Review on 📸 Pictar IntelliGrip + IntelliLens Wide Macro + IntelliLight by Mark Powell

I love this gadget! I'm a retired professional photographer and I bought an iPhone 7 Plus so I can always have a decent camera with me. However, I was disappointed with how awkward it was to hold this slippery phone with two hands while trying to find the tiny side buttons or press the onscreen button in the right place. The Pictar grip solves my control problems. I can use it with one hand, the shutter button is easy to reach and it feels like I'm actually working with a "real" camera. Another great feature is the size. It has the perfect proportions to fit comfortably in the hand, but is also quite small. I was happy that it easily fits in the pocket of my shorts or khakis. I was thinking of wearing it with jeans. I live in Florida so it's only occasionally cool enough to wear jeans, but when I did I was amazed that they also fit in the front pocket. Maybe very skinny jeans would be a problem but my 501 Levi's were no problem! What can't please? Well, the software you need to work with Pictar. If you are only familiar with the phone app that comes with the iPhone, you will think that this software is amazing. You can save your images as uncompressed TIFF files, which is a huge quality advantage over JPEG. However, it lacks some features already available in other applications, notably the ability to save images in raw format to have even more control over the quality than in TIF. I contacted the company (Miggo based in Israel), their representative told me that Raw and other features will be included in future updates, but for now the company is just trying to keep up with the demand for hardware. I'm used to using an app called ProShot which has a lot more features and sometimes I use it instead of the current Pictar app but still being able to hold the device in one hand with the grip is a huge improvement and it is actually very easy to press the trigger with your thumb while holding it in one hand. I'm concerned about the battery life (it has a small, not cheap, battery that showed only 65% left on the first day after minimal use. These are minor complaints. I really like the Pictar's grip and it's long overdue in addition to the growing field of mobile photography.