ATK Galleria (0)
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| Status: |
Current Member for over 2 months (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
TBP/PU discounted price of $19.95
Sign up through CC Bill, no pre-checked cross sells, no regional pricing and easy cancellation.
Huge collection dating back to 2006; over 12,000 videos, 28,000 photo sets (3.5 million images) and over 2800 models shot by 96 different photographers.
Since 2011 photo sets available to view and download in zips in 3 different sizes, High Res 2000x3000, Medium Res 1064x1600 and Standard Res 682x1024.
Most recent videos come with 3 streaming and download options, HD 1920x1080p 6000k, SD 852 x480 2000k and Mobile 852x480 700k, all are MP4 files.
Usually 7 new photo sets added on 5 days a week and 7 new videos on the other 2 days so typically you get 35 new photo sets and 14 new videos per week.
Good download speeds (90% of the time), typically I was getting 4 MB/s.
No problems using D/L manager, I used Down Them All in Firefox.
You can rate the models and add comments. |
| Cons: |
Photo and video resolutions reduce as you go back in time to 2010 and before.
The site seems to suffer from more technical problems than your average pay site.
Content can become a bit repetitive for the simple fact that there's just so much of it.
If you're not into solo content you will probably be losing interest in Galleria as it's been a year since they last added any lesbian scenes and I can only find 3 B/G scenes added in the last year.
Hardly any diversity amongst the models, they are nearly all white, aged 18-25, slim and either shaved or trimmed.
Old content has been removed from the site.
My pet hate, file naming of zips. Any model with photo sets dated before 2011 her photo zip downloads will all have the same file name so renaming required. Thankfully the file naming structure improved after 2011 with the introduction of the 3 different size options. |
| Bottom Line: |
My last visit to ATK Galleria was way back in late 2006 and it was a site I kind of had mixed feelings about back then; whilst they had had a wonderful collection of models and photo sets they seemed to be lagging behind most other sites back then with photo resolutions maxing at 1024 px long end which was small even for 2006 and you could invariably find some of the same photo sets in larger resolution on sites like Teen Dreams and Babelicious back then. Although Galleria has been online since the late 1990s I see that 95% of all the photo sets I downloaded back in 2006 are no longer on the site, removed I presume to resurface on their ATK Archives site. They must be the only site that expect you to pay out for an extra subscription to view their older lower resolution content.
I'm not convinced that the site layout today is much different to what I remember back in 2006, it looks a little dated by today's standards although I have to admit I'm not a big fan of some of these flashy modern site designs with their infinite scrolling. I like to browse a site by the model index and this worked well for me here, just select model directory at the top of the page and select the letter of the alphabet from the drop down menu. When I clicked on a model I really liked how the photo sets, movies and bio were displayed in separate tabs making it easy for me to go straight to the photo sets. You can also browse by latest updates from newest to oldest, there are over a thousand pages though and you can only jump ahead or back 5 pages at a time from the first or last page. You can also browse just photos or movies. The photo sets are grouped in to softcore and hardcore galleries according to their themes some of which include Coeds, Uniforms, Lingerie, Amateurs, Upskirts & Panties in the softcore section and themes such as Masturbation, Toys, Foot Fetish, Watersports, Blowjob, Lesbian and Action in the hardcore section. There's also an advanced search and a tag search but this is by no means comprehensive as they only started adding tags in the last few years.
The models are mostly 18 to mid 20s and typically have the cute girl next door look, I suspect many of them are amateurs or first timers here. It's a great site for discovering new models you've likely not seen anywhere else before and they are regularly adding new models every week. When a new model is added you will often get anything up to 10 photo sets of her added within a couple of weeks. Most of the new updates these days are coming from 3 main content producers, BMB, GBP & JSP and as a result the photo sets can become rather repetitive because you get shoot after shoot in the same rooms with the same backgrounds in what I presume are the homes of the photographers. There's very few outdoor sets added these days. If you want to see gorgeous girls photographed against a backdrop of stunning coastal scenery, mountains or walking through pine forests better to join Met Art or Femjoy.
Most of the video updates these days fall in to the Masturbation or Toys category. Sometimes when a new model is added you can see her do an interview video. Most videos run about 10 to 20 minutes. None of the videos I've watched so far have any annoying background music thankfully and I have to admit I've not watched that many. I'm not a great fan of solo masturbation videos and there's a limit to how many I can watch before boredom sets in.
Overall I would say this is probably one of my favourite sites now that the photo resolution has reached a fairly respectable size and I particularly love their uniform and upskirt themed content. The only thing that spoiled the enjoyment a bit were the persistent technical problems that the site seems to suffer from. At one point during my second month of membership I was on the verge of quitting the site due to the constant 400 errors I was getting and the constant need to refresh download links and pages. That problem went on for over 2 weeks before it finally got fixed. There is so much to see that you could probably not do the site justice in 1 month. After 3 months and a terabyte of downloads I'm just about done, it will probably take me another year to view it all now. |
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