So love my Sony Zoom walk around lens.

I've read a lot of reviews from people who've said that this is the price you have to pay for a zoom range like this

It is just a good, well built, solid zoom lens with an excellent zoom range.

The built quality is really good: solid metal and a smooth zoom, giving you the possibilities to use it for videos, even if the ring is positioned far from where you usually hold your camera, but in less than a week I could make myself comfortable with the heavy metal lens Sony

I travel a lot, and wanted a good zoom lens

Thankfully mine came from Amazon packed in a larger box with some other items (soft items).I've used super zooms from Canon, Tamron, Sigma and several others and have never felt that I was getting this level of performance.

While, of course, not an equal to prime lenses or even the much more expensive shorter zooms for the Sony, it does a very good job and one has to carry considerably fewer lenses.

The best super zoom I've ever used.

The size of the lens is to be considered compact for such a super zoom lens and even if it brings your camera weight close to a DSLR you don't want to forget you have either 240mm on a 35mm A7 series or 52.5x360mm on an A6000 which have an APS-C sensor and a crop factor of

The Zoom is tight, but it helps me make smoother zooms in video.

For the last 3 years, my basic equipment has been a Nikon D600 or D750 with the 28-300 mm super zoom lens.

Some complain about the stiff zoom ring.

Great general purpose zoom

The zoom is stiff, which I could get used to, but it's worth saying