Can you tell me if this lense is the same as a Canon EF 50 mm 1.4 lens?

[carson_moore]

<p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Albinar-Wide-Angle-Fisheye-0-42x-Macro-for-Canon-EF-50mm-f-1-4-lens-Japan-made-/320939570727?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item4ab97d3627">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Albinar-Wide-Angle-Fisheye-0-42x-Macro-for-Canon-EF-50mm-f-1-4-lens-Japan-made-/320939570727?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item4ab97d3627</a></p>

<p>Here is the ebay listing for a lens that I've found. I'm looking for a less expensive version of the $400 50mm 1.4 lens and I'm hoping this is comparable. The fish eye aspect leads me to believe that it is not.<br>

Any feedback would be helpful!</p>

[mike dixon]

It's a wide-angle lens that you screw on to the front of another lens. It not a 50/1.4.

[brett_w.]

<p>No, it is not as good as the Canon 50mm 1.4, not even close. <br>

A less expensive version of the 50 1.4 would be the 50mm 1.8 (less than $100)<br>

or maybe the Sigma 50 1.4<br /><br /></p>

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[Michael R Freeman]

<p>You're yanking our chain, right? Hope your <a href="../wedding-photography-forum/00abu3">Nov. gig paying clients</a> don't read the photo.net forums. :-) ;-)</p>

<p>The only EF-compatible <strong>f/1.4</strong> alternative to the Canon EF 50/1.4 would be the <a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/560577-USA/Sigma_310_101_Normal_50mm_f_1_4_EX.html">Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM</a>, but that's <strong>more</strong> expensive. KEH.com <a href="http://www.keh.com/Camera/format-35mm/system-Canon-EOS/category-Fixed-Focal-Length-Lenses?s=1&bcode=CE&ccode=6&cc=80285&r=WG&f">has the Canon EF 50/1.4</a> for $339 in EX+ condition. Or you can go manual focus (and stopdown metering) and adapt a used manual focus Nikon AiS 50/1.4 to EF mount for under $200.</p>

[zensphoto]

<p>The Albinar-Wide-Angle-Fisheye 0.42x attempts to turn the Canon 50mm f1.4 into a fisheye lens. As stated by Mike Dixon it screws on to the 50mm f1.4 like a filter and you can get the effect of a fisheye lens it looks OK. It doesn't really simulate say the EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM canon lens, it does give you a look and feel of a cheap fisheye lens though. This kind of adapter is more of a creative kind of cheap way to make a fisheye lens using your existing lens. I've tried one out before with a 18mm-200mm EF-S lens just to see how it works. Ehhhh.. It works just not the same as a real fisheye lens. You get what you pay for. Like Michael said check out KEH!</p>