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camHoodie is Lens Hood for the iPhone and iPad mini to Reduce Lens Flare and Purple Haze

November 14, 2012 By Eric Reagan

camHoodie case

Earlier this week, I shared a new app from Perfectly Clear that uses a De-Purple filter to effectively desaturate the purple flare and haze encountered on the iPhone 5.  Fotodiox has a hardware solution, the camHoodie, which is a lens hood for the iPhone 5, 4S and 4, as well as the iPad mini to cut down on lens flare before it ever enters your images. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: camHoodie, Fotodiox, iPad mini, iphone, lens flare, purple flare, purple haze

 

Perfectly Clear iOS App Update Includes De-Purple Setting to Correct Purple iPhone 5 Lens Flare

November 11, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Perfectly Clear

Perfectly Clear’s Version 3 of its iOS app is out and includes a software fix for the purple lens flare problem on the iPhone 5.

On its own, the Perfectly Clear app is a great little editing app for the iPhone that gives you solid results from a single click. It’s quite similar to the Awesomize feature in SmugMug’s Camera Awesome app – and for good reason . . . Camera Awesome’s Awesomize is powered by Perfectly Clear’s technology.

One of the things that sets Perfectly Clear’s app apart, however, is the one-click De-Purple setting that allows you to remove the oh-so-common purple lens flare from the iPhone 5 images.  In practice, it works quite well.  It’s just not spot-on every time as you can see in the images below. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: De-Purple, iphone, iPhone 5, lens flare, Perfectly Clear, purple flare

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