Xit XT58WAB 58mm 0.43 Wide Angle Lens (Black)

Very pleased. Performed as expected.End caps keep the lens clean and scratch free.

I've been in the photography business for many years and I've come to the point where I've grown tired of lugging around big, heavy lenses, especially when I'm out hiking. These days I shoot primarily with a 50mm f/1.4 or a 40mm f/2.8 (AKA "pancake lens"). These prime lenses are lightweight, compact, and offer insanely good optics. However, their fixed medium telephoto focal lengths are also rather limiting. Factor in the 1.6 crop factor...Enter this Wide Angle attachment. It converts my 50mm into a 22mm (50 * .43) or a 34mm (50 * .43 * 1.6) if you take the crop factor into consideration. The trade-off for the wider focal length is image quality. With the attachment on, the images from the 50mm f/1.4 -- one of Canon's sharpest lenses -- are so degraded they're softer than images from my kit lens (18mm-55mm). No, make that much, much softer, especially around the edges and corners. The images are so bad, in fact, I'd say my cell phone produces sharper images. I'm serious.But for what I paid (4.77) I really can't complain -- I GOT what I paid for. And of course I wasn't expecting very much to begin with but I was hoping against hope the image quality would turn out at least half decent.Still, all's not lost. I find that if I heavily sharpen and then re-size my pictures to 1920 x 1080, they actually turn out quite good, good enough in fact for a 300dpi 3 x 5 print. Plus, the 1920 x 1080 resolution make for good desktop wallpaper and the relatively small file size required for that resolution also make it ideal for texting or emailing.---All in all, this attachment is not a total loss. It can come in very handy if you use lenses with a fixed medium telephoto focal length. Just be aware that it will make your images very soft. Not recommended for pixel peepers. Recommended with reservations for the rest of us.

Works, but the corners are too blurry, can't complain too much for it's price. It gets its job done.

Very pleased with the photo results I have been getting, I enjoy using it. It arrived fast and it is very easy to use .

Okay for the price.

love it fits tight and works great

I bought this one year ago just to really check if it was possible to get a real wide angle. Final words are: when you become more serious about your pictures, this is pure trash. As you can see the borders and flares, plus definition and image quality, everything is poor and disappointing. In real photography there are no shortcuts, if you want a good wide angle picture, buy some real lenses between 8 and 20mm. If you want a real macro, buy a specialized lenses for that. Now I will dispose this piece of ….

great lens