Again, that focal length issue. It's called 10-22mm (so this one does zoom) but due to the sensor size the effective length is 16-35mm. 16mm is TWICE as wide as a normal camera lens gives you (zoomed in is nearly same as a normal camera).
See?! this picture would've been impossible with any common lens.
Both these pictures were taken inside the National Cathedral, which is fairly dark even during daytime. So I used a tripod on the first one, and took a gamble with using the tripod folded up as a monopod with the second one and it turned out. But that's something I need to watch out for with this lens.. it needs a lot more light than the sigma lens. A LOT more light.
Luckily the OUTSIDE was brilliant all weekend. This picture was originally to just tease Vishaka because she kept having to back up from the monument to get it all in her viewfinder. I could practically walk right up to it and get it all in. So I took a couple steps right behind her and took a picture of the BOTH of them. (then it turned out to be a cute picture so I put it online.)
Seriously, with this lens zoomed all the way out I can get in almost 90 degrees of vision. That is, if a point directly in front of me is on the bottom edge of the field - say if I'm standing 10 feet away from the washington monument, it would be a point near the base at my height - the top of the monument would be well within the picture.
But that would make an awkward, kind of crappy sort of picture so I didn't take it. But still! I could've!
This lens was most of the reason I bought the new camera in the first place. Can you see why?
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