(Almost) sensational lens!

I have the objective now for four months, it accompanied me on two city breaks and four family parties ... well, the large DSLR can remain permanently at home. The image quality is also at maximum aperture at all focal lengths fantastic, Distortion is practically unnoticeable and the mechanical processing is very good and accurate. I can not say whether the tube made of metal or plastic, I tend to metal, but it is definitely well made, although the finish so has a tinge of blue-violet ... well, a matter of taste really.
Unfortunately, the stability mechanism is not completely silent, you can hear a kind of rotation noise, even if it is only once not noticeable when taking photos and movies. When viewing the Movies but it builds to a not to be ignored, disturbing background noise! For this, I have to deduct a star but unfortunately.
An advantage is that the lens is always the same length, regardless of the focal length or distance setting. At one GX1 This looks unobtrusive and harmless, so succeed wonderful beautiful cropped portraits of fellow human beings, which the not wait ... so a small camera from so far away.
Otherwise there's not much to say: aperture ring there's no, the narrower focus ring forward cranks the focus is scanned and processed electronically, and three times as wide zooming ring sweeps just an angle of approximately 60 ° to a focal length between 35 select and 100 mm. Affects only surprisingly little, but works fine in practice.
For polarizing filter users: The filter remains in its position stand ... always!
I think this push is the best thing that Panasonic has built to date! Apart from palavernden stabilizer times, I would highly recommend this lens highly enough, in spite of the prices proposed, because you have a little bit compare and negotiate. (Note, though: I film but hardly!)

PS Included is -next to the obligatory Gewebesäckchen- a black sun visor, which is to be set definitely made of plastic and can -When transport upside down on the lens, to save space.