I use the long end of the zoom (300mm equivalent) on my Fuji S6000fd camera far more often than the short end, mostly for wildlife pictures, and a lot of the time I wish it could zoom in more. I use the wide end (28mm) frequently for snapshots and landscapes as well but not nearly as much and wider would be even better especially for indoor shots. And I almost never use anything in the middle, so it would be really hard for me to pick just one SLR lens and that (and the cost) is the main reason I don't have an SLR yet, unfortunately. I'd love to have an SLR for the improved image quality, but I'd have to carry a wide lens and a big zoom lens all of the time to fit my normal usage and that's just not very practical.