Leica Made A $329 Iphone Camera Grip

Leica has announced a caller iPhone accessory called nan Leica Lux Grip designed to make utilizing its iOS-only Leica Lux app consciousness overmuch for illustration shooting pinch its dedicated cameras. It adds a DSLR-style grip to nan iPhone and features customizable usability buttons, a two-stage shutter button, and a powerfulness dial. It’s disposable now for $329 successful premier Leica stores, nan company’s online store, and different “specialist retailers.”

That’s costly erstwhile compared to different grip solutions that negociate to spot stabilization for small than half that price. But that mightiness beryllium overmuch reasonable than you’d expect from a institution that sells $23,000 platinum-plated movie cameras and $500 pencil sets.

Made pinch an aluminum lodging that’s vanished successful achromatic (but without nan iconic Leica reddish dot) nan Lux Grip attaches to iPhones utilizing MagSafe. It tin beryllium utilized pinch nan telephone vertically aliases horizontally, and should beryllium compatible pinch models making emotion backmost to nan iPhone 12.

The grip wirelessly connects to iPhones utilizing Bluetooth, but to return afloat advantage of each of its controls, it’s designed to beryllium utilized specifically pinch Leica’s mobile photography app that simulates nan look and aesthetics of nan company’s lenses and vintage photography gear. The app is free, but requires a $6.99 per play aliases $69.99 yearly subscription to usage each of its features. To soften nan rustle of nan Lux Grip’s worth tag, Leica includes a free 1 twelvemonth subscription to nan app.

Leica says nan Lux Grip’s 300mAh artillery has tin powerfulness to return up to 1,000 shots, and it tin beryllium recharged complete USB-C successful astir 2 hours. But dissimilar nan Stage PowerGrip that Belkin announced astatine CES 2025, which houses a beefier 10,000mAh artillery that tin title a connected phone, Leica’s grip only powers itself. At $149.95, Belkin’s grip is too small than half nan worth of Leica’s.

And if spending $329 connected an iPhone accessory doesn’t clip disconnected your wallet emotion stung, Leica too sells a $60 leather suit for its Lux Grip that includes a pouch for hiding an AirTag.