best Buy
1801 Fountain Dr
Reston, VA
703-787-3760
19 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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16. Best Buy
6555 Frontier Dr
Springfield, VA
703-922-4980
38 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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17. Costco
1200 S Fern St
Arlington, VA
703-413-2324
Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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18. Costco
4725 W Ox Rd
Fairfax, VA
703-802-1223
13 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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19. Dale Photo
810 N Fairfax St
Alexandria, VA
703-660-9533
13 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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20. Dominion Camera & Photo Lab
112 W Broad St #1
Falls Church, VA
703-532-6700
153 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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21. Embassy Camera Center
1735 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC
202-483-7448
33 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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22. Micro Center
3089 Nutley St
Fairfax, VA
703-204-8400
Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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23. Office Depot
5845 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA
703-379-0319
Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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24. Penn Camera Exchange
All locations combined

1968 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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25. Penn Camera Exchange
840 E St NW
Washington, DC
202-347-5777
201 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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26. Penn Camera Exchange
1015 18th St NW
Washington, DC
202-785-7366
116 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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27. Penn Camera Exchange
12266 Rockville Pike #F
Rockville, MD
301-231-7366
778 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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28. Penn Camera Exchange
352 Domer Ave
Laurel, MD
301-497-0001
130 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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29. Penn Camera Exchange
12967 Fair Lakes Shopping Ctr
Fairfax, VA
703-222-5690
Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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30. Penn Camera Exchange
8357 Leesburg Pike #E
Vienna, VA
703-893-7366
455 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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31. Penn Camera Exchange
6699 Frontier Dr #D
Springfield, VA
703-924-2425
236 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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32. Photo Craft
6025-C Burke Centre Pkwy
Burke, VA
703-250-5555
137 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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33. Pro Photo
1902 I St NW
Washington, DC
202-223-1292
30 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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34. Protech Photo
5710 General Washington Dr #E
Alexandria, VA
703-941-9100
25 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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35. Ritz Camera
All locations combined

1230 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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36. Ritz Camera
5221 Wisconsin Ave NW
Washington, DC
202-244-3800
51 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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37. Ritz Camera
1750 L St NW
Washington, DC
202-861-7710
50 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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38. Ritz Camera
1701 Rockville Pike #A16
Rockville, MD
301-230-8993
Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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39. Ritz Camera
3120 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd
Olney, MD
301-260-0404
45 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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40. Ritz Camera
14933 Shady Grove Rd
Rockville, MD
301-294-8515
49 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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41. Ritz Camera
9812 Falls Rd #107
Potomac, MD
301-299-5101
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42. Ritz Camera
7101 Democracy Blvd #1296
Bethesda, MD
301-365-3915
65 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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43. Ritz Camera
10737 Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD
301-592-0688
Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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44. Ritz Camera
7263 Elm St
Bethesda, MD
301-652-5646
39 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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45. Ritz Camera
5500 Buckeystown Pike #426
Frederick, MD
301-694-3282
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46. Ritz Camera
15630 Emerald Way
Bowie, MD
301-809-9643
13 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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47. Ritz Camera
11110 Moss Cir
Waldorf, MD
301-843-4900
12 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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48. Ritz Camera
10300 Little Patuxent Pkwy
Columbia, MD
410-997-3011
29 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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49. Ritz Camera
12225 Fair Lakes Promenade Dr
Fairfax, VA
703-278-9030
120 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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50. Ritz Camera
600 King St
Alexandria, VA
703-683-1194
30 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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51. Ritz Camera
8066 Tysons Corner Ctr
McLean, VA
703-893-7570
47 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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52. Strauss Photo Technical Services
1240 Mount Olivet Rd NE
Washington, DC
202-529-3200
18 ratings Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 43 local camera stores.
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Sample Subscriber Comments & Reviews for Camera Stores in the Washington DC Area
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).

As You Can See Below, Some Camera Stores Get High Praise from Their Customers.
Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.

Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments
CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Camera Stores.

  • Subscriber from BETHESDA, MD wrote about a local photo equipment store: best resource........
  • Subscriber from FALLS CHURCH, VA wrote about a local photo equipment store: Very customer friendly. Staff and owner go out of their way to be helpful. And..........
  • Subscriber from LEESBURG, VA wrote about a local photo equipment store: The staff goes out of their way to help and teach you. Very knowlegdable........
  • Subscriber from ALEXANDRIA, VA wrote about a local photo equipment store: We have purchase two cameras from this company because of the time they spent with..........
  • Subscriber from WASHINGTON, DC wrote about a local photo equipment store: They are knowledgeable, friendly and have good prices. Would use them again........
  • Subscriber from N BETHESDA, MD wrote about a local photo equipment store: Great place to buy a camera - no good reason to buy on-line........
  • Subscriber from KENSINGTON, MD wrote about a local photo equipment store: Not the cheapest, but otherwise terrific. Also, one of the few places that has a..........
  • Subscriber from BETHESDA, MD wrote about a local photo equipment store: Ive been going to Penn Camera in Tysons Corner for a few years. They consistently..........
  • Subscriber from ARLINGTON, VA wrote about a local photo equipment store: provide presonal attention--not part of a chain.......
  • Subscriber from ROCKVILLE, MD wrote about a local photo equipment store: They offer a very generous 14 day free trial on virtually all camera equipment. The..........
  • Subscriber from FAIRFAX, VA wrote about a local photo equipment store: When I went to Penn Camera to get my first digital camera, the staff seemed..........
  • Subscriber from SILVER SPRING, MD wrote about a local photo equipment store: A very knowledgeable staff and excellent product selection with competitive pricing.......
  • Subscriber from CLIFTON, VA wrote about a local photo equipment store: As a journalist, I depend on my cameras for my livelihood. A camera store that..........
  • Subscriber from OLNEY, MD wrote about a local photo equipment store: Personell very helpful in explaining/demonstrating what I needed to do to get my digital prints..........
  • Subscriber from SILVER SPRING, MD wrote about a local photo equipment store: A really helpful outfit........
  • Subscriber from WASHINGTON, DC wrote about a local photo equipment store: Excellent on all fronts!.......