Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLRs by Canon
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Digital camera reviews of Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLRs
Digital camera Review: Best in This Class
Summary: 5 Stars
I was in doubt about what ultra wide angle lens I should get for my Canon 40D. Firstly, I thought about Sigma 10-20mm but after reading the reviews that say that there is a great possibility of getting a bad copy from Sigma I gave up. Then I thought about Tokina 11-16mm but I did not like all that fringe coming along with it and price was about the same of the Canon 10-22mm. Finally, I decided for the Canon 10-22mm after reading the reviews in pro of it. I can tell you after some shots with Canon 10-22mm that I agree that this lens is the best in its class. I bit expensive one must confess but we pay for what what we get and quality does not come cheap. This lens is Tac Sharp and the construction is wonderful. I think it is not considered a red ring by Canon because it is not sealed. It has internal focus and the ring focus and zoom are smooth all the way. It is also pretty wide for an E-FS lens. The only not so good characteristics of this lens that I could point out is that the maximum aperture is F/3.5 but that is not a big issue if you do outdoors. There is a photo of mine uploaded to Amazon taken with my Canon E-FS 10-22mm on my Canon 40D. It is New York seen from above. Check it out and make sure the lens is good. An image says more than 1000 worlds, right? I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THIS AWESOME LENS...Digital camera Review: Best lens you can add to your bag - short of an L lens
Summary: 4 Stars
The Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM wide angle zoom is a fantastic lens in build construction and image quality. The only limiting factor is the maximum aperture of 3.5, but otherwise this is a lens I am extremely glad to have at my side. Solid build with an ideal wide zoom range, the lens performs well for landscapes, architectural shoots, and for "special effects".
Perhaps somewhat of a gamble as the EF-S format is limited to compact sensor/short back focus cameras (those cameras with APS-C sized sensors released after 2003), but I do think they will be around for a while longer.
Digital camera Review: Best ultra wide lens for APS-C sensor
Summary: 4 Stars
Hi everybody,
I've been using this lens for a period of 3 years, mainly on a 40D and I loved it (and also rarely hated it, more on that later). I'm now using a 5D II + 17-40L.
Pros:
+ Great range. Even though I would have prefer a 10-35mm or something like that. That kind of focal can provide the unique look you're looking after and in the same time can provide a classic FF 35mm.
+ Autofocus is great (USM). People are sometime saying that it doesn't matter to have good AF on a wide angle lens, they're wrong, try to photograph a person running in front of you, you'll understand.
+ 77mm diameter, a classic at Canon, compatible with 70-200 f/2.8, 100-400...etc..
+ Build quality. You clearly understand that it is part of the best EF-S lenses.
Cons:
- Purple Fringing. I sometime spent a lot of time post processing my pictures to get rid of this hideous purple fringing.
- Distortion on the edge at 10mm is huge but it's clearly understandable, even though I would have liked it to see it better.
Other things:
- I would strongly recommend to use thin B+W filters to avoid vignetting.
- If I still needed a wide angle lens for an APS-C camera, I will clearly buy this one.
- Get a lens hood, this lens is sensitive to flare + it can protect your front lens. With wide angle lens, any scratch on the front lens can affect image quality!
I strongly encourage you to check my gallery and blog to see real world examples (especially landscape and architecture work) :
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Thanks !
Emmanuel.
Digital camera Review: Best wide angle lens for crop sensor Canon shooters.
Summary: 5 Stars
I owned this lens for about a year, had to sell it and I'm looking to buy it again. The reason is simple, it's the best wide angle lens for crop sensor cameras.
Though I care more about picture quality than build quality (The 50mm F/1.8 mk.ii is the perfect example), the EF-S 10-22 is on par with some L glass I've had. Though the zoom and focus rings are not as damped as the 70-200mm F/4 L IS, they were on par with the 17-40 L, which is already a very nice lens. There is absolutely no wobbling, unlike many other consumer zooms. The lens doesn't extend nor rotate while zooming or focusing. Lens hood is not included, which really is a shame for such a high quality lens. Overall, the only reason why it's not an L lens is because of the EF-S nomenclature, otherwise, based on build alone, it would definitely qualify.
Build quality aside, what about the optics? Well, I used to care much more about the telephoto end than the wide end. I had a 70-200, changed it for the 70-300 DO (another gem), and now I have a 300 prime with a 1.4 extender. So when I first got the 10-22 it was more to test what it could do. After a few outings with it, I realized that my favorite photos tended to be taken with this lens. The quality for such a wide angle lens is absolutely great. The first thing you will notice is how wide it really is. At 10mm, one has to really watch out for the tripod (or your own) feet not to be in the frame. At the same time, in order to get interesting photographs, one needs to be REALLY close to what one is photographing. At 10-12mm, there is significant distortions which aren't very pleasing, but very tolerable. However, from 12 all the way to 22mm it really is outstanding. Pictures are very sharp, and there is a lot of detail to be had.
