George Ou from ZDNet talks about some issues he encountered with Vista's Photo Gallery.
I do not like the Photo Gallery that much myself, primarily because of those little things he mentioned, but I did not find it a big issue. I always used a third party application for my photos - Namely Nikon's PictureProject which came with my Nikon D40, and lately Adobe's Lightroom - which I find just plain beautiful.
The quirks in Vista's Photo Gallery are:
- Lack of support for RAW image formats. Camera manufacturers have the updates available on their sites - but according to George, Photo Gallery does prompt that the updates are available - but a click on a download button takes him somewhere else. I could not replicate this but maybe it's because I got the update from Nikon already.
- Images sometimes appear blurry if opened in the Photo Gallery or if they are shown in a slide show. I experienced this - and at first I thought I was the problem... It turns out Photo Gallery processes images for some reason first - probably to make them smaller and faster to load - which makes them blurry.
So all in all - Photo Gallery will be fine for pretty much anyone, but if you are using some higher end camera - you then know what you're doing and will definitely have some other applications to process your images in.
Source: ZDNet
