Us boys at Island Light have recently become the grinning owners of a Sigma 10-20mm 1:4-5.6 EX (thanks Grandmother!)

It's always fun to have a new lens, especially if it's unlike any lens you've used before, which explains one of the reasons that some of us on Cortes Island have been having quite a bit of fun recently. 

Being a rectilinear, this wide angle doesn't produce the boinghy boinghy your-nose-is-way-to-big fish eye effect, instead it just has a huge angle of view. It's view is so all-encompassing that you have to be careful not to end up with your feet and hands sticking in to the picture from behind the camera.

An indepth review of this lens can be found at dpreview.com Here