New member and new to Digital

[Anbesol]

Well, 1 year ago the MSRP of the A700 was 1300 body only, and the A350 was 700, even at this difference I chose the A700.

Cougarjim - you will want something wide. More extreme wides will create a lot of distortion (linear, perspective and barrel distortion), which makes for unpleasant looking photo's and also more difficult to stitch together in post processing. Anything below 24 will have way too much of a distorted impact on the shot image, so I think you'll find the 24-35mm range much more important. I'd recommend checking the same 16-80 zeiss, minolta legacy wides, or the sigma's (24-70 or 18-50).

[cougarjim]

The camera I bought comes with the 18-70 kit lens. How would that work?

Jim