Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLRs
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLRs
Customer Review: Awesome non-full frame lens.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had this lens for about a year now and it is one of my favorite's to shoot with. The pictures always surprise me when I get back home after a day out and about. Even with 3.5 as its lowest aperture you can get amazing low light shots without a flash, even hand held. Personally I bought this expecting distortion which is kinda what I wanted but the only times I've really noticed distortion is shooting straight up the side of a skyscraper at 10mm. Almost all distortion goes as soon as your start zooming.
It's also held up really well to my abuse. I've taken it out to the middle of the desert in early spring, a day at the beach where it was so cold my hands cramped up before my camera did and there was lots of swirling dust and being jostled by kids at the California Academy of Sciences. If this wasn't an EF-S I'm sure it'd have a good chance at being considered an L lens. It has definitely been worth the price for me. I'm just sad I won't be able to use it on the 5D Mark II when I get it.
Customer Review: what the other reviews have not mentioned
Summary: 5 Stars
This review will talk about what the other reviews have not mentioned.
The single most important reason to get this lens is so that you do not limit your creativity.
Yes, with this lens you will find new ways of shooting that you could not do with any other lens that is not a superwide angle lens. You will see a whole new perspective thru this lens unattainable with a longer focal length lens. You will be able to have near, middle and far objects/subjects in sharp focus all in the same frame. It will allow you to compose shots not thought of before, because you were not able to do it, without this lens. You will open up a whole new vista to your creative vision.
Side note: Be thankful you have a smaller sensor camera because the lens equivalent of this focal length lens on a full size camera is the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L ll USM at a price of $1,400., double the price. If you factor in the cost of a full frame camera $2,500., that's a lot to pay for creative vision.
Customer Review: 10mm FOV (16mm in 35mm terms) in view is refreshing
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently bought this lens, and even though I knew the mathematics, the increase in field-of-view it provides over the 17-85mm IS still surprised me when I first looked through that lens. I'm in the process of selling a house, and this lens is great to take the indoor pictures for the various ads (although it's also easy to make every room look like a deep tunnel -- composition gets a little trickier).
So far the imaging qualities seem to be better than any other lens I own (I don't have canon L-glass). The construction is also quite good -- on par with the 17-85mm IS, I'd say. Size and weight are also similar to the 17-85, which makes it a great match for a 20D camera.
This lens' weakest feature is it's maximum aperture: f/3.5 at the wide end is not horrible, but I always long for faster optics.
Not cheap, but it seems superior to the alternatives in its class. (Note that 10mm offers a significant FOV increase of 12mm, even though the numbers seem close.)
Customer Review: Excellent 16-35mm (equiv.) for APS-C
Summary: 5 Stars
Many great things have already been said about this lens, and I will support them!
My copy delivers outstanding sharpness (nearly on par with my 24-70L) even *wide open* (rare for a wide angle of all but the finest German manufacturers), great color, very little distortion (many objective tests have revealed that it's probably the "best of breed" ultra wide angle), and impressive contrast. Surprisingly, the build quality is not bad: tight fitting mount, damped rings, and no jiggles or rattles.
If I were forced to offer a (slight) negative, it would be the bokeh of the lens is somewhat "marbly"...However, when shooting a subject with an OOF area differential high enough to make bokeh a component of the frame, then the subject is likely going to demand far more attention than the bokeh! ;)
A fine lens, Canon: definitely worth the premium over the Sigma and Tokina rivals (both of which I sampled before purchasing this optic).
Customer Review: Great in low light
Summary: 5 Stars
This lens is phenomenal. If you ever take pictures inside, you want this lens. If you ever take landscape shots, you want this lens.
I often take shots in restaurants and bars and what not, and this lens has quickly replaced my 35mm 1.4L as my go-to low-light lens. The 35 is very fast and the viewfinder is bright, but once light is too dim for auto-focus, the versatility of the 35 goes out the window. Instead of getting blurry shots, I just set the 10-22mm to focus on infinity, and, since it's so wide, everything is simply in focus (even wide open). The same is true of outdoor night shots. Landscape shots look great, especially if you can get close enough to certain subjects to have them distort (ie, trees).
All in all, if I could only have two lenses for an APS-C sensor camera, with money as no object, they would be the Sigma 18-200mm OS and this Canon 10-22mm. I would pay big bucks for a faster version of this lens.