Originally posted by audiobomber I suspect the way the OP worded his post has influenced people. He wanted to "cover range from i guess 10-300". That leads people to include their favourite super wide and zooms for maximum coverage. I'm one of the ones who seems happy with coverage to 16mm.
I guess the better way to have run the thread would be to have a poll asking people what they thought the focal length range of an ideal kit would have been.
Having said this, however, I don;t think it would have changed much.
People that own the 12-24 or the sigma 10-20 would still have
A) said 10-12mm was necessary, and
B) still included their lens be it the 12-24 or the 10-20
While I listed 4 zooms in my present "ideal 4-5 lenses" I do also own primes, at last review 24F2.5, 28F2.5, 35F2, 50F1.4, 58F2, 100F4 macro, 105F2.8, 135F2.5, 300F4 and 400F5.6., but to get the coverage over the focal length, in 4 - 5 lenses, I need to use only zooms. In reality, the poster really got many people's "ideal travel kit. add one body and away you go, ready to shoot almost anything.