When someone has a pre-concieved opinion, is it possible to change it?
I think not Will, but for those poor individuals who use "that horrible
piece of coke bottle glass" I have some valuable news.

For you Will, well, you've already made up your mind so you might as well
not read any further.

The 18~55 kit lens which comes with a Digital Rebel and a 20D is not glass
but acrylic plastic. It has the distintion of being one of the lightest zoom
lenses Canon make. It is also a pretty good lens in it's own right and I
offer a few examples of it's resolution capabilities, it's chromatic
suppression and it's ability to shoot directly into the late afternoon sun
without flair. Oh, did I mention image taken with that lens on a 20D enlarge
to 2 feet by 3 feet without loss of detail? Well they do!
http://www.ryadia.com/

AJ.

All the irrelevant stuff which was below has been snipped out

"Will D." wrote in message
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Now you're making assumptions that are "intrinsically" invalid. How
many people have bought a DReb kit with that horrible piece of coke
bottle glass, and thought they were doing just great? And inevitably
some of them will wind up here, trying to get answers to questions they
don't know enough to ask.

Will D.