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| Brand: Sigma
Category: Photography
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Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Optical Zoom: 2
Maximum Focal Length: 20
Minimum Focal Length: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 3.5 x 3.5
MPN: B0007U00X0
Model: B0007U00X0
UPC: 085126201272
EAN: 0085126201272
ASIN: B0007U00X0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Overall, a great value. May 27, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this instead of the Canon 10-22, and never looked back. Reviews seemed to indicate they were fairly comparable, with no clear "winner" in Amazon user reviews or in the trades, but I was on a strict budget and had 2 lenses to buy: this was the one that went cheap.
In use it is very good. When wide open at the 10mm end there's vignetting and some chromatic aberration is visible (the dreaded "purple fringe" variety) at wide apertures. Start tightening up the view, though, and it gets much better pretty quick, say by about 12mm@f/8.
At the 20MM end it is sharp, clean, and lovely. I've done portraits with it - pretty pleased with the outcomes.
But what I bought it for was that big, nasty 10mm wide angle barrel distortion thing, and shooting hand held outdoors in low light or straight into the sunset at 10mm with the aperture at f/22 or so it is just great.
I only saved a few hundred bucks, but no buyer's remorse here. None of the complaints about short focusing soft spots or bad workmanship for me.
Highly recommended.
 After 3 weeks I ended up returning mine May 22, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I used this lens for 3 weeks and took over a hundred photos in various shutter speed/aperture combinations; all of them turned out so-so to no good. The center sharpness is ok, but the sharpness and distortion of the image becomes unacceptable, starting about half-way to the image edge.
I don't believe I received a bad copy of this lens as a previous reviewer had as I didn't find one side of the image to be better or worse than the other and the autofocus seemed to be on target.
When purchasing a wide angle lens, for the most part, it's to capture more of a given scene. This additional part of the scene is of course found around the edges of the frame. Therefore, I sent this lens back and am in search of a better one.
Note, the build quality seemed solid and the autofocus was snappy. If only the overall sharpness were better I would have kept it.
 Great and affordable wide angle! May 20, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
After shooting a few months with the kit lens (18-55), I found myself shooting at the wider range more often than not, with the exception of the occasional portrait. So I got rid of the kit lens, got myself a 50mm prime (the f1/4 from Canon: a masterpiece), and a wide-angle zoom for landscapes.
I quickly found and bought the Sigma. Two months later, I couldn't be happier. It shoots where no other lens could shoot. Everyone knows that "10mm is wide", but few realize just how wide it is until they see it. Our eyes see in the 40-50mm range, so we're not used to perceiving such a wide field. When you look through this lens, you see pictures that you didn't even know were there.
The glass quality is excellent, obviously not up to Canon L standards, but that was never the purpose. The pictures are SHARP and clear, and colors are excellent (tints tend slightly toward the warmer end when compared to Canon's 10-22mm; I like that, personally, but YMMV).
Subjects are obviously deformed when shot up close at 10mm, but know what you're doing and that becomes a great tool for artistic pictures! You can shoot a 5'5" person head to toes from less than 3 feet away. Also, I am happy to report that at 20mm there is NO distortion whatever, regardless of the subject's distance.
The only problem I can see right now with this lens is a rainbow effect when shooting at 10mm in direct sunlight. The hood helps some, but you'll still get the rainbow in some pictures. See my pic in the customer image section. It's not a huge deal (sometimes it's actually a neat effect), and it's happened to me only once out of 800+ pictures taken, but know what you're getting.
Overall, this is THE wide-angle zoom to get if you're halfway serious about landscape photography, although the Sigma also works great in indoors with limited room to shoot.
Love It May 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love this lens. For the money its the best wide angle you can buy. I used it all weekend and am very satified with the results.
Great value for money. May 15, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This lens is the only super wide zoom available for DX DSLRs.
You get what you pay for, and a little more !
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