Tokina 17/3.5 SL

[480sparky]

Found myself a little gem last week, and picked it up at the PO this morning: A Tokina 17mm f/3.5 SL ultra-wide. Although I have a 17-35 2.8 Nikkor AF-D, I was looking for something more compact in the ultra-wide range for when I want to travel light.

I put both the 17 and my 17-35 and took a pair of comparison shots in my back yard. I then resized them to 4000 pixels for viewing on PhotoBucket. Can anyone tell the difference? (To prevent cheating, I stripped the EXIF data.... ha ha!)

Full-size images are:

Image 1

Image 2

 

[Prometej]

OK, the first photo is better. So which lens is sharper?