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593 of 619 people found the following review helpful.
The answer to the crop sensor problem.
By Jim Krupnik
My take on this lens is that it is an “L” quality optic in a fine, non “L” package. There is nothing else on the market to compete with it (nothing at all), and it produces supurb images. It isn’t an f/2.8 lens, but it is close enough for most uses. The competition from Tamron is a full stop slower, not as sharp, and is awful in dim light compared to the Canon 10-22 lens (sorry, Tamron fans, but the Tamron lens isn’t even playing in the same ballpark).

218 of 227 people found the following review helpful.
The best lens I own
By M. A. Filippelli
I have had this lens for several months now and let me start out by saying WOW. I looked at the lens in the store along with the Sigma 12-24 and I was in total awe of what I saw though the view finder with the Canon 10-22. This is an ultra wide angle lens that is incredible. I went home and thought about where I would use this lens and determined that I would use it quite a bit. I went ahead and bought the lens and I continue to be more impressed with it every time I use it. I have used the lens for both close-up (which can give you some very interesting distortion shots)and wide angle shots with great success.

546 of 580 people found the following review helpful.
Very good lens, but expensive
By Svend
I am very impressed with this lens. I didn’t realize just how wide-angle this lens was. At 10mm, I can stand just a few feet in front of a 13-story building, and get the whole thing in the picture, from the entrance to the top of the building.

As with all very-wide lenses, you have to be careful that you don’t have people at the edges of the frame or too close to the lens, or they will appear very distorted when taking pictures at 10mm. Also note that a wide angle lens is not easy to use at first to create compelling images, as it’s very easy to include too much clutter in your compositions.

PROS
- optical quality is excellent (deserves an “L” lens designation)
- uses the higher quality ring-type USM focusing
- minimum focusing distance is very close
- surprisingly lightweight
- very flare-resistant even without hood
- the only option for EOS digital cameras (Rebel, Rebel XT, 20D) to get true wide angle shots due to the smaller APS-C sensor in those cameras.

CONS
- It’s expensive! But at least it is cheaper than a year ago.
- The lens is a little soft in the corners at 10mm, but is very sharp at 12mm and up.
- Canon has not formally committed to how long they will continue to make cameras and lenses using the EF-S system.
- The lens currently only works on the lower-end dSLR cameras — the 10D, 1D, 1Ds, and 5D cameras cannot use this lens.
- The hood is not included with this lens, but it’s such as ugly hood and the lens doesn’t have flare problems, so I don’t really think it is necessary anyway.

In 5 years when you upgrade your camera, there is a possibility that it will not support this lens. This depends on what direction Canon goes in making camera sensors:
1) continue to make cameras that use the smaller APS-C sensor, and keep improving its density to support more and more resolution. This will help keep the dSLR cameras smaller and lighter, and will necessitate making EF-S lenses the standard.
2) make the sensors match the size of a frame of 35mm film. And at the same time increase the density to yield even more resolution. Right now sensors this big are very expensive to produce.

I now think that #2 is more likely to happen. All the other lenses out there are built for a 35mm-film-sized sensor, and now that Canon has released another full-frame camera (5D) at a lower price, I’m betting that in another few years the APS-C sensor will be practically obsolete. A 5D body and 16-35 or 17-40 lens will give you better results than a 20D with this lens, but the difference in price between the two setups is a few thousand dollars right now.

The 10-22 is an excellent lens, but it will probably not hold its value as well as the Canon 16-35 and 17-40 lenses. A slightly more affordable alternative is the Sigma 10-20mm, which sounds like it nearly equals the optical quality of this lens.

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Canon Ef S 10 22mm F 3 5 4 5 Usm Slr Lens

With it is effective focal length range of approximately 16-35mm in 35mm format, the EF-S 10-22mm f/3. 5-4. 5 USM is a noteworthy lens with outstanding effigy quality that will take your photography into new dimensions and areas of dramatic expression. The super-wide zoom not only gives you the freedom to get incisively what you want in the shot, it dramatically modifies perspective to grant for dynamic expression. The lens allows you to get exceedingly close to subjects, exaggerating the divergence in size among a near object and it is background. Creative photographers may use this phenomenon to develop magnificent separation amidst subject and background for a strong sense of presence, or for a pan-focus effect with everything from foreground to background sharply in focus. Exceptionally light and compact for it is focal length range, the EF-S 10-22mm f/3. 5-4. 5 USM also has an fabulously close minimum focusing distance of just 24cm. A ring-type USM works in concert with the camera to provide super-fast, precision automati focusing and predictive tracking – with full manual override available at any time. Designed distinctively for digital photography, the lens has particularly shaped lens constituents and Super Spectra coatings to suppress ghosting and flare, which may be caused by reflections off digital camera sensors. An exclusive optional lens hood may further reduce the incidence of flare. A circular aperture provides a delighting background blur when shooting with a wide aperture; idealisti for creating a sense of depth and getting your subject or model to stand out from the background.

Features

• Excellent optical quality and true wide-angle coverage with select digital SLRs
• Superior AF performance and speed, with full-time manual focus by plainly turning ring
• Close-focusing to 9.5 inches — fill the frame with subjects as little as 3.6 x 5.4 inches
• Relatively compact size and light weight for an ultra-wide zoom lens
• Inner focusing scheme (no front element rotation); length doesn’t change if zoomed
• Circular aperture design — natural highlights, even stopped down two stops
• Electronic diaphragm — manually-set apertures stay neverending from f/4.5 by way of f/22
• EF-S lens mount — wholly for EOS 20D and Digital Rebel bodies

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