Thanks Roy. Actually, I think the kit lens gets more bad press than it deserves. Sure it's a bit ordinary and I plan to replace mine too one day but in reality it still produces perfectly decent images nearly all the time. (And for the price, it's almost a miracle.) Sure, I'd rather have a Canon 17-40L or a Tamron 28-75 or a Sigma 17-70 or perhaps the new Canon 17-55 when it arrives .... but only when I've filled up the holes where I don't have anything at all to do the job. (Not too many left now - a proper macro flash, maybe another macro lens or two, perhaps a TS-E.) What I'm saying, I guess, is that you will probably miss a lot more shots by not having a wide angle than you will gain by having a better equivalent to the kit lens.
By the way, I've never quite worked out what to do with a ... No, I'll start a new thread for that - it's way off topic.
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