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The 12-24 is superb. I haven't used the 10-17, but the main drawback with that lens seems to be that you end up finding limited applications for fisheye after a while - it's very fun, but it really can't do 'general-photography' tasks as well as the 12-24.
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this thread for more discussion and images.
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