Advantages: Excellent quality pictures, Useful wide angle range. Good build quality. Disadvantages: No lens hood, Not compatible with all EOS cameras
Introduction
The Canon EF-S 10-22mmf3.5-f4.5 USM lens is a high quality wide-angle zoomlens that is ideal for landscape, architectural and interior photography.
It is designed to be used with all Canon EOS cameras with an APS-C sized censor and an EF-S lens mount, it cannot be used with Canon full frame or film cameras, also some older EOS models will not accept this lens either.
To see if your camera is compatible with this lens, check your camera for the following.
All Canon EOS cameras have a red spot on the lens mount to denote the lens alignment for EF mount lenses, check to see if your camera has an additional white spot to denote the lens alignment for EF-S mount lenses, if it does, then this lens will fit.
Focal length
This lens has an actual focal length of 10-22mm, but because of the x1.6 crop ...
Advantages: Range. Optical Quality. Size. Weight. Price. Disadvantages: Lens hood not supplied with lens.
Having owned and used my Canon EF-S 10-22mmf/3.5-f/4.5 USM zoomlens for around 15 to 18 months I feel that it is in many ways, quite an exceptional lens. Effectively covering the versatile full-frame equivalent 16-35mmzoomlens, it is a valuable addition to anyone's kit.
Being an EF-S lens (the 'S' standing for 'Short' back-focus), it is designed for use ONLY with cameras having APS-C size sensors. Don't attempt to fit one to a full-frame DSLR or 35mm SLR camera. Such lenses have reduced image circles and produce vignetting on full-frame or 35mm cameras. Furthermore, the rear lens element could get hit by the reflex mirror, causing serious damage.
With a maximum aperture of f/3.5 at the widest end and f/4.5 at the more moderate end of the zoom range, the lens is not 'fast' by any stretch of the imagination. However ...
Advantages: Robust, good looking, quick focusing, compact Disadvantages: There are better alternatives
-range zoom and a decent one. Focusing is swift and quiet and the maximum aperture of f4.5 at maximum zoom is useful.
If I was buying it today I would save up a bit more cash and get the 18-200mm VR II lens that is out now. Not a huge amount larger but so much more versatile. ...
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Manufacturer's product description
The Pentax interchangeable lens system provides a complete line of high-quality lenses to satisfy your every creative need. Offering a wide range of focal lengths, functions and effects for different formats, Pentax lenses are designed to maximize each camera's capabilities. PRODUCT FEATURES: Metal PENTAX KAF Lens Mount; Equivalent focal length to 15mm-26mm in the 35mm format with ist DSLRs; New water and oil repellant SP (Super Protective) lens coating for easy cleaning Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass for superior sharpness and color correction; Responsive "Quick-Shift Focus System" allows instant shift from AF to MF; The image circle is designed to match the CCD used in PENTAX digital SLRs.
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