10-22 or older 17-35?

Stimpy.....and mcgong--
I saw that you are expecting delivery of the 10-22 soon! I'd be interested in your impressions when you get a chance to use it.
Seems to me, I should get the 10-22 after all. Gets a lot of favorable reviews and comments, so to speak.

mcgong wrote in post #9166290
I had a similar issue and I ended up with the 10-22 which should arrive in the next hour or so. I have a 24-70 instead of the 24-105, and when I decide to go Full Frame, I plan on keeping my crop body for a 2nd body and using it for my 10-22 and 70-200, at least until I can get the 16-35mm. It was a tough decision because I, probably like you, wanted to stick with L glass, but everyone said the 10-22 is a very sharp lens, so I am going to give it a try.

the 10-22 on a cropper is like using the 17-40 on FF. when you do move to FF that is the camera you'll want to do you WA work with .

ed rader

sml wrote in post #9168657
Stimpy.....and mcgong--
I saw that you are expecting delivery of the 10-22 soon! I'd be interested in your impressions when you get a chance to use it.
Seems to me, I should get the 10-22 after all. Gets a lot of favorable reviews and comments, so to speak.

It was delivered last night. If I can talk my wife into letting me use it early I might get a chance to shoot with it this weekend. It is supposed to be a Xmas gift so we will see how that goes.

StimpyJCat wrote in post #9170679
It was delivered last night. If I can talk my wife into letting me use it early I might get a chance to shoot with it this weekend. It is supposed to be a Xmas gift so we will see how that goes.

Oh! Definitely shoot with it now! After all, you want to be sure it "works" for the holiday pics!!

I took my 10-22mm out for a test run and looove it. I doubt this lens will leave my 450D very often. I really missed having UWA from my 35mm days. It seems my useful than just a UWA with the 22mm on the long side on my crop body. Very impressed with the build quality, USM, and the IQ.

Here are some pics.

Very nice, Stimpy!
I have to decide within the next couple of days whether or not to pull the trigger!
The problem for me is that I was planning to trade in the 17-35 for this lens...but I went into my Lightroom folder this weekend and found that I actually use the 17-35 MUCH more than I had thought. And it has been on the camera for many of my favorite recent shots. So....tough decision.
(And....I read here that there is a possible new lens coming out in 2010--a 14-24L. Hmmm....)

sml wrote in post #9194764
Very nice, Stimpy!
I have to decide within the next couple of days whether or not to pull the trigger!
The problem for me is that I was planning to trade in the 17-35 for this lens...but I went into my Lightroom folder this weekend and found that I actually use the 17-35 MUCH more than I had thought. And it has been on the camera for many of my favorite recent shots. So....tough decision.
(And....I read here that there is a possible new lens coming out in 2010--a 14-24L. Hmmm....)

I think you really need to decide if you want the wider side of the UWA or not. I would look at the focal lengths in the shots you took. Find out if you use > 22 very often. For me it was a no brainer because I'll use the wider side a ton.

StimpyJCat wrote in post #9194681
I took my 10-22mm out for a test run and looove it. I doubt this lens will leave my 450D very often. I really missed having UWA from my 35mm days. It seems my useful than just a UWA with the 22mm on the long side on my crop body. Very impressed with the build quality, USM, and the IQ.

Here are some pics.

It does make you look at things in a different way. Opens up a completely different world.

StimpyJCat wrote in post #9194862
I think you really need to decide if you want the wider side of the UWA or not. I would look at the focal lengths in the shots you took. Find out if you use > 22 very often. For me it was a no brainer because I'll use the wider side a ton.

I did that....and I was kind of surprised to find I use the extremes (17 and 35) the most. Totally inconclusive. Though I know that one of my main lenses in the film days was a 20mm fixed lens! And I'm nowhere near that at this point with a crop camera and a 17-35.

I have both and I almost always use the 10-22 for rig shots of vehicles. With a 10-22 on a crop-body you can keep the weight down. I'm no expert on image quality, but if I had the choice to use our 5D and the 16-35 or a 40D and the 10-22, I think that the lighter combo would have the better chance of giving me a sharp photo.
I love my 10-22, but I'm easy to please.

don't buy ef-s lenses even if you only have 1% chance of going ff

ken_vs_ryu wrote in post #9198051
don't buy ef-s lenses even if you only have 1% chance of going ff

Why? My 10-22mm is going for more used than I paid for it new. Some EF-S lenses hold their value and you won't lose that much when you upgrade. It would be silly to miss out on one of the best lenses for a crop body just because you might go FF some day.

ken_vs_ryu wrote in post #9198051
don't buy ef-s lenses even if you only have 1% chance of going ff

And deny yourself the capability to go really wide, just in case? I'm afraid your advice makes no sense.

I wouldn't be too concerned about choosing the 10-22 based on a potentila move to FF. You'll sell it for about what you buy it for now. I had both the 17-40 and the 10-22 on the 40D and the 10-22 is a better choice. Sold it when I got a 5D with no problem.

There's plenty of other threads about the 10-22.
Just do a search on the forum.

In a nutshell though the 10-22 is brilliant.
It's so close to being an L lens, it should be. Trouble is that would make it more expensive,