Leica expands LUX with a silver Grip and a Steve McCurry Artist Look

Leica is expanding its LUX ecosystem, and there are two parts to it: a new LUX Grip in silver, and a substantial upgrade to the LUX app that includes a new Artist Look by Steve McCurry. It’s a smaller announcement than a camera launch, but for anyone using Leica LUX it’s a genuinely useful one. Details are on Leica’s site. What LUX is, briefly For anyone who hasn’t come across it, Leica LUX is the company’s iPhone app that brings Leica’s colour science, its famous Look profiles, and manual controls to phone photography, along with the LUX Grip, a Bluetooth accessory that clips to the phone and adds physical camera controls: a shutter release, a control dial and a more camera-like way of holding and shooting. It’s Leica’s answer to the idea that the best camera is the one in your pocket, made to feel a little more like using...