Just announced on Sky News, Jessops (the UK Camera specialist store chain) has filed for administration and it has been accepted.

This is more bad news for the high-street, but I am surprised they managed to last as long as they have since the move from film to digital cameras. I always continued to try and support them but every time I went into one of their stores they never had what I wanted in stock, with the assistant saying order it from the website.. kind of making the physical stores redundant anyway.

I'm wondering if they will wind the whole company up, or restructure and downsize, either closing some of the stores or removing their physical high-street presence and remaining online.

It would be really sad to see them go completely, and it is bad to see stores for photography closing. You really do want to be able to handle and test DSLRs before buying.