Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

Apple iPhone 4 camera vs. ClearCam. Click to enlarge.

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ClearCam
Version 1.5.5
Price: $1.99

Bottom Line: ClearCam definitely delivers on its claims of sharper, clearer larger images.

ClearCam by Occipital is a camera app that promises clearer, sharper and sometimes larger images from any iPhone. It claims to eliminate the blur without “missing the moment”. It does so without waiting for an anti-shake setting to kick in. It claims to take clearer, sharper pictures with twice the resolution in enhanced mode.

ClearCam makes a lot of big claims. Does it deliver on them? The answer is a resounding yes. ClearCam produces simply amazing photos rich in clarity and detail. There is nothing else like it in the App Store.

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On Twitter today, it’s #Follow Friday. Life In LoFi is also on Facebook and Twitter. Please follow us on both social networks.

Many of our contests and promo codes are given away on our Facebook fan page . There, we also post breaking iPhone photo news and announcements of free apps that don’t make it into the blog. And I promise we don’t update nearly as often as Mashable does….

On our Twitter feed , we post breaking announcements of new blog posts, app sales and freebies, news, retweets of awesome iPhoneography and the occasional very candid musings about apps that we don’t (or won’t) cover on the blog.

Here are the links to both pages:

Facebook/LifeInLoFi

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Thanks for reading and following!

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I was asked to post this email from Brad Malcolm, the President of Athentech, the developers of Perfectly Clear. I have posted it in its entirety, but first, I wanted to weigh in with my thoughts on this update.

Perfectly Clear has been one of my primary go-to apps for a while. It’s one of the apps that I recommend most to new iPhoneographers. It’s an essential app for the early iPhone 2G and 3G models and I still use it to improve images on my iPhone 4.

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Camera Prime, a new camera replacement app from Testut Tech, is FREE right now in the App Store. It’s a pretty full featured camera replacement, and this is a full version, not a feature-limited “lite” version. It’s not ad-supported, either. At first glance, it’s a decent camera replacement.

This is an introductory offer, so grab the app now before it goes up to it’s regular price.

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The 1.4 update for retro camera app lo-mob has been released. lo-mob is one of the premier retro filter apps available and it does an amazing job of recreating classic camera output and lo-fi photographic styles.

We previewed the version 1.4 update a few weeks ago, and this new release holds even a few more surprises.

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Photographed with an iPhone 4. Toolbox: Picture Show

Dayton, Ohio
July 15, 2010
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[UPDATED 09.01.10 15:08] Today was Apple’s September Event. Typically an iPod-centric event, there was plenty to please current and future iPhoneographers in today’s presentation. Today’s event was more than the traditional refreshing of the iPod line. The iPod Touch now gets not one, but two cameras — but not the high-resolution still camera that was the buzz of rumor sites.

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[UPDATED 8.31.10 @ 18:00]

We’ve got more on the Perfectly Clear 2.0 update, including a fix of sorts.

The Perfectly Clear 2.0 update is in the app store now, but use caution in updating to this version of the app at this time. It’s not as unstable as I initially feared, but it still needs a lot more coddling than an iPhone app should require in order to work. 

This release  seems to be less stable than previous versions and crashes on saving with older iPhones. If you have an iPhone 2G or 3G, I recommend not updating the app and sticking with the older version for now.

The crashes are confirmed on a 2G, 3G, and iPhone 4. The bottom line is that unlike previous versions which were pretty rock solid, the 2.0 version can be buggy on any iPhone.

Click past the jump to read more, to find out how to reduce or eliminate problems on an iPhone 4, and to find a link to instructions on how to get your previous working version back in case you already updated the app.

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