What Is A Kit Lens? What You Need To Know Without The Irrelevant Detail!

Right. A kit lens is a camera lens normally sold with a camera body as part of a starter kit. The most commonly sold kit lens is the 18-55mm lens, although other focal length kit lenses are sold. Kit lenses are at the lower end of the price and quality ranges and are aimed at new photographers looking to upgrade from phones and fixed-lens cameras.

There is no formal definition of what a kit lens is.

And that's the killer in all of this. There is no formal definition of what a kit lens is.