On Thu, 16 Jul 1998 20:17:24 -0400, "John R."
>I hear the Tokina has excellent wide aperture performance. How does the
>Nikon stack up?
It has excellent wide-open performance...;-)
BTW, an older Tokina I tried (not current optics?)
was the equal of the Nikkor at infinity-focus, but
far from it at other focus distances.