Altura Photo 52mm Wide Angle Lens with Macro for Nikon DSLR Cameras

Do you find yourself wanting to capture wider, fuller landscapes or take perfect shots for social media posts at not quite the right size? There’s no need to look any further at expensive wide angle lenses to better your casual shots; this filter thread mounted lens has you covered. It’s quick to mount/dismount, maintains original sharpness/definition, and has compatibility across brands and generations. You can mount this on a filter from your collection or throw a new 82 on the front of it if you’d like to expand your gear supply. This piece has worked wonders going all the way from a mirrorless Sony A7III down to an old 35mm Canon AE-1. There’s no noticeable increase in any autofocus noise level, and film shots especially love this fun add-on by capturing more details in each exposure. I would definitely recommend this product to a friend if they needed an easy, economical solution to the problem of expensive lenses. Here’s an example of a high exposure B&W shot taken with the lens added to a 50mm Sony E-Mount; my favorite and best model was staying classy with her feathered ears being prettier than many people’s own hair.

I didn’t think I’d have as much fun with this lens as I am it was cheap in price and high-quality works really well

On one hand, I can clearly see if does offer some benefits, but I guess I was put off by the fact I have to digitally zoom in on the lens? Maybe that is due to my own ignorance and I should not fault the brand, but a disclosure of that would've helped for us that don't know. I have included some photos for others who are deciding on the lens, shot on my Sony EV10II using a 15mm f1.7 lens. So also disregard brand specifics? Unless there is something that brand really does offer and i'm only getting the basic functions. Even though I don't like the term, for the sake of clarity, there is "distortion" in the wide-angle lens photos. You can see the curvature from the center point of the photo, a natural thing. Opticalview is spherical, so to widen that view is to start to see the curvature. That's like looking at the horizon from the ground vs a plane. Wide-angle distortion is not a real thing, as distortion implies an alteration to the natural image... now one could argue that this attachment on the lens is distortion, well in that case, this is expected distortion. and of course, not in a bad way. If you want a wide-angle option for cheap? This is it. It adds some zing. With this metal attachment, it makes the camera REALLY front heavy. Again, to be expected, just look at the photos of it but it offers a good steady hand. This brings my view back from a 15mm (not calculating the crop factor but you can if you want) to roughly 8.55mm(again, not calculating the crop 1.5) and lens at mm less than 10 usually start to show that "curve/distortion" in the image so if you want that wider angle with less curve, i'd say the ideal lens would be a 20mm on APS-C. I say all of that to say it really does what it says it will do with no real drop in quality with adjustments. It takes in less light though

very, very good it is durable versatile for the price. It is truly worth way more than it is listed. I would definitely recommend getting this if you are on a budget very good or the price and very very good quality.

You get what you pay for. It’s sturdy and fits my canon eos r100 fine. However. When using the lens the sides of the lens is in the picture depending on the zoom I have selected. When you take the wide angle portion off and use the macro it does decent. I am planning on returning the item. It’s a great learning lens but not the quality I want to be able to shoot with.

Pretty neat. I purchased this to replace a cheaper wide angle adaptor that I wasn't super impressed with. I'm pleased with the purchase but wanted to add one caveat. The quality and effect of the adaptor are an improvement over the other adaptor. However, the manufacturer claims that auto focus won't be affected when this adaptor is installed. I found this not to be the case when I attached the adaptor to a 18-55mm lens on a Rebel t7. The image is badly out of focus when my camera indicates otherwise. So, I use the lens (with adaptor) in manual focus mode only. I'm still pleased enough with the results that I'm giving this 5 stars, but I thought it worth mentioning.

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 isn't 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 2000's, 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 might've 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, it's not advisable to use anything like this for anything on either side of a "normal" focal length. Too wide and you'll 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 it's intentionally deceptive. I had hoped it'd still work for my purposes, but it definitely will not.

I’ve only played around with this, haven’t had a chance to really go out and take a bunch of pics with it, so please excuse the random pictures of bathtubs, house plants, ect. Seems to work really well and be well made for how inexpensive it was. Obviously not high end quality... and you do lose focus around the edges but I’m okay with that. Any pics I’d be taking with these would be of one or two objects at most so the blurred edges could be background, not planning on doing while family portraits with it. The wide angle gives quite a bit or extra space to the edges, able to capture more in a photo than without. Photos I’m uploading are of without either lens, with the wide angle lens, and with the marco for a comparison of all. Only issue I have is that there was a little nick in the thread of one side that I think is the cause of this rather loud sound when unscrewing the lens. I’ll try and upload the video. However aside from the annoying sound, it doesn’t seem to effect it from attaching properly. The box was also a little dented when it arrived and wasn’t sealed so it made me feel like it might have been a return or something... but I couldn’t see any issues other than the one nick I previously mentioned.

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Camera - Nikon D3400 Pro - This now helps in taking those wide angle n macro photo of you are fan of it. This is an add on to your existing 18-55 lens. Con - threads are bit delicate i feel n can't be used with a hood (if any one know please let me know) Other wise is a great addition to my camera. Go for it.

Exacto de lo que voy buscando..Perfecto para la fotografia.Estoy contento

Both the macro portion and the wide angle portion works as advertised The macro portion can be partnered with extension tubes to get really close focussing distance.

Obviamente es un lente económico, pero su relación costo/beneficio es muy buena. Realmente da fotos bastante decentes tanto en gran angular como en macro, si haces las configuraciones adecuadas en tu cámara y con tu lente nativa; es cosa de buscarle tanto al zoom como a la apertura e incluso a los efectos. Estoy contenta con esta lente.