58MM 0.43x Altura Photo Professional HD Wide Angle Lens w/ Macro Portion for Canon EOS Rebel (T6s T6i T5i T5 T4i T3i T3 SL1 1100D 700D 650D 600D 550D 300D 100D 60D 7D 5D 70D)

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For the price around 30 bucks and comparing it to others at the same price I give it 5 stars. Now if you compare it to a 300 hundred dollar lens Id give it 2 stars. This isnt the lens for the wedding or professional photographer, I mean come on its 30 bucks what did you think? Its for people like me who love photography but are on a budget. If I had the money of course Id buy expensive ones but that isnt an option. I have noticed blurry edges around some landscape photos that can be cropped out. All I can say is that for 1/10th the price I can take some nice wide angle shots. Overall very happy with the lens.

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So what do you get for 28 bucks? I am a pro and thought i would give this a try before i go and drop 5 large on a real wide angle lens. The Good: Pretty nice glass for the money, in the pic with the wire rim of my readers the glass is pretty clear, better than i expected for the money for the macro only part. Given you are putting another layer of glass between your subject and the sensor i could see using this now and again. It did mess with the AF a little so I switched to MF and simply moved the camera closer till i got the focus point I wanted. Doesnt take a lot of light away. As for the wide angle, well its ok. If I zoom up a little to get rid of the vignetting it seems to have mostly a usable area but...... Now for the Bad: The focus drops off severely around the outer edges and there is some color aberrations to contend with along the edges as well. My pics have un-cropped/uncorrected, cropped/uncorrected, useable cropped/uncorrected, un-cropped/corrected at the 18-55 and finally un-cropped/corrected using the canon 8mm correction in adobe PS CS6. You can judge for yourself. As a pro I will toss this in the bag and I could see using it in an unrestrained crop situation but its usefulness is limited at 16:9 crop. Like I said, for 28 bucks what the hell, the macro works pretty well, the glass is great for the money and it could come in handy in some situations.

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Bottom Line: This is an add-on lens, meaning it attaches to an existing lens to augment its focal length. If you are on a budget, new to photography, and do not mind chromatic aberrations and vignetting, get this. You can enjoy it with limitation. If you have $100+ to spend buy a true fisheye lens and you will get 45%+ more image than this. Pros: Adds some wide angle perspective to your images but its not the 0.43x it claims. If I understand that correctly then it should make my 18mm lens into a 7.7mm lense, however, I have a 6.5mm lens and its not even close. My real fisheye gets 45% more image. See images for a comparison against a 6.5mm fisheye wide angle lens. Macro works but is limited. For the price Im okay with the limitations. I will use it. Some reviewers said the build quality is bad, but I dropped mine almost 4 feet on tile flooring and there was no damage. Seems solid to me. Cons: -Wide angle is NOT as much as it claims. If I understand the 0.43x correctly then it should make my 18mm lens into a 7.7mm lense, however, I have a 6.5mm lens and its not even close. See images for a comparison against a 6.5mm fisheye wide angle lens. the lens causes chromatic aberrations. -Heavy vignetting in the corners. You can literally see the edges of the lens in the image anywhere under 24mm. You can crop the image to remove the vignetting but then you end up losing a lot of the image. -Chromatic aberration

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52MM 0.43x Altura Photo Professional HD Wide Angle is another great inexpensive addition to your gear. Its very similar to the Altura Photo 52MM 0.35x Fisheye Wide Angle Lens with the obvious difference. Both lenses share basically the same strengths and weaknesses. With the Macro and the Wide angle combo, you can get very wide or very close. I notice less distortion on the wide angle than the fisheye, but thats to be expected in my opinion. Both lenses suffer from focus drop off around the edges and there is a slight learning curve. As with the fisheye, the Wide angle comes with a detachable macro portion that can be used separately from the wide angle. Theres a sweet spot for the Macro, you just have to tinker with it a bit. I attached a couple snapshots with the wide angle attachment on my Nikon D3300 and the stock 18-55 lens. Remember, youre paying 20-30 bucks for this lens as opposed to hundreds or even thousands. In my opinion, you get much more than you pay for. All in all, this is a great attachment and it works as it should. Its affordable, useful, its worth having around when you need it and it doesnt take up too much space. Mine came with a cap for both ends and a "leatherish" carrying bag. Id recommend this product and Id buy it again. PROS: -sturdy and well made -works well (with a little practice) -easily attaches to lens -adds a nice effect to your photos -macro lens can be used without the Wide angle -comes with caps and a case CONS: -focus drop off at edges OVERALL: Great buy Great quality for the price Great choice for beginner/intermediate level

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As a Realtor I often have to take shots in small rooms such as baths. This allows me to take the shot with enough width to make sense to the viewer.

