Passport photos in Cambridge - Recommendations please?

George

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Jul 29, 2008, 2:59:28 PM7/29/08

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I looked in the Wiki and in past messages, and I can not see any recent
references. Can someone share any bad/good experience about where to get
photos professionally made for a UK passport? Thanks in advance.

George

sam.ho...@gmail.com

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Jul 29, 2008, 4:48:23 PM7/29/08

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Last lot I got done in Cambridge was in the little photo shop near the
St Andrew's St Lion Yard entrance. I'm not completely sure if the
shop's still there with all the recent changes in that area, but if it
is, they come recommended.

Sam

Roland Perry

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Jul 30, 2008, 3:28:44 AM7/30/08

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In message
<461ff250-ffb1-4ddc...@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, at
13:48:23 on Tue, 29 Jul 2008, sam.ho...@gmail.com remarked:

>> I looked in the Wiki and in past messages, and I can not see any recent
>> references. Can someone share any bad/good experience about where to get
>> photos professionally made for a UK passport? Thanks in advance.
>
>Last lot I got done in Cambridge was in the little photo shop near the
>St Andrew's St Lion Yard entrance.

Snappy Snaps.
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Roland Perry

sam.ho...@gmail.com

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Jul 30, 2008, 5:35:46 AM7/30/08

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On 30 Jul, 08:28, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
> In message
> <461ff250-ffb1-4ddc-8117-f8deed565...@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, at
> 13:48:23 on Tue, 29 Jul 2008, sam.hollo...@gmail.com remarked:

>
> >> I looked in the Wiki and in past messages, and I can not see any recent
> >> references. Can someone share any bad/good experience about where to get
> >> photos professionally made for a UK passport? Thanks in advance.
>
> >Last lot I got done in Cambridge was in the little photo shop near the
> >St Andrew's St Lion Yard entrance.
>
> Snappy Snaps.
> --
> Roland Perry

That's the one, thanks! That turns up http://www.snappysnaps-cambridge.co.uk/
so looks like they're still going. (I'm not sure why I thought they
wouldn't be, as that part of the landscape was one of the few not to
be bulldozed!)

Sam

Jon Green

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Jul 30, 2008, 5:53:09 AM7/30/08

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Same here, for the recommendation. They managed to do a good job of a
hyperactive 4-y-o girl and a 1.5-y-o boy who was having an angry day,
which wasn't bad going, by anyone's reckoning.

Jon
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Mike Clark

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Jul 30, 2008, 6:50:27 AM7/30/08

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In message <8NJjk.92151$oo.2...@newsfe09.ams2>
George <geo...@somewhere.earth> wrote:

Last time I needed some I simply walked into the Eden Lilly Photography
studio on Green Street and had them taken.

Mike
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Malcolm

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Jul 30, 2008, 6:55:54 AM7/30/08

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I was pleased with Jet (1a Botolph Lane), I don't think we were a
difficult case in the end.

Theo Markettos

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Jul 30, 2008, 2:11:49 PM7/30/08

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I took mine myself. Plugged the digicam into the telly so I could see what
I looked like, then snapped a load on selftimer. Picked one that met the
requirements, cropped and sized it, and took them to Jessops to be print a
dozen or two so I had a supply. The result was much better than the last
time, where the shop had a four-shots-in-one-go analogue camera and managed
to get me with one eye closed.

The passport agency accepted it no problem.

Theo

Cwatters

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Jul 30, 2008, 3:54:12 PM7/30/08

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"Theo Markettos" <theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
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I did that for my twins. No problem as long as your read the conditions
_very_ carefully. For example the first lot of photoprinter paper I tried
had faint printing/watermarks on the back.

anon

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Jul 30, 2008, 5:24:09 PM7/30/08

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Lots of replies recommending little places in central Cambridge that
are "oh so Cambridge".
Just go to the booth at Tesco.
Take you 5 mins as I did.
Passport came - no prob.

Colin Rosenstiel

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Jul 30, 2008, 5:27:00 PM7/30/08

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In article <nQD*5U...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Theo Markettos) wrote:

I got mine from a photo booth at King's Cross station, popped them into
the envelope and posted the renewal application there.

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Roland Perry

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Jul 31, 2008, 3:59:15 AM7/31/08

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In message <pqm1949u9rm5ahlb3...@4ax.com>, at 21:24:09 on
Wed, 30 Jul 2008, anon <an...@anon.com> remarked:

>Lots of replies recommending little places in central Cambridge that
>are "oh so Cambridge".

That's an odd way to describe a national chain like Snappy naps.

>Just go to the booth at Tesco.
>Take you 5 mins as I did.
>Passport came - no prob.

For UK passports that's fine, but some others (eg US Visa) require a
different kind of photo, so best to use somewhere like Snappy Snaps
which has experience of what they should be like.
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Paul Rudin

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Jul 31, 2008, 4:19:55 AM7/31/08

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Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> writes:

Or if you have a decent quality printer and digital camera (and good
quality paper and inks), it's really not that hard to do it yourself.

Roland Perry

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Jul 31, 2008, 6:44:37 AM7/31/08

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In message <87ljzi7...@rudin.co.uk>, at 09:19:55 on Thu, 31 Jul
2008, Paul Rudin <paul....@rudin.co.uk> remarked:

>> For UK passports that's fine, but some others (eg US Visa) require a
>> different kind of photo, so best to use somewhere like Snappy Snaps
>> which has experience of what they should be like.
>
>Or if you have a decent quality printer and digital camera (and good
>quality paper and inks), it's really not that hard to do it yourself.

Again, for well-known things like UK passport photos (although I find
that lighting the portrait is always the most difficult part).

But other photos have different criteria and sizes that aren't so well
known; and sometimes specifically mention that a home, or ink-jet,
picture is not acceptable.
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Roland Perry