Wide angle lens - Tamron or Sigma?

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I am looking to buy a wide angle lens to use on my Canon 600D. The Canon 10-22mm lens gets some very good write-ups but is rather expensive at around £640. I have also looked at the Sigma 10-22mm and Tamron 10-24mm lenses both of which have good reviews.

I would be interested in hearing any comments about these lenses (good or bad) before I take the plunge.

Thanks in anticipation :)
 
I've owned the sigma 10-20, and played with my friends tamron 10-24.

For me, the sigma wins hands down, the only downside was that I bought the F4-5.6 version so it struggled a little in low light.

the sigma has better build quality, the tamron feels cheap.

Both offer fairly large amounts of distortion, but that's to be expected with a UWA lens I guess.

the only real advantage the Tamron offers in my opinion is the extra reach of 24mm over 20mm, but it's not a big enough advantage to warrent me buying one over the Sigma.
 
have the sigma 10-20. Sigma takes great photos, have good build quality. Never played with Tamron, but played with my friend Canon 10-22, I prefer Sigma. Canon no takes so excellent photos to spend that money for it. Sigma have great price/performance.

Thinking of selling this lens because I moved to the FF system and do not use this lens anymore.
 
I have the sigma f4 version its a great lens.
 
I've owned both get Sigma and now Canon. The decentring on the Sigma was unworkable, softer left side than the right, it also wouldn't focus correctly unless on live view despite being sent back to Sigma and told it was working. The same problems were there on 2 friends Canon bodies too, not just mine. The Canon 10-22 on the other hand is marvelous, works straight out, due to the lack of a soft side the depth of field seems bigger, and I love the pictures from it. I did also get good pictures from the Sigma but it was only in certain scenarios and required more work from me too.
 
If you can afford the Sigma 8-16mm, get that, it's excellent.
 
Used the Sigma 10-20mm F3.5 EX DC HSM on holiday in Norway. Great results.
 
RegG said:
I am looking to buy a wide angle lens to use on my Canon 600D. The Canon 10-22mm lens gets some very good write-ups but is rather expensive at around £640. I have also looked at the Sigma 10-22mm and Tamron 10-24mm lenses both of which have good reviews.

I would be interested in hearing any comments about these lenses (good or bad) before I take the plunge.

Thanks in anticipation :)
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RegG: i was going thru the dilemma for the past few weeks. Finally went for canon 10-22. I compared the IQ of canon and sigma and felt u just cant match canon, its way superior. Spoke to one of my friends who had sigma but switched to canon later because of the IQ.

Here is the part u wpuld be interested: i ordered the canon yesterday at the price 470 quids at the hdew cameras. Did a lot of reading about various vendors, found this one had very good reviews.

Now waiting for lens delivery :)

Naveen
 
430 ish for the 10-22 canon from panamoz
380 ish for the sigma
300 ish for the tamron
 
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Thanks for all the replies and advice/comments. I am going to have to give this more thought and will see if I can try all three on my body at the local camera shop.
 
I don't think you can use filters on the 8-16. This would be no good for me. "The tokina is the best" i seem to read quite often.
 
Tokina 11-16mm and Tokina 12-24mm are pretty much the class leaders of the 3rd-party offerings
 
The tokina 11-16 is definitely widely regarded as the 3rd party leader in the zoom category at these lengths. If you're happy with manual focus and want to save a bit of money you could also look at the Samyang 14mm. Extremely sharp lens, absolute bargain for the money you can get it for. But it also cant take filters... lots of trade offs in this wide angle category.
 
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Tokina 11-16mm and Tokina 12-24mm are pretty much the class leaders of the 3rd-party offerings
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these are the only ones to consider apart from 10-22 Canon. Sigma are significantly softer, and the tamron 10-24 is terrible.
 
A little harsh. Generally I think most people seem to be very happy with there sigma 10-20's. As you're are not keen on spending £600 on a Canon i'm sure you will be happy, but if you can squeeze a little more for a tokina you will not regret it.
 
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