The new Leica LUX camera app has a lot of potential and some great features, but it is held back by limited customization and a steep price.
, the legendary German company’s first smartphone app for taking photos. While the company has produced its FOTOS app for many years, this is its first dedicated to smartphone photography.
Exposure compensation, which you can adjust by swiping left and right, sits at the bottom of the viewfinder and is always ready to use . Swiping down at the bottom of the image area will bring up white balance, ISO, shutter speed, and focus settings, which you can lock at whatever settings you want . The first time you do this, the app will warn you that manual exposure controls are limited by iOS to 12-megapixel captures.
Unfortunately, that’s about it. It’s simple and clean, but I’d hesitate to call a paucity of features a perk.
In Photo mode, you can choose between 13mm, 24mm, 48mm, and 120mm. There are no 28mm or 35mm options like the standard iPhone photo app offers. In Aperture mode, you can choose between 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 135mm . There are many things that are just kind of annoying about the design/layout and the fact that there’s no ability to customize it. For example, switching between Photo and Aperture modes requires you to tap the Mode button in the bottom right and then choose either Photo or Aperture. There should just be a dedicated button to toggle between the modes .
I want to be clear that the noise reduction and sharpening are not exclusively a problem with Leica LUX; they are a problem with almost every third-party app on the market, including the native iPhone camera app.
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