Black on White

i went here with my friend who needed to get her unusual camera fixed after being silly enough to take it on a night out, and ended up dropping it on the Oceana dancefloor… classy!
We went to Black on White but were a bit apprehensive because of the name which invites so many dodgy images (just me?).
The little repair shop looked a bit rundown, but once inside we knew we were with people who knew their business well. There were about 4 repairmen hard at work and using all types of camera-​saving life forces were being used to bring cameras back to life.
Her camera was actually fixed in no time and at a very cheap price… probably becuase not much was wrong with it, but nevertheless we left very satisfied customers.

I first moved to Bristol all those years ago to pursue a career in photography. Still an avid photographer it is getting increasingly hard to find a good quality repair shop that really knows their stuff.
John Quantick is the man you need and Black on White is his shop. In appearance, it’s a little like those rooms between the Physics labs in school full of old fashioned hardware and pigeon holes — this is where prized heirlooms and memory keepers are brought back to health. Things can get a little steep but if the job isn’t done you don’t have to pay. I brought a Canon G9 down here recently and had the circuit board replaced and the camera serviced for about sixty quid.
This is also a good place to get any information you might need on the subject, many years of experience and knowledge having worked behind the counter and walked in through the doors.

This is an old style repair shop, the type of which you’re not likely to see very often these days. The shop is dimly lit, with a wooden counter that partitions the back workshop from the front end of the shop. I like looking into the workshop and seeing the vast array of kit they have, and the camera repairers always busy at work on some type of camera. I bought my old Leica camera in here to fix, and they were very willing to help, sorted out the problem speedily and away I went with a trigger happy camera. They’ve got a variety of specialist films if you’re a sucker for the old school way of things, so this is definitely a must see shop for anyone passionate about photography.