Say you want images, however not sufficient to purchase an actual digital camera. You want your iPhone, however want it was simpler to grip when taking images. For those who tick each of these containers, and you’ve got a cool €300 to spend, Leica has simply the factor for you.
Meet the brand new Leica Lux Grip for iPhone. It is a digital camera grip. To your iPhone. And it is made by Leica, so it is mechanically costly and “Lux”. Leica says the grip is “much like a traditional Leica digital camera by way of its dealing with and really feel” and we do not doubt that for a second. It weighs “simply” 130g, and is “equally appropriate for left- and right-handed customers”. The battery lasts as much as 1,000 photographs and expenses in 2 hours through USB-C.
It has a “clear design”, a “subtle working idea”, and it attaches through MagSafe. The grip communicates with the cellphone through Bluetooth LE and it comes with its personal app: the Leica Lux app.
The grip has a two-stage shutter launch, which focuses when flippantly pressed and begins capturing when totally pressed. There’s additionally a button on the grip for shortly switching between capturing modes. Two further controls (a button and a dial) could be assigned and customised by way of the app. By default, the button offers you fast entry to regularly used capabilities, and the dial “allows the exact choice of digital camera settings” like zoom, aperture, shutter velocity, and publicity compensation.
So, with the Leica Lux Grip, “photographers have all of the important features of picture composition in their very own arms, even when utilizing a smartphone”. Once you exchange your iPhone, you possibly can reuse the grip, you solely want to exchange the MagSafe base plate.
The app provides “the unmistakable picture and shade aesthetics of legendary Leica lenses” – suppose Summilux-M or Noctilux-M bokeh. You additionally get distinctive Leica appears to be like like Vivid to traditional Black & White to broaden your creative palette. With each Lux Grip registration, you get a subscription to the Professional model of the app free of charge for one yr.
