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RioRico
Wide-normal 'kit' zooms like the 18-55 are dissed because they're usually 1) cheaply built, 2) slow, 3) soft. Depending on what you want to do photograhically, and on your budget, you have various options:
* You can get an adapter for M42 (Pentax-Praktica) screwmount lenses, and try various cheap manual prime lenses available pretty cheap on eBay. You can thus determine which focal lengths etc suit your style and needs.
* Pioneering photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt famously depended on a Leica 35mm rangefinder and three lenses: 35+50+90. With your APS-C sensor dSLR, these translate to 24+37+60; or, in my kit, 21+35+57. I also add a 12, 90/macro, and 180 or 200.
* Merging the previous two points, you can look on eBay for Russian glass (Helios, Jupiter, Industar, Zenitar, etc), Asahi Pentax Takumar lenses, and whatever Sears, Ricoh, Zeiss, Toyo, Kiron, Tokina, etc lenses you wish to try.
* If manual lenses ain't yer thang, you may have a camera shop in your vicinity that will rent lenses by day or week. Try before you buy, eh?
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