I charged the battery and put a card in the camera last night and left it for the wife to find. She sent me a message and told me how much she loved it, it was smaller and more compact than the t4i and she knew she was going to like it. I should mention she didn't know how to turn it on and she just left it on the table all night. What she sees as value in the camera isn't the same as our view.

Swapping the 18-55mm for the 18-150mm seems to lose sight of the main positive, the small size of the camera. On trips the wife occasional wants a longer focal length lens, not often but the subject always comes up on trips.