Newbie likes the 28-135 - why doesn't anyone else?

I bought the 30d kit with the 28-135 a year ago and logged about 8,000 pics since then and found it a great lens to learn on, although my good shot/bad shot ratio was rather low.
I picked up a used 18-55 just a few days ago while on vacation to shoot the family at an amusement park and found my shots were consistantly better, and for some reason I didn't need to crop them hardly at all.
I am still going to keep the 28-135, but a wider lens at the right price is a good thing too. Except that I really,really want the 10-22 now!

I am not a newbie and like mine, but know its limitations. I can get good shoots from it and that is what matters.

One of the students in my Digital Photography 1 class had a Rebel XT with the 28-135 lens. She started the class with almost no knowledge and was thrilled with her camera / lens. By the time we were 1/2 way through the class she was talking about wanting a wider lens. When the class ended, she bought a Tamron 18-50 and loves it.

The 28-135 is a lens that she rapidly outgrew. This is what I see as the problem with "beginner" gear. You're likely to outgrow it pretty quickly. Better to spend the money on something that will last a bit longer.

If you already have the 28-135 I'm thinking you should just use it until you outgrow it. It probably won't be too long

I loved the lens as a newbie but I,ve just got home and the lens is rattleling. It would seem that the USM is all broken. I cannot use the main zoom to move the lens at all and it is making a very bad noise.
What would be the likely cost of getting this fixed? Or am i looking at a new lens?

Lee

I got mine used last Monday, my first USM and IS lens, and I fell in love with it just as the thread title says. For newbies, once they got this, 18-55mm kit suddenly become useless, then they'll look for a better lens once you have enough of that annoying lens creep.

I'd love to see the update of this lens once affordable fullframe becomes available.

I have no idea why people consider it a "newb" lens. I already had a couple L's and when I got this with my kit I kept it. I was honestly not going to keep it, but then I realized I had always been looking for a 40-135 IS lens on a crop to mimmick a 70-200 on FF.

It's the closest thing you will get to a 70-200 equiv on FF with a 1.6x. I find it a more interesting and useful lens than a 70-200 on a crop body.

70-200 on crop is really 112-320 too long for alot of landscape and too short for alot of wildlife.
28-135 on a crop is 45-216 which gives you the feel of 70-200 on a FF but with a more useful landscape range due to being wider.