If you are wondering if then, the 17-40mm may be a better option, let me tell you that it isn't. Under a crop factor, the 17-40 is more of a standard zoom lens, and not a true wide angle. The 7mm focal length difference is huge on the wide end. And both are very close in sharpness terms. As a landscape lens, one will want to stop down to shoot anyway, so the wide open aspect is not that important. I do not feel that the 16-35mm is a viable alternative either for the same reason (I don't need 2.8 aperture, I need a sharp f/8-11 lens), as well as the price difference!
So the lens is the best wide angle option for crop cameras. It is not an easy lens to use, as composition is very important for this focal length. Moving the camera just a couple of inches can dramatically improve a shot. One needs to be close, and really watch out for distortion and the composition. In the end though, once one becomes more proficient, the end results are quite stellar and it becomes a must own lens. Highly recommended!
Digital camera Review: Blown away...
Summary: 5 Stars
I read a lot of reviews about this lens before making a purchase of my own. The 2 things I liked the most about what I read were the claims that Canon appeared to be using "L" glass, or near-"L" glass in this lens, and of course the main feature of having an ultra-wide angle capability with a 1.6 APS-C camera like my EOS 50D. I can say now after some field testing that this lens gets a 5-out-of-5 stars on both of these accounts.
Crisp focus and tack sharp images seem to be trivial to achieve with this quiet USM AF lens. I found the best 50D lens micro adjustment on my camera to be +3, but also found +0 to be quite acceptable, using the LCD monitor/moire pattern tuning technique at both ends of the zoom range. What REALLY tooted my horn however was the new found capability to take shots that were simply not achieveable before with my 28mm lens. Whole rooms in the house became one-shot deals, as opposed to the cumbersome image stitching technique. Groups of people near by - no problem getting them all into 1 shot. Landscape challenges - a snap without having to back up and up some more, and still wind up stitching multiple images together. Of course, everything written about straight-line distortion at the 10mm end of the zoom is true, but not to an excess, and in my opinion is MORE than offset by the capability to simply "get the shot all at once". An indoor 6 story atrium that previously took 6 stitched photo's to capture - now easily captured in 1 shot.
Focus was achieveable at a tiny bit over 4" from the front of the lens. No IS on this lens, which I missed while trying some low-light shots (I kept waiting for IS to kick in out of habit, since all my other lenses are blessed with this feature), but this is only a concern on extreme close-up's, which is not generally what you'd use this lens for anyway.
The lens has an AF/MF switch of course, and is only usable on certain camera's that are compatible with EF-S type lenses (there is tons of online info about that to be read elsewhere). The filter size is 77mm. There is a light hood available from Canon, which I don't own yet, and I've read that it's marginally beneficial for blocking light since it's so small in order to accomodate wide angle zooming without getting in the way. I'll still buy one and put it on for extra front-end lens protection at around $14. It's easy to bump in to things and a lens hood makes a lot of sense for that reason alone. Anyone who's ever bent the metal of a filter after lightly bumping in to something, and then struggled with filter removal, lens cap fitting, etc., will know just what I mean.
I took some test shots with the built-in flash, and the 10-22mm lens does block the lower 5-10% portion of the picture at wider angle zooms. I was able to compensate for this in most shots by pointing the camera downward a bit more. Still, I'd recommend an external flash when using this lens, to take care of this interference and of course to get far superior bounce flash shots. There was no issue with the lens blocking any output from a camera mounted EX flash.
No lens creep on this lens. The overall lens length does not change with zooming. The zoom ring is snug, but turns smoothly, as does the focus ring, which can be turned after AF'ing for any fine tuning of the focus. The subject end of the lens does NOT TURN when zooming, which is great for circular polarizers and other filters that need to stay oriented. The lens length is 4" (with a UV filter attached) from the front of the lens to the camera body face.
At first I thought this lens might be a specialty lens that I would only use when I needed whole room shots or was met with other wide angle challenges, but with an effective 35mm range on an APS-C camera, the quality of this glass makes it a candidate for a lot more uses as well, enabling quick access with a twist of the zoom ring to any action that comes in "close", or to capture 2 subjects that are not conveniently side-by-side, as is sometimes the case with candid photo's.
I have to admit that I'm writing this review after taking less than 300 photo's with this lens, but the image quality and jaw dropping access to amazingly wide "views" that I've never had the ability to capture in one shot with a dSLR compelled me to brag "now" about this lens. If I encounter anything noteworthy after taking some more test shots under various conditions, I'll amend this post.
In all honesty, it's hard to imagine anyone who has ever been challenged by a wide angle shot not immediately falling in love with this gem once they get in to the field with it. Five star thumbs up on this one. Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLRs