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by Andy Bell on Tue Feb 17, 2004 3:28 pm

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UK's Amateur Photographer magazine today published a very favourable review of this lens.

The basic details:

Overall score 91% (this is very high, they rarely get into the 90's)

Vignetting @F5.6 or smaller - not discernable
1% barrel distortion @12MM

MTF charts - all good.

There was deterioration at the edges, but the crop factor of most DSLR's eliminates this.

Their conclusion was that this is a great lens and brings super wide angle to DSLR users at a reasonable cost.

On the 10D/300D it's a 19.2MM - 38.4MM lens, which seems the ideal range for wide angle landscapes.

Guess what's on my shopping list

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by matt kuchta on Tue Feb 17, 2004 3:56 pm

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Is there an online article? Sample images? Thanks for the update - does look like a good option for DSLRs.
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by Andy Bell on Tue Feb 17, 2004 3:59 pm

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No they don't do an online version. The mag had several sample photos that looked fine.

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by akclimber on Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:30 pm

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Here's a user's review that includes software that cleans up some of the lens's deficiencies wide-open.

http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/Revi ... tml#N106B1

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