Are you a budding photographer or just jumping in the bandwagon?

If you are going to be serious with photography, go with 50D with its magnesium alloy case and more advanced features. If you just want to buy because DSLR is the "in" thing nowadays, go buy it. You wouldn't care about the lens anyway.

It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare, it's because we don't dare that makes things difficult!