First Lens You Bought...

First lens I bought besides the 18-55 that came with my rebel was a used 75-300.

10-22mm ƒ3.5-4 USM

Best investment ever! Is on my camera 90% of the time, but I lost the lens cap over a cliff a few weeks ago...

Canon EF-S 60mm 2.8 macro, great lens, tack sharp and great build, had to sell it when made the move to FF.

28-135mm IS USM then went for tamrom 28-75.

It was 1977, I was 17. I bought a Pentax 50mm Fast f/1.4 SMC Takumar to replace my father's 50mm f/1.8 kit lens that was stolen from me (because of my stupidity) while I was using his wide angel on his Pentex that I was borrowing.

I put the 50mm kit lens on the ground in an abandon building while I used the 35mm wide angle in a different part of the building. I came back 2 minutes later and the lens was gone.

My dad made me replace it -- the store clerk said "no kit lens for sale, you need to buy the upgrade." The Takumar lens was a really nice lens. Many years later, when my father past, my siblings all agreed that I should inherit his camera and gear. I declined because I knew I would never use film again, so my brother took it. That lens is the only reason I sometimes regret that decision; it never occurred to me at the time that there are adapters for it that would allow me to use it with my Canons.

70-200mm f4L. Still have it. Still use it. No regrets.

EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM (Non I.S.)

I'd say mine were all kit lenses to start with so 18-55 but first purchase would have been the nifty fifty.

Aside from the kit lens, it is EF-S 18-200mm for me.

28-300 3.5-6.3 Promaster (looks like or is a Tamron), for my 10d.

Hmmmm... I believe it was both the 18-55 + 55-250 at the same time, then the 50 1.8.

Tamron 70-300, it was utter crap.

Now spoilt with better lenses :-p

First lens I bought? A Canon FD 50mm f3.5 flat-field macro to go with my then-new AE-1, back in 1976 or 1977. I don't seem to recall that Canon was marketing lenses with their bodies as 'kits', and the photography store owner said that 50mm with its macro capabilities will do everything I needed. The AE-1 was my first SLR, as I was fed up with my 35mm viewfinder Minolta camera.

As for lenses for my 'current' body...none. I knew I was going to full frame about 6 months after moving to a 30D from a Canon G-5 point-and-shoot. Shortly after buying my 60D, I started buying EF glass (mostly Ls) and sold off my two EF-S lenes. I upgraded to a 5D3 2 months ago. So far, I haven't found a need for any new glass...yet.

Other than the two kit lens that came with the body - my first purchase was a 85 1.8. I was shooting indoor volleyball and needed something faster. It's still in my bag today.