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First off, I own a Canon Rebel T6 and the lens I purchased was the 58 MM. The first lens I received had a defect and was the wrong size. I ordered a new lens in the correct size and there is no defect. I would highly recommend this lens mainly for the macro lens portion since that was the reason for my purchase. The wide angle lens is also nice, but will be used less than the macro lens itself. I have attached photos of the damaged lens as well as the non damaged lens. I have also attached a few perspective photos of coffee beans using the macro lens. Again, I purchased this lens with the intentions for macro photography as a beginner, not because of the wide angle. The lens attachment itself is a little heavy which tells me that it is made out of sturdy material. Other reviews state that this lens is too heavy, making the auto zoom or focus to not work properly, weighing down the body lens. I disagree! I attached this lens to my regular 55 mm lens as well as my 75-300 mm lens and it did not weigh down the mechanical properties of either lens. I feel the macro lens by itself creates a beautiful depth of field and shows true colors. The wide angle lens is definitely not meant for up close photography, of course. I tried using it to get a different depth of field in a photo of the coffee beans, but the wide lens blocked my flash on my Canon Rebel T6, making for a shadow at the bottom of the photo. All in all, I suggest this lens for any beginner wanting to develop their first portfolio, whether it be for a hobby, or to start up their own business. For the price, this item is a steal.

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Just a beginner, so initially, I liked the price. Read some other reviews and decided to get it. Got it originally for the wide angle, but I fell in love with the micro lens! Love that it comes in a small pouch with a cleaning cloth. I use it on my canon rebel t5. Doing a 365 photo challenge, loving all the photos Ive taken with it so far!

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Really having fun with this macro-fisheye lens , im not a professional photographer i just love taking pictures n this lens helps your camera take very nice pictures for the price, the quality of the materials on the lens are in very good quality for my taste and its metal with a heavy glass lense makes it feel like a more expensive lens. Also bought other products from this seller and im very satisfied with every single item I bought from them im very Please. N here r some pic i took with this lense.

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Purchased this item believing it would reduce effective focal length by .43x, turning a 50mm lens into something like 21.5mm (nominal focal lengths are often not precise and change with focus breathing so there really isnt enough precision there to justify the use of decimals, but I digress) Upon using it I noticed it has considerably less effect than a .42x fisheye adapter acquired some time in the early 2000s, so I did a few tests. Comparing the field of view of a 50mm lens equipped with this adapter to a 28mm lens, I found the 28mm lens was actually wider. That should not be so! I then compared 50mm + adapter setup to a 35mm lens, and the field of view just about perfectly matched. To convert 50mm to 35mm you need a .7x adapter, which is what this falsely advertised product is. Multiplying by .7 can also be approximated by dividing by 1.43, which is where I think they mightve screwed up and gotten the 0.43 from-- they could have accidentally subtracted 1 from 1.43 instead of dividing 1 by 1.43 to convert the divisor to a multiplication factor. Or they could be lying outright and guessing nobody would catch that big an error, but this is the difference between being *barely* wide angle at 35mm and ultrawide at around 22mm and has a *huge* impact on the appearance of photos and video. All this said, the quality of this product seems fairly decent. It threads in smoothly, is built of solid metal, and has very little chromatic aberration. I even tested it on a telephoto zoom lens for fun, just to see if I could detect any significant chromatic problems that would be hard to spot on a normal length lens, but none could be seen before the image became too soft to be usable-- and in spite of claims people make about products like this being "zoom through" for camcorder use, its not advisable to use anything like this for anything on either side of a "normal" focal length. Too wide and youll see the edges creep into the frame (about 35mm full frame equivalent is where you can see black spots in the corners, and it gets worse from there) and any longer than 50mm equivalent you start to defeat the purpose of a wide angle adapter. (So any of the reviews mentioning black corners are already using a wider angle than can be achieved by putting this on a normal focal length lens-- not its intended use, and not a flaw with the product.) However, in spite of being actually fairly usable, I cannot recommend purchasing any product that misrepresents itself. Anything of this nature that advertises itself as "HD," "digital," or "professional," tries to mimic the appearance of Canon or Nikon optics by including a red or gold colored ring, or mentions autofocus is throwing up some HUGE red flags that its intentionally deceptive. I had hoped itd still work for my purposes, but it definitely will not.

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For 35 bucks now, you have to keep in mind that you did buy it because you didnt want to spend 300$ on a canon 10-18mm sorts. My first impression is that you do feel good with the wide angle capability. On a crop sensor camera minimum effective focal length you could get with a kit lens is 18*1.6=28.8mm which is why even an iPhone 7 plus with its 28mm lens would have slight advantage in terms of width of snap it can take (though I find the quality to be better with DSLRs anyday), so with this lens you should ideally get best upto 18*1.6*0.43=12.35mm, but then at 18mm there is extreme vignetting so I would say at best it could give you 22*1.6*0.43=15.15mm sorts without any significant loss in quality. So for 34 bucks you do come close to a 10mm(10*1.6=16mm) lens capability on APSC cameras. There is no loss of autofocus. One big advantage which casual photographers may find is that, to take a family snap you do not have to change lenses. This also fits neatly with a 18-55mm lens attached in my amazonbasics bag with another small lens. So overall its a good buy, and yes the macro lens is an icing on the cake but I cant say much about it as I dont feel experienced enough with macro. You would see a nice difference in your snaps till you upgrade to real thing for sure.

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