Additionally, with this lens' superb image quality and the Xt1's beautiful jpegs, especially B+W jpegs, my suspicion is that I'm about to embark into some personally-unexplored areas of photography, which is very exciting

A lovely lens that results in pretty sharp images with lovely bokeh, but the noisy magnets and shifting when the camera is off (but the lens is still on the body) and the rather slow focusing made me wish I wasn't so hasty in clicking "Buy"

Superb image quality, with amazing sharpness across the field of

It, like the 200mm, focuses lightening quick on my XT-2 with battery grip in performance mode, and renders extremely sharp images with exceptional blur

Amazing image quality and colors right out of the camera

Because of the excellent image quality at f2, I imagine I'll use this mostly to separate interesting and beautiful subjects from the background.

Compared to the 55-200, it costs $250 more, has slightly sharper images, and gains two stops at 90mm (F4 vs F2).

Bokeh can be very subjective to opinion, but I feel that the bokeh produced is as close to perfect as you can get.

use++ A quite wide F/2 means that it can be used in low lighting situations, as well as for portraiture++ Silky smooth manual focus and aperture rings, should you choose to use

This lens is as close to flawless as you will get