Leica at present launched the Leica LUX Grip, a MagSafe-compatible iPhone digicam grip designed to offer photographers with a extra tactile and exact taking pictures expertise, incorporating bodily controls and modes impressed by basic Leica cameras.
Leica is greatest identified for its high-end cameras and optics. The LUX Grip is its first devoted pictures product for the iPhone. It attaches to appropriate iPhones by way of MagSafe in each portrait and panorama, and integrates with the Leica LUX app by way of Bluetooth. Not like the native iPhone digicam app, Leica LUX gives superior guide controls, lens simulations, and colour science primarily based on Leica’s photographic heritage.
The LUX Grip goals to recreate the tactile expertise of a conventional Leica digicam. It encompasses a mechanical two-stage shutter button, a management dial, and two customizable operate buttons. The 2-stage shutter permits photographers to half-press for focusing earlier than totally urgent to seize a picture. The dial will be assigned to regulate key settings resembling zoom, shutter pace, aperture, or publicity compensation, whereas the customizable buttons will be configured for continuously used features inside the Leica LUX app.
A built-in battery supplies as much as 1,000 photographs and recharges by way of USB-C in roughly two hours. The grip is product of aluminum and weighs 130 grams (4.6 ounces), with Leica emphasizing its sturdiness and usefulness for each left- and right-handed photographers. A tripod thread is built-in into the bottom.
The most recent model of the LUX app introduces extra Leica lens simulations and a brand new black-and-white movie preset. In line with Leica, this replace is a part of the corporate’s ongoing efforts to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the Leica I, the primary mass-produced 35mm digicam. Among the many new options is a 50mm lens simulation, in addition to a monochrome preset designed to duplicate the look of early Twentieth-century pictures. Leica LUX customers may now apply movie grain results to their pictures for a extra analog aesthetic.
In 2023, Leica acquired Fjorden, a Norwegian firm identified for its iPhone digicam grip. Fjorden’s grip featured comparable bodily controls and ideas which have now been integrated into the LUX ecosystem.
The LUX Grip is obtainable now for $329, with an elective leather-based case with an AirTag holder accessible for $50. The Leica LUX app is free, however full entry requires a subscription priced at $6.99 per 30 days or $69.99 yearly. Customers who buy the LUX Grip obtain a complimentary Professional subscription for one 12 months.
