Don’t take it personally. Canon sell most of their inexpensive consumer cameras either as camera bodies alone with no lenses or as complete kits with a cheap lens, camera strap and perhaps other accessories included. Such kits are usually aggressively priced, and most consumers go for them since they’re convenient and the supplied lenses are so cheap. The included lenses are usually referred to as “kit lenses,” though they can also be purchased separately if you like.

All L series lenses are easily identifiable by the red ring around the end of the barrel and the letter L at the end of their technical designations.

Most L series lenses are heavy shiny black plastic or white-painted metal. Most newer lenses (since 1999 or so) are weather-sealed though some (the earliest L series) are textured black plastic. The handful of early L series lenses with old-style barrels are not built to the same tough build quality of modern L lenses, though optically they’re fine.