The very astute in the audience may have noticed that the panorama I posted last entry is from a newly added shoot. The extra astute who looked at the lens metadata and compared it all all the other lens metadata in my gallery might have divined that I purchased a new lens!

Yes, I am now the proud owner of a Canon EF-S 10-22mm wide angle zoom lens. And, boy is it a wide angle lens. I mean, that is what I bought it for, but wow. Of course, with the 1.6x crop factor, it is the equivalent of a 16--35mm lens, but that is still wide!

I mostly bought the lens for landscapes and like, as my primary lens (the Canon EF 28--135mm) just isn't quite wide enough. Upon reflection, perhaps I would be better served by a decent telephoto lens. But that is probably just buyer's remorse talking. Either way, I'll get a chance to give it a real whirl on an upcoming backpacking trip.

I have noticed the lens has a fair bit of chromatic aberration, especially around the corners. However, this is fairly common in wide angles lenses, so I'm not really surprised. It does make me want to integrate more processing steps into my workflow. But really, I take long enough to go through my photos with only Lightroom (which, by the way, is a fantastic workflow tool), adding more steps is probably not a good idea. I'm really hoping Adobe adds a decent plugin API to Lightroom sometime soon.

As a side note, did you know that the bulk of Lightroom's application logic is in Lua?

posted: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:58 | permanent link to this entry