Sigma 18-125mm on Canon d40?

Question

I'm looking forward to buying a DSLR and considering different camera/lens options. Choice of camera is more or less clear - Canon 40D, but lens is a tough one for me: D40 comes in kit with Canon EF 28-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS USM and they have a quite good prices now. Only concern is that this lens is not wide enough for APS-C camera as a general purpose lens (I'm not planning to buy additional lenses for a while).

I found a new Sigma 18-125mm f/3.8-5.6 AF DC OS HSM lens which seems to be more flexible, but there are no decent reviews on it... If someone has this Sigma lens please let me know how well it is working with Canon body. If you found any reviews on this lens form Sigma please send links.

Also are there other lenses in this range (Canon mount, same focal length range, price category, preferably with image stabilization) that I could consider?

Answer 1

Currently there is nothing in that range that Canon makes.  Hopefully there will be soon, since Nikon has an 18-200mm VR lens out.

The Sigma lens is pretty new, so it will take a little while for real world reviews of it to come up.

My solution is to use the 24-105mm f/4L IS lens.  It's not quite as wide or quite as much telephoto as the Sigma, but it's a little bit wider than the 28-135mm and a little bit faster as well.