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Canon EF-S 10-22 mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
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Manufacturer | Canon |
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Model | EF-S 10-22 mm f/3.5-4.5 USM |
Lens style | Wide angle zoom |
Focal length | 10 - 22 mm |
Maximum aperture | f/3.5 - 4.5 |
Angle of view | 107.3 - 63.3 o |
Closest focusing distance | 0.24 m |
Maximum magnification | 1:5.88 |
Minimum aperture | 22 |
Number of diaphragm blades | 6 |
Auto focus type | AF USM |
Lens Construction | 13 elements / 10 groups |
Filter diameter | 77 mm |
Macro | No |
Available mounts | Canon EF-S |
Dimensions | 83.5 x 89.8 mm |
Weight | 385 g |
Additional information | Marketed November 2004 |
Owners reviews (27)
Overall
Owner since: 6 years
Price:
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Front/back focus, border sharpness, not recommended at all for IR.
Pros: Lightweight, low distortion, relatively fast, wide zoom range, fast AF.
Summary: Used to be my favorite lens before I switched to full frame. Good value for money.
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Owner since: 3 years
Price: £630
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Price (though it has dropped below £500 recently so its less of an issue now). Not particularly sharp, even in the centre. More chromatic abberation than I expected at the price.
Pros: Rectilinear with excellent distortion control, even at 10mm. Light and compact. Decent but not exceptional build quality. DPP lens profile completely eliminates
Summary: The superb distortion control means this can be a rewarding lens to use. However the sharpness has been a major disappointment for me. UWA lenses often have the foreground to the edge of the image where the lens is weakest, but even centre resolution isn't on a par with the price bracket. Canon's DPP lens profile is its saving grace, CA can be totally eliminated, and the apparent sharpness is massively improved with it too (and without artifacts, but the noise does get a bit worse). Lenstip's old review rated it's resolution as higher than the 17-55, and approaching the EF85 f1.8. I have the 17-55, and the 10-22 is much softer unless you use DPP's lens profile. It seems implausible that a UWA zoom can really match that short telephoto prime, so maybe its time for a re-test from Lenstip?
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Owner since: 4 years
Price: 500
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Noo real cons
Pros: Very good pictures on wide angle . Build is hihh quality. A must have for landscape and architecture
Summary: One of my favourits
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Owner since: 8 years
Price:
User profile: Semipro
Cons: Expensive for a non-L lens
Pros: Very good image quality (I find)
Summary: I'm surprised be the variations in reviews shown here. I think it says more about Canon's quality control than the quality of this lens (at least based on my sample). I've been more than happy with the results of my shooting with this lens. For the price and overall quality it should be an L series lens - but that will never be because it's EF-S.
Overall
Owner since: 2 years
Price:
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Price, lens hood not included.
Pros: Superb image quality, sharpness, colours, flare resistance.
Summary: An excellent lens for APS sensors. Best for landscapes.
Overall
Owner since: 5 years
Price: $770
User profile: Semipro
Cons: Lens hood not included (really, Canon!). Would prefer weather sealing, range to 24mm. Bulky to store with the lens hood. In other words, no deal-breaking complaints.
Pros: Stunning image quality, much better than the 16-35mm 2.8 L II which I bought at the same time (I still shoot film). Little if any CA, almost never flares nor ghosts. Very good in infrared, although the edges are slightly smeared at the widest settings. Again, trumps the FF L equivalent from Canon.
Summary: One of my favorite lenses, period. For all its strengths I wouldn't change a hair. This lens will keep me in APS-C: full frame doesn't have a zoom this good.
Overall
Owner since: 1 year
Price:
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Colour rendition is quite 'pastelly', especially with blues, not great for a wide angle where you are almost always going to want sky in the frame .... Colour, for an L lens, is a little weak in general. Chromatic abberation can rear its ugly little head on occasion. Build quality is, again, for an L lens, poor, having a light, plasticky feel no better than a standard kit lens.
Pros: The lens is otherwise quite well behaved and image quality, whilst not fantastic, presents no issues in the field. Does its job well.
