Highly recommend this product for the price, quality, and customer service. For the most part, I really appreciate the customer support. To me that is the number one selling feature.
11/05/2016
I am not a professional photographer, but I enjoy my camera as much as I can. I always wanted to have a fisheye lens and K&F fits my needs perfectly. I had no troubles attaching it to my Canon T3i, although you will find that fit is tight and feels very sturdy. Will it fit on your camera? Well, because it screws on your existing lens, look at the front of that lens it will tell you what is the thread size for other screw-threaded lenses that can be attached to it - this one is "58mm" as it shows in the title. If yours is 58mm as well, then you are good to go!Fisheye lens adds a lot of distortion to your pictures, and it has very specific, almost limited uses, one would say that it is vest use when you have circular symmetry all around the view field, so obviously it is hard to find such conditions. The center of the picture is clear, but the edges are warped and distorted. It is almost like you are looking through the door 'peephole' or magnifying glass. If you are looking at straight lines, they will come out bent and that is the beauty of it.Lens is actually made of two lenses - a macro lens that you can use independent of the fisheye. If you want to use fisheye, you have to use it with macro lens as that is how it attaches to your camera. It also comes with heavy duty plastic carrying box for protection.This is a great beginner lens, you can not go wrong with it as it has great build quality, comes with macro lens, is easy to use and it offers amazing value for your money.
20/04/2016
Amazing!! I could not be happier with this purchase! I love this lens, it is a great value for the price! I am not familiar with how different a $200-$300 lens would be but this one was excellent. Nice heavy, great quality lens with a very sturdy, nice case that I wasn't expecting! Worked great on my 58mm lens on my xti. Make sure that you are using a 58mm lens. If I could change anything it would be the range of the wide angle. Very happy with this purchase!
14/03/2016
not bad for its price, this lens makes the viewing area about 10 - 20 % wider.you have to work on your focusing a little longer but overall it gets you descent pictures!the macro lens also works ok!
04/02/2016
This is a wonderful addition to my camera bag. I am using it on a powershot S5-IS. I can dial the zoom (on my built-in camera lens) all the way out to get a looking-through-a-keyhole perspective or dial the zoom in for a nice wide angle photo with rounded edges. This is a heavy, quality product and it comes in its own filter case.
11/01/2016
K&F lenses are a great addition to your existing lenses.These lenses basically screw onto one of your existing lenses. That is why the size is very important. Look at the lens you want to put them on and find the circle icon with the line through it. Mine is 58mm. That is how big the lens diameter is and you need to order the correct K&F lens by that size.Now that we are past figuring out what size you need, this is a super fun lens. I screwed this lens with the macro extender onto my existing Canon kit lens and I had a pretty cool fisheye lens. Fisheye lenses is where the corners and sides of the lens looks skewed and circular. In the photo I'm including you can see my subject (my living room) in a circle with black around the edge. That is what occurs if you zoom all the way back with the fisheye lens. You can zoom in more to still give it a great fisheye look but without the black edge (see photos). It was fun to see exactly how a fisheye lens would look with my living room photo and how the walls and ceiling looked.The macro lens is super cool. It's the small lens you see in the photo and you screw it on top of your existing lens. I setup my camera on a tripod and opened the aperture to 22 and it showed a 5-8 second exposure. The results are shown below. I took water and misted the roses to give it the dewy look. The closeup/macro look from the roses are exactly what I would expect from a closeup lens. This worked great on top of my canon kit lens.To store the lenses just screw both pieces together and you can store them in a nice little black pouch that is included. It comes with lens covers to protect the lenses as well.Photos - Photos of my living room are with the fisheye zoomed all the way out, and then with the fisheye centered nicely. Photos of roses are with the macro lens and my kit lens.I'd highly recommend K&F filters and lenses. I've been very happy with them (hopefully my photos speak for themselves on the quality!)Disclaimer: I received a sample of this product in exchange for a detailed and honest review. My ratings are honest and I rate according to how the product performs (as you can see by my past ratings).
21/10/2015
I have worked with several K&F Concept lenses and filters in the past and I have had excellent results with them. I am still very much a beginning photographer and I am still learning as I go but I have learned a lot in the process. One of the things I have especially come to appreciate is the fisheye effect. Up to this point I have only had the ability to work this out via software, so I was pleased to have the opportunity to work with this fisheye lens. So far I have had a lot of fun with it and I love how it works, though I have again learned a few things along the way.A fisheye lens is somewhat similar to a magnifying glass with a great deal of distortion. The center comes out clear and the edges are distorted and warped, giving the effect of looking through a lens that is very thick in the middle and thins out towards the edges. Straight edge objects like sidewalks become warped and bent.This particular lens is a chunky and hefty fellow, actually comprised of two lenses instead of just one. There is a large macro lens that can work independently of the fisheye lens and it is very good for taking very close-up shots. The fisheye lens attaches to this macro lens and relies on it.I took several shots with the fisheye lens and I discovered something I did not realize though it is fairly obvious now. When using the minimum amount of zoom, the distortion is maximized and you get the most effect. The more you zoom in the more dampened the effect though it is still noticeable. I used the lens to take two pictures of the case in which the fisheye lens packs, one zoomed in all the way and one zoomed out all the way. For the one zoomed out, you can see the warping effect on the blinds over the windows and you even can see the entire image framed in a black circle. The image zoomed in has minimal distortion.I should state that this particular lens is designed for 58mm threads. Make sure your camera can use it before you buy it. If you have a different thread size for your lens, buy the right sized fisheye for that lens.This is one of the most fun lenses I have. It works great and it does a good job of giving the distortion you want with a fisheye lens, and it is not particularly expensive. I am very pleased with it and am looking forward to working with it for many years.Disclaimer: I was provided a sample of this product in exchange for a fair, honest and thorough review. Even though I received this product at no cost I have rated and reviewed this product without bias, based solely on my experience with it.
19/10/2015