The 12-24mm Tokina is an ultrawide angle lens intended for DX sensor format cameras. It gets the job done, although it's not perfect. (Mine's is for a Nikon.) The build quality is good, and reliability wise I've had no problems in 3 years of service.
at F4 (constant) it's reasonably fast; Allows pictures to be taken that simply could not be done otherwise; Nice color rendition; contrast doesn't seem noticeably different from my other DX lenses; Autofocus is acceptably fast; but see below; Zoom scale is evenly and widely spaced; this is good...
As with all ultrawides using the sun hood is required; and it is a very big lens; Distortion is also an issue; which is common to ultrawides; The autofocus is a screw drive; so cameras lacking an internal focus motor (D40) are out of luck; No aperture ring for manual work; Past about 14mm the lens...