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I agree that the 14-24 Nikon is the best wide angle zoom that I've seen or heard about. Alexch on here has it and produces some great images. Ask him for his thoughts.... I hired this lens twice from a place here in Adelaide and it was stunning. It's the next lens I'll purchase! Second hand on ebay (if you want to risk it) it $1600-1700 that I've seen. The only thing is that it's for an FX Nikon camera body (ie. full frame camera). The Canon 5D Mk II is full frame too. If you use the lens on a normal crop sensor body (not the high end semi-pro or pro bodies) then the image that the lens produces will be approx 1.5 larger than the camera's sensor so it wastes a lot of what it captures, and it will be the equivalent of a 21-36mm lens.
I use the Tokina 12-24mm for all my wide field images and have good results. It's not perfect but none are. It does have CA on the edges but as people have stated that can be corrected. I haven't had any problems with it at all. I assume the 11-16 would be similar. My Tokina is also very sturdy and feels solid - something that is important to me - but I don't know about the Canon, Sigma etc. For cost wise I would recommend one of the Tokina's. Ken Rockwell rates the Tokina 11-16 as #1 also! And it takes 77mm filters, so if you have any that size already you're laughing!
My vote would be for the Tokina 11-16 for your budget.
I hope that doesn't confuse the issue!
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