NEW LENS!!

I was just getting into my car to run errands when the UPS truck pulled up this afternoon.FINALLY! I had been waiting for this package for only a week, but like always when you're expecting a new toy, it felt like FOREVAH!Anyway, the guy pops out of the truck, looks at me and says, "Molly?" and I reply "YES!" with a big stupid grin on my face and the UPS driver at that moment must have surely felt like Santa Claus, because it was all I could manage not to snatch the box from him with a squeal of excitement.I am SO excited about this lens. I badly wanted a Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 but for $1,200? HAH! Third party lenses don't have the bad rap they used to have 20 years ago, so I felt little shame in turning to Tokina...especially when the Tokina equivalent of the Nikkor I wanted is half the price!AWWW YEAH.Wide end (16mm). Look at that beautiful 2.8 falloff! I'm thrilled.[This is my dog, Bart, by the way. He is a 'puggle,' but he's a very old puggle and is mostly interested in his beauty rest nowadays. The way a lot of people photograph their children, Bart is most often my test subject.]Close end (50mm).My 50mm f/1.4 is one of my favorite lenses, but depending on the performance of this lens "in the trenches" so to speak, I may be able to give the 1.4 a well-deserved break now and then!