Yes, a 24mm to 70mm zoom is REALLY handy....you get a wide 24; a moderate wide at 28mm; a semi-wide at 35mm; a semi-normal in the 40 to 45mm range; normal at 50mm; and the 70mm end is a short telephoto lens. In primes, 24/28/35 are ALL VERY different lengths. At 24mm, people and objects placed near the edges of the frame tend to distort, and "tip over a bit", whereas at 28mm, that distorting tendency is very much less significant, which means that 28mm and longer is more suited to a more "naturalistic" rendering than is 24mm.
35mm focal length on full-frame is very useful; Not much distorting of shapes on corner- and edge objects or people, and it also covers about one foot horizontally for each foot back from the subject, which means 35mm is very easy to work with indoors, in "social photo" situations. It might surprise some people, but noted portrait/boudoir shooter Sue Bryce uses here Canon 35mm f/1.4 as her MAIN LENS for portraiture...I saw her state that on Creativelive.com. I found it interesting that she also very frequently has to warp fat-looking upper arms on her female subjects...again...35mm DOES produce some distorting in apparent size of the near and the far...the near arm on a person shot half-body with a 35mm lens WILL BE DISTORTED to a noticeable degree, compared against their head and far arm's size.
I think the rendering of the 45 to 60mm focal lengths are interesting for "street" and "scenic" shots. 50mm is a normal, right? Well, a 58mm lens is a MUCH more narrow-angle lens, one that focuses the view, narrows the view, forces the view to be applied much more carefully than with 50mm.
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