Summary: Whilst the lens does its job perfectly well (used with a 7D) the kind of qualities you would expect with an L lens are simply not there. Build quality is the biggest let down. You expect L lenses to excel. This merely does the job expected from it. The sigma version does a very similar job at a lower price
Overall
Owner since: 1 month
Price: $690
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Plastic feel, not sharp at any focal length, obvious decentering, poor quality control, exorbitant pricing.
Pros: I was able to return it for full refund.
Summary: I have been both a professional and amateur photographer for over 40 years so I've owned a lot of equipment. I'm a pretty fair judge of lens performance and I tend to give equipment makers a lot of credit for their work. It pains me to write this review since I've been a Canon user for about 14 years and I've always had the utmost respect for the company and their products. I'm sure I received a defective lens since decentering was obvious and there was no aperture or focal length at which the images were even close to being sharp. (Is this to be expected of quality control these days?) Initially, I intended to exchange it for another copy of the same lens. But, the more I handled it, the build quality of this lens completely turned me off. It's priced about the same as the 17-40L but shares no build characteristic whatsoever with any L-series lens. It's not even as well made as many of my old lower priced EF consumer zooms. It is flimsy-made and seems highly fragile--about the same build quality as the cheap 18-55 kit zooms I own but do not use. It would be overpriced at half what I paid for it. I returned it immediately for a refund.
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Owner since: 1 year
Price: 770€
User profile: Semipro
Cons: Mi sembra poco nitido confrontato ad altre ottiche con lunghezza focale simile.
Pros: Leggero e divertente.
Summary: Consigliato
Overall
Owner since: 2 years
Price:
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Build quality from light plastic and feel cranky
Pros: Superb quality of lens even I compared with 17-40 F4L picture output are very sharp. The wide range 10mm are the most often use. I never use another range of zoom except 10mm. I can capture image without using viewfinder from camera.
Summary: Satisfied
Overall
Owner since: 1 month
Price:
User profile: Amateur
Cons: pricey, no lens hood
Pros: excellent IQ, fast & accurate AF, lightweight
Summary: highly recommended
Overall
Owner since: 1 month
Price: $850
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Complete lack of sharpness away from centre, at apertures at least below f11. The cost - my kit lens gives better quality images.
Pros: Wide angle.
Summary: Poor image quality and the price!!
Overall
Owner since: 6 months
Price: 670 Euro
User profile: Semipro
Cons: Terribele amount of Chromatic Abberation in corners and overall unusuable corners due to total lack of sharpness even at F8 - F11. I've returned my copy to Canon and am waiting for their verdict. Used on Canon 60D. It could be that this lens simply isn't good enough for 19 mexapixels. I've owned a Nikon 12-24 which was much better in every aspect!
Pros: lightweight, flare resistance, nice sunstar
Summary: Avoid this lens at all costs and go for the Tokina 11-16 which is beter at alomst al points except flare resistance
Overall
Owner since: 5 years
Price: 700
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Parasol not included and of enormous size. High price.
Pros: Low distortion, good construction, pity not creating constant width. Good saturation and color, fast, quiet, and effective AF (EOS 20 d and 50D).
Summary: Indispensable for landscape. Highly recommended.
Overall
Owner since: 1 year
Price: too much
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Too expensive for what it is. Too dim (f/2.8 would be a nice starting point for a zoom). Not nearly as sharp as Tokina 11-16.
Pros: Lightweight. Fast and accurate AF though.
Summary: Mediocre UWA for crop sensor cameras.
Overall
Owner since: 5 years
Price:
User profile: Professional
Cons: no cons
Pros: for a wide zoom: excelent!
Summary: used for VR and arquitecture
Overall
Owner since: 3 years
Price: 650 euro
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Some CA. A little pricey.
Pros: Small, light, great colors, little distortion for a WA lens. Good sharpness for a WA zoom lens.
Summary: Good WA lens with high quality glass.
Overall
Owner since: 2 years
Price: 750
User profile: Professional
Cons: Terrible chromatic aberration and edge sharpness, even for such a short length - the lack of sharpness was visible anywhere off centre (not even mentioning the corners) on a postcard offset print! Terrible build quality: the lens broke in half when dropped 10 inches in a padded case and was refused a warranty repair by Canon Australia. Very expensive. No lens hood.
Pros: Very wide at the short end and extends to almost a "normal" length i.e. 35-50mm film. It is ideally suited for my dramatic close-up and wide shooting style. Fast autofocus.
