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How does it feel in daily use? I checked it in a store and it felt extremely heavy and bulky.
It's just as heavy as the 70-200 GMii. I've done long walks with it and hours long events with it, no problems. The bonus being that for an event I can completely leave a second body at home. 35mm is wide enough for 95% of everything I do. If I was going to shoot a wedding I'd just slap a 16mm prime on the second body if I wanted wider.
Heh. I didn't buy the sony 70-200 because of its weight too, I opted for tamron 70-180 instead.
I was very excited when they announced the 35-150 hoping I could carry only one lens, but then I saw its weight. Its almost like the tamron 70-180 f2.8 + sony 16-35 f2.8 combined.
I also own the 70-180mm. It's a fantastic lens, I definitely love how light it is, but for what i do, the trade off would be having to use a second body or swapping lenses and at that point i'd rather just stick with one package. It's also f2.0 from 35-40, f2.2 from 40-60, f2.5 from 60-80.