8-16 feels like da 55-300 to me, height is about same. 8-16 feels good to take photos, not heavy.
But about this new 20-40, i really do not think i will find good use for it. For landscape its just not wide enough in most cases. I would take da 16-50 for lanscape, price about same i think. For people and general use its too short, there is 17-50 f2.8 lenses much cheaper than this or sigma 17-70 is very good. Or even da 18-135 wr would do better for me than this. Maybe after i seep pics taken with his new lens, i will change my mind