Product Description

This exciting new zoom lens provides ultra wide-angle coverage to the EOS 20D and Digital Rebel SLR Digital-camera systems. Equivalent to a 16-35mm zoom, it offers excellent performance and optics designed from the ground-up for digital SLR use. Three Aspherical lens elements, plus a Super-UD element, assure image quality. Its ring-type USM means fast and silent AF along with full-time manual focus. It focuses as close as 9.5 inches. Circular aperture design -- natural highlights, even stopped down two stops Electronic diaphragm -- manually-set apertures stay constant from f/4.5 thru f/22 EF-S lens mount -- exclusively for EOS 20D and Digital Rebel bodies Focal length 10 - 22 mm / 35 mm FOV 16 - 35 mm equivalent Construction - 13 elements in 10 groups Diaphragm - 6 blades Maximum aperture F3.5 - F4.5 / Minmum aperture F22 - F27 Closest focus 0.24 m Max magnification 0.17x (at 22 mm) AF actuator USM with full-time manual focus Filter diameter - 77 mm (accepts 77mm optional filters) Unit Dimensions - 83.5 x 89.8 mm (diameter x length) / Weight - 385 g

Product Details

• Brand: Canon
• Model: 9518A002
• Dimensions: 4.50" h x 4.50" w x 6.00" l, 4.00 pounds

Features

• 10-22mm wide-angle zoom lens with f/3.5-4.5 maximum aperture for EOS digital SLR cameras
• Superior AF performance and speed, with full-time manual focus with the turn of a ring
• Close focusing to 9.5 inches; fills the frame with subjects as small as 3.6 x 5.4 inches
• Circular aperture design produces natural highlights; EF-S lens mount for 20D and Digital Rebel
• Measures 3.3 inches in diameter and 3.5 inches long; weighs 13.6 ounces; 1-year warranty

From the Manufacturer
This exciting new zoom lens provides ultra wide-angle coverage to the EOS 20D and Digital Rebel shooter. Equivalent to a 16-35mm zoom, it offers excellent performance and optics designed from the ground-up for digital SLR use. Three Aspherical lens elements, plus a Super-UD element, assure image quality. Its ring-type USM means fast and silent AF along with full-time manual focus. It focuses as close as 9.5 inches.

Features

• Excellent optical quality and true wide-angle coverage with select digital SLRs
• Superior AF performance and speed, with full-time manual focus by simply turning ring
• Close-focusing to 9.5 inches -- fill the frame with subjects as small as 3.6 x 5.4 inches
• Relatively compact size and light weight for an ultra-wide zoom lens
• Inner focusing system (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 constant from f/4.5 thru f/22
• EF-S lens mount -- exclusively for EOS 20D and Digital Rebel bodies

Customer Reviews

Love it!
This lens is so much fun to play with, and really gives a unique perspective to your photos. Would definately make this purchase again!

great shots
I purchased this and a sigma 10-20mm wide angle and decided to run a taste test. Let me start by saying I wanted to like the SIgma. It's cheaper and I even like the look and feel of it. But it doesn't compare. Pictures taken with the Canon on were sharper and more vivid across the board. Also less distortion with the Canon at 10mm and straight lines at 12mm. Only gripe is this is a cropped lens and I can't use it when I upgrade to a 5D. That said, it's a lot less than the canon full frame wide angle. But it is truly some fun glass to latch on to your camera for shooting potraits and scenes. Ended up returning the Sigma.

Awesome non-full frame lens.
I've had this lens for about a year now and it is one of my favorite's to shoot with. The pictures always surprise me when I get back home after a day out and about. Even with 3.5 as its lowest aperture you can get amazing low light shots without a flash, even hand held. Personally I bought this expecting distortion which is kinda what I wanted but the only times I've really noticed distortion is shooting straight up the side of a skyscraper at 10mm. Almost all distortion goes as soon as your start zooming.

It's also held up really well to my abuse. I've taken it out to the middle of the desert in early spring, a day at the beach where it was so cold my hands cramped up before my camera did and there was lots of swirling dust and being jostled by kids at the California Academy of Sciences. If this wasn't an EF-S I'm sure it'd have a good chance at being considered an L lens. It has definitely been worth the price for me. I'm just sad I won't be able to use it on the 5D Mark II when I get it.