Some slrs now have IS too. and the cannon CCD is increadable in low light/higher ASAs
Thats because its not a teeny tiny CCD at all..
its actually a CMOS sensor, and as you say.. its pretty good. I dont have any problems with using ISO 400 at all, ISO 800 is even fairly good. 1600 starts to get a bit grainy though
- if you need ISO 1600 though, your probably a bit of a specialist and probably own something a bit nicer than a 350D, and thus have an even nicer sensor which can deal with 1600 just fine - my dads 20D does ISO 3200!
Im sure the "stock" lens that i saw had zoom, it was also plastic and wobbly at the end... less than quality.
Its fine really, just dont do astrophotography with it, as there is a bit (just enough) play in it to end up with blobs instead of stars.
its absolutely fine for normal stuff, during the day - take a look at any of my trackday type stuff from the last
Combe visit, it was all done on the kit lens. Its never going to equal the quality of the L lens you got to have a play with
~11 / 12x price difference
The kit lens is an 18-55 zoom, F3.5 to 5.6 - It has been mentioned in here, the wonderful 50mm prime lens (non zoom) 1.8 - cheap, and very good.. I really need to get one really but I probably wont, as I plan on getting a 24-70mm F2.8 L series lens, to compliment my big white lens, and hopefully that should be everything ill need.