Comments on: Review: Griffin Clarifi for iPhone 3G

By: James

James — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:46:54 +0000

The sliding lens will scratch your iPhone. The solution is to place a piece of clear tape to the right of the lens the length (maybe a little more) of the slider. This will prevent scratching of the iphone itself.

I have had this case for a long while, and love it. I upgrade from 8gb to 16gb, and moved the case over. The lens comes in handy more often then you'd expect.

By: mp3 teledyski

mp3 teledyski — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:00:10 +0000

this is slightly frustrating, but far less frustrating that not having the case, moving in toward something you want to shoot and finding that it is absolutely impossible to get it into focus unless you back way out, until the subject is minuscule in the frame.

By: jerry

jerry — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:38:30 +0000

I don’t have this case till tomorow. but great blog man!

By: Charity

Charity — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:47:48 +0000

Bought mine after seeing my husband’s experiments with his own Clarifi case. I just started using Evernote, and the difference it makes in text recognition of photos is DRAMATIC. The only thing I would like is a belt clip on the back, but otherwise, only $22 (on Amazon) to make such a huge difference in photo quality? You can’t beat it with a stick!

By: striatic

striatic — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:13:34 +0000

unless you carry around a tape measure, you're going to end up sort of moving the camera toward what you're shooting, then pulling back, moving toward and pulling back until you find the sweet spot for focus.

By: striatic

striatic — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:09:04 +0000

"What’s the effective range of the macro lens?"

optimum distance to subject is 4 inches. the normal minimum distance is 18 inches.

one problem with the clarifi is that under 4 inches, things start getting blurry, and over 4 inches, things start getting blurry. generally speaking when you have the lens on, you want to stay within 3 to 8 inches of the subject or else the image becomes noticeably blurry.

this leaves a gap between ~8 and 18 inches that the clarifi doesn't address.

in practice, you just end up moving the camera a little closer, or pulling back to 18 inches and sliding off the lens. despite the gap, the case is still worth it.

By: Dave I

Dave I — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:08:16 +0000

I've been using the case since it came out. Everything about it is great.

Only con for myself: the sliding lens put a scratch on my iPhone. It occurred to the right of the camera, where the macro lens slides to when you don't want to use it.

By: Michael Manna

Michael Manna — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:38:53 +0000

Great review. My Clarifi has been my full-time case for a few months now. It’s great with expense apps that do photo receipts as well.

By: Squampton

Squampton — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:26:29 +0000

What’s the effective range of the macro lens?

By: striatic

striatic — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:02:34 +0000

oh, and i forgot to mention, this app works great with the snapper.net app:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=292448530&mt=8

disregard the reviews, they are probably from people forgetting to “move and scale” the images they take. it really does work well, in half decent light using the clarifi i can get the app to read the barcode every time.