For macro you can also use the 100mm from Sigma, gives you more range which is importend for certain insects. I thought the 70-300 had also macro. 50mm is also very good for portrait (so you can also buy one of many old but excelent 50mm manual focus lenses cheap).
In my experience manual focus nonzooms and autofocus nonzooms let my learn more about composition (used the pancake lens on vakation).
The 9-18 is only a standard lens for it's weight, build and small maximum aparture. The optics are of pro quality (read in tests) and it ain't realy that cheap.
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Olympus E520 - ZD 14-42mm f3.5-5.6, ZD 40-150mm f3.5-5.6, ZD 28mm f2.8 pancake, ZD 35mm 3.5 macro, Nikon 50mm f1.8, Sigma(nikon mount) 100mm f2.8 macro, Sigma(nikon mount) 80-200 f3.5-4.
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