Both wonderful and lame – Nikon Learn & Explore - photo tips, techniques and terms Review

This app accesses a lot of useful information: articles, tutorials, terrific photos; and it includes articles from Nikon World magazine. When viewing photos, you can rotate your phone or iPad to get a bigger view, and you can also do limited zoom. It keeps track of which articles you have read, and new articles are periodically added. You can mark photos or articles as Favorites. If you love photography, especially if you are a Nikon user, you want this app. Unfortunately, the app itself has issues and limitations. First, it is buggy and crashes a lot, more than any other app I am willing to use on a regular basis. Second, the photos are only viewable if you have an active wifi connection. Third, when you watch one of the app's videos, there is a large chance the app will crash, and if it doesn't crash, the video is only viewable in miniature, that is, in portrait view. Third, there is no iPad-native version, although you can tap the 2x button on your iPad to make everything bigger (and the photos are a lot nicer to view this way). Fourth, when you view a photo in landscape orientation, you can't access the additional info attached to the photo, nor can you go in one step back to the text of the accompanying article. Instead you have to rotate the idevice back to portrait orientation, then tap "Back" twice to get to the article. Fifth, you can only read in portrait orientation. Sixth, your favorite articles and photos may eventually disappear from the app when new ones are added. I give the content 5 stars, and the app itself 1 or 2 stars.
Review by martianfencer on Nikon Learn & Explore - photo tips, techniques and terms.