Summary: I was very disappointed to have such poor performance for such a well-reviewed lens - so much so that I thought I may have a faulty lens. However, Canon Australia have confirmed, when it was repaired, that there was no fault. This lens was so expensive and problematic that I have changed systems!
Overall
Owner since: 4 years
Price: 650
User profile: Professional
Cons: f 4.5 on the long end makes AF hunt in low light
Pros: sharp, fast AF, smooth zoom, low distortion
Summary: one of Canon's best - skip the lens hood as it's silly looking and the 10-22 is very flair resistant
Overall
Owner since: 1 year
Price: $ 700
User profile: Professional
Cons: lack of a lens hood. this is an "L". I don't care Canon didn't name it like that. So why they don't think to give us an hood?
Pros: everything. Great lens indeed! Very sharp and well corrected. Great colors. Happy to be able to avoid to shoot at f 8 in order to get a great picture. I own a 50d, which is quite sensitive to little apertures, and what I get shooting at f4-5,6 totally satisfy me.
Summary: Buy it!
Overall
Owner since: 3 years
Price: About AU $
User profile: Professional
Cons: Corner fringing, no hood, layout of focus and zoom rings different from other Canon zooms
Pros: Very wide, rectilinear, good colours, light weight, great performance at f/8.
Summary: Spectacular performance at f/8, whatever the focal length. If someone had told me 20 years ago I'd be using a lens like this I would have laughed at them. A few corner CAs but very correctable in Ps.
Overall
Owner since: 2 years
Price: 640
User profile: Professional
Cons: bit expensive, some CAīs, lenshood missing
Pros: strong resolution (the corners are a bit more week), nearly without distortion, nearly without light falloff, easy to handle, good design and of course 10mm, which is really greaaaat, nice colours
Summary: reading the "Mr. goose" so I think the guy was really drunk or bought a rippoff-copy - all is nonesense, this is a really great lens, a bit expensive, but the allround-quality do justify the prize. Its a great, very wide lens, get one for the 7 D, 60,50,40 D!
Overall
Owner since: 2 years
Price: 700
User profile: Professional
Cons: dull colors, significant CA
Pros: small size
Summary: not worth the money
Overall
Owner since: 2 years
Price: $600
User profile: Amateur
Cons: The usual: no lens hood. Filters are expensive at this size.
Pros: Very sharp and not a great deal of distortion, even at the wide end if you keep the lens on centre to subject. This lens excels in keeping CAs down to a minimum and in providing sharp, contrasty results throughout its range. Smooth focus action, very good build quality.
Summary: A little pricey but highly recommended if you want ultra-wide. That said, I find I do not use this lens as much as I thought I would as I find the more natural perspective at 17mm (27mm 35mm equivalent) onwards best for landscapes etc. But if you want wide for interiors and special effects this lens is essential. For the money this is a 5 star quality lens.
Overall
Owner since: 1 year
Price: 525
User profile: Semipro
Cons: no lenshood!!! normal but stabil construction, some CAīs, corner-rendition sometimes a bit week (f3.5-5.6) but thatīs quiete normal for UWA, price for a new one
Pros: Very sharp (in the center may be the best UWA on the market, only the Tokina 11-16 come close), few vignetting (from f5.6), very few corner-distorsion, colour-rendition is similar to L-lenses, light-wight, easy tu use
Summary: Optics are really brilliant (always knowing whats possible with an UWA), construction is average but solid. The negative point: Price for a new one and what happens with the lenshood??? (moneychunker from Canon....)
Overall
Owner since: 3 months
Price: 650 Euro
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Little soft even when stopped down in darker situations; some weaknesses at short end (e.g. strong vignetting); some CAs; not always reliable AF on my 40D. Tubus slightly whobbling, but fortunately not extending too much; lens hood very large and expensive
Pros: Fast AF; more reliable in sunlight, then also very sharp. Very useful range. Build quality ok.
Summary: A still good (good-weather) lens, even if a little expensive.
Overall
Owner since: 1 year
Price: 850
User profile: Semipro
Cons: Lens hood too big. Corners alittle soft wide open. Expensive.
Pros: Very sharp once stopped down. Well made. Fast AF
Summary: An excellent lens for APS sensors -light weight and smooth operation.