Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLRs
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Customer Review: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens
Summary: 5 Stars
This compact, extremely well designed and light weight wide angle lens should have been designated an L series lens. For all of the small sensor digital SLR cameras, this lens cannot be beat. It is fast, quiet, accurate and has an internal focusing system. When equipped with the 77mm UV filter, this lens is protected against dust and seals it from most of the rain showers one encounters in most photographic situations. My recommendation is to purchase a high quality filter as the optics of this lens deserves the best.
I use the 16-35mm f2.8 on the full frame 5D. For the occasions where a lighter, smaller camera is needed, the Rebel XTs, XTi, for example, the same range can be covered using the 10-22mm EF-S. The 20D, 30D, 40D, also, with their 1.6 sensor, will cover the same range when using the 10-22mm EF-S lens. It should be noted that the 10-22 lens is not compatible with the full frame cameras.
Some images obtained from this lens have, on occasions, rivaled images using the 16-35mm f2.8 with the 5D. No lens will be 100% perfect and you will learn through experience, that each lens will have strengths and weaknesses. Knowing what the lens is capable of and your skill as a photographer will always be the varying factors.
For the serious photographer, or an aspiring one, like myself, the super wide angle lens is a must have! I purchased this lens and its lens hood through Amazon. Like the other many products I have purchased through Amazon, both the service and product has been exemplary.
The 10-22 EF-S lens is truly a remarkable lens. One of Canon's finest in my opinion. If you are wanting a super wide lens, look no further as this one is by far the very best out there.
Customer Review: Worth every single penny
Summary: 5 Stars
I got the sigma 10-20 first. It was defective with softness on left side. The replacement I got was soft on the left and the right side. I googled and found out this was a known issue, but their still out there.
I anted up and got the canon and well, it's glued to the body :)
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Customer Review: Great lens
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this lens for my Canon 40D. You can get a less expensive lens which may be entirely satisfactory, but over the long haul the Canon EF-S 10-22 is by far the best choice. It is superior in every way.Customer Review: Expensive, but high quality. Minor sharpness issues in corners.
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm a fairly serious amateur photographer, and have had mostly Canon equipment for 18 years or so. This lens has very good color balance, perhaps very slightly on the cool side. The lack of distortion for a lens this wide is pretty amazing. Things in the corners tend to distort the most, but even so, distortion is surprisingly low even at the 10mm end. Sharpness is mixed... At the 10mm end, the center of the photo tends to be very sharp (sharper than any of my other lenses in fact) and is reasonably sharp to the edges, but the corners are noticeably blurry even at F-stops in the middle of the range (which is where lenses are often at their best.) This may be a trait of ultra-wides, as I've seen it in other wide angle lenses. That issue goes away as the lens is zoomed away from the widest end.
Zooming and focus speed is Canon's usual impeccable quality.
I extensively investigated the Sigma 10-20mm as a cheaper alternative to this one, and was turned off by two things: the noticeably warm color tint and the quality control issues that Sigma seems to be having (my local camera store stopped carrying Sigma awhile back for this reason - too many returns.)
Customer Review: The debate EF-S or stick with EF only.
Summary: 5 Stars
I debated over purchasing this lens for the fact that it is an EF-S lens, and I hope to buy into full from sensors in the future. I finally decided to purchase this lens for the simple fact that it will be 3 or more years before I get a full frame DSLR, and I have suffered without a wide lens for far too long! I am so glad I made the purchase, it is very sharp and for all I can see, distortion free as well. It may seem pricey, but I think its fair for what you are getting, and keeping in mind the price of high quality standard EF lenses, this may be actually a bargain.