Although I concur with the suggestions to try the Sigma 10-20, you will not get a general purpose lens much below the 16mm mark. I borrow both the Siggy 10-20 and the Canon 10-22 and prefer the Canon for indoor and the Siggy for outdoor. This is due to the autofocus prob Heather suggested. It may be worth looking at a pre-owned Siggy and the Canon 18-55mm from WarehouseExpress for £150.

Al

At the end of the day, AFAIK, the focal length of a lens is EXACTLY the same, no matter what the size of the sensor is. A 50mm lense is a 50mm lens on a 35mm or full frame camera, but while it is a standard lens on a 35mm camera, it is a telephoto lens on a APSC camera.

It might be nice to have the 35mm equivalent printed printed on a Canon EF-S lens, for example, but if you moved from 35mm to medium format, would you expect the same information on a medium format camera lens?

At the end of the day, doing the math isn't that hard.

Some Canon lenses had a focal length equivalence printed on them as did (or do) some Olympus ones. For example , my 70-300mm has had a sticker added next to the original information that says 140-600mm as 4/3 is twice rather than 1.6 x.