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I agree it was a very nice lens, and feels amazingly solid. I was expecting something really cheap and plastic feeling, but its quite the precision piece. Is quite good optically as well, much closer to a 70-200 f4 than a cheap consumer grade lens like I expected. Even better, it seemed quite good at 200mm, which again, exceeded my expectations as I figured it would probably be soft past 150mm or so, again, like many cheaper consumer grade zooms for m4/3 and DSLR's.
Stabilization system is quite good too, better than my 70-200 f2.8 Canon and Nikon zooms and feels up there with the OM-D level of stabilization.
Only downsize I saw was the size. I agree that its relatively not that big, but also agree with Jordan, on a smaller X series body it feels huge and unwieldy IMHO. On the XE-1 it doesn't feel very balanced and I couldn't even imagine it on the XM. Probably balanced a little better on the XPro I'm sure but just wasn't lens I could really see myself wanting to carry around typically. Which in effect, is the whole point of a smaller mirrorless kit to me.
Carrying an X camera and 55-200 really doesn't give much advantage over my Nikon 70-300 VR and a smaller APS-C DLSR, or even a D600.
Don't get me wrong, its a good lens, and its nice that X camera shooters have the option, but ended up deciding that it wasn't for me
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