Glif Plus: A Deluxe Glif Package, iPhone SE Tripod Mount & Stand

For the moment, let's forget price. The combination of the Glif and Serif is sublime. The two pieces nest together and are less obtrusive than a car key on your keychain, yet they give you the ability to quickly and securely attach your iPhone to a tripod, or a handlebar clamp, a window clamp, whatever. The Glif holds the phone very securely by friction alone, but the Serif gives you the peace of mind to hang it upside down or walk around with the phone on the end of a monopod. You say you never put your phone on a tripod to take pictures? Okay, thanks for reading this far. Bye. For everyone else, the Glif gives you the ability to truly take advantage of the iPhone's built-in HDR capability. Also, since the phone will focus down to about 4", you can do neat things with just a tabletop tripod. Need a high magnification close-up in a hurry? Shoot through a 10x loupe (focus the loupe, then put the phone dead center and as close as you can get to the loupe's eyepiece). Wouldn't you use a 'real' camera if you were going to the trouble of setting up a tripod? Not always. Getting a picture with the iPhone is the quickest way to get it and send it to someone else. The Glif expands the number of situations where you will choose to take a picture with your iPhone over a 'real' camera.Now, about that price. $30 is outrageous for two pieces of molded rubber and a threaded insert. Highway robbery. And I'm not going to let it slide by explaining it away as "iPhone effect." However, ridiculous price and all, there's nothing else on the market that does what this does, as well as this does it, at any price. So go ahead and grumble, but pay the man his money, because you'll get your $30 back in the appreciation of how simple, elegant and useful the Glif is. Yes, it's that nice.

A little piece of metal (assuming it to enhance structural integrity of the plastic) was sticking out on the inside of the track where my phone was supposed to go. Had I not noticed it and hammered it back in it'd definitely have scratched my phone deep.Otherwise the design is very smart and useful. Recommend.

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This thing works fine, but there are better ones out there. I bought this one because I needed it in a rush and it was immediately available. Mounts like the Snapmount and the Anycase Universal are obviously superior to this flimsy Rube Goldberg mount, and I would have preferred to get either one of those.But, this works. It holds the phone in place with pressure only, but apparently sufficiently so. DO NOT get the standard Glif, the one that consists of only the bottom bracket. It squeezes the sides of the phone to keep it in place, and is guaranteed to detach from your phone if you jerk or just get unlucky. The Glif Plus includes a second bracket to keep the inevitable disaster from happening (why do they even sell it without? Inexcusable.), but that second mount is also only held in place by pressure. What's wrong with things that snap in place and don't come out?!This is just a cheesy piece of rubberized plastic with a metal screw hole in the bottom. It is *severely* overpriced at $30. But it works, and I was in a rush, so I'm thankful that it does the job.

I suppose I should have realized when I bought it that you wouldn't be able to use this unless you didn't have a cover on your phone. Since I always have an OtterBox on, this is pretty useless. My bad.

This is a great mount and stand for my iPhone. I ordered the full Glif package and think that it is an awesome package. It holds my phone very securely as a tripod stand as well as a desk stand. It is a very simple design that works well. I would recommend this to anyone that wants a stand/tripod mount that is simple and effective.

This is a very light and small product to help your iPhone stand up on it's own for remote pictures. It is easy to assemble, and effectively holds you phone in place.

I have tossed it in a drawer, and just about forgot about it before I started going through these while waiting for my computer to run a program.