What other reasons to keep my 10-22?

I've been looking over my stuff. And as I prepare for my Italy trip, I said to myself when I was holding the 10-22, "when the hell am I going to use this after Italy?" I shoot a lot of low light, night time, and portrait stuff. The 10-22 doesn't excell in any of those areas. As a matter of fact, I only considered this lens FOR my Italy trip. So any reasons you guys could think of to keep it? Or should I put it up in the FS section when I get back from my trip to Italy?

august23 wrote in post #3192399
I've been looking over my stuff. And as I prepare for my Italy trip, I said to myself when I was holding the 10-22, "when the hell am I going to use this after Italy?" I shoot a lot of low light, night time, and portrait stuff. The 10-22 doesn't excell in any of those areas.

If you're trying to get scenic pictures in narrow, winding streets --- and there's a lot of those in Europe & Asia --- the 10-22 is a godsend. It can allow you to take architectural pictures without having to tilt your perspective just to fit everyting into the frame. Internet galleries are already riddled with a bunch of ugly looking vacation photos of beautiful architecture shown from a tilted perspective.

And the 10-22 lens is not a bad low light lens. At the wide end of the zoom, you can handhold it down to 1/15 sec @ ISO 1600 @ f3.5. Strictly in terms of hand holdability indoors, it's similar to the 35 f2 lens. That lens would require a minimum 1/60 sec shutter speed @ f2 (-2 stops shutter speed, +2 stops aperture, compared to the 10-22).

I also use the 10-22 a lot for half and full body portraits, with the camera in landscape orientation. It requires careful framing to minimize distortion, but in the right hands it definitely works. It's an excellent way to take pictures of a person and show a lot of the environment. It's the opposite of what a portrait lens would typically do, which usually blurs the background & isolates the subject. You can take a portrait of someone with a 135L lens, and it really wouldn't matter if you were in Italy, in China, or in the backyard of your home in Cleveland. For that reason, I prefer a wide angle lens for portraits in exotic places.


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IMO...It's really nice to have an UWA handy. There's just no way to substitute it. An UWA lens adds a lot to the ability to be creative. If you sell it.....my guess would be that you would eventually regret it.

I have 12mm on a 1.3x. I seldom use it. But when I need it, I'm glad I have it.

Even though I didn't use my Tokina much, but after moved up to the 1D, I kinda miss it.

4x4rock wrote in post #3192745
Even though I didn't use my Tokina much, but after moved up to the 1D, I kinda miss it.

I went through the same withdrawal after selling my 30D and Tokina even though I rarely used the latter. I was left with just the 24-70 and the 70-200 on a 1D. When I saw the deal on the Sigma (the FF compatible 12-24mm) I jumped on it fast.

Or should I put it up in the FS section when I get back from my trip to Italy?

Yes do that

*waits in the FS forum*

only you know the real answer to your question.

cdifoto wrote in post #3192788
I went through the same withdrawal after selling my 30D and Tokina even though I rarely used the latter. I was left with just the 24-70 and the 70-200 on a 1D. When I saw the deal on the Sigma (the FF compatible 12-24mm) I jumped on it fast.

Haha... one more lens to add to the list. And here, I'm saving for the 300/2.8 which probably will take forever.

If I were only taking one lens with me to Italy it would be my 10-22. In fact I shot 90% of my trip there in January with that lens. (I also had my 17-55 and 85mm with me)

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It's not widely talked about, but one thing that I was very impressed with the 10-22 is performance in lowlight. No matter where I'm travelling, I'm taking this baby with me everywhere!

don't sell it, give it to me!

I've actually used my Sigma 10-22 on my last two photo shoots. Its extremely useful for doing full body shots in a tight area, or putting someone in the corner of a wall and going wide, and so on.

It came very handy most recently in one of my last shoots, where I shot on location, not knowing the model's apartment was insanely small. So I set up my backdrop and light in a corner, and pulled out the 10-22. Looking at the photos, you'd guess I was at least 10 feet away from her, and she was 6 feet away from the backdrop. Try 3 and 3

Thanks guys. I think after my trip I'll see how often I use it and make my decision from there. By the way calico, it's a TIGER, not a TEDDY BEAR!