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I generally leave the house with just the one lens that I intend to use - I have a choice of seven lenses for my digital Canon - and just occasionally a second lens in my pocket. I have spent too much of my life working hard to want to do so when I am supposed to be enjoying myself. My full camera bag weighs over 10 kg and o ly leaves the house when I am going on holiday and then it sits in the holiday home while I go out and enjoy myself.I think they can also help anyone new to photography understand you don’t really need lots of lenses. Just listing the lenses without saying why those lenses probably isn’t as helpful.
Since I’ve gone for a 2 Lens setup I don’t really miss having numerous lenses just in case of what if. It’s much nicer to go out with a camera and 2 lenses than wondering if you have left something at home. It’s much lighter too, carrying heavy kit around isnt something I enjoy. I remember taking a full bag of 5 lenses and 2 cameras to Skomer one year. I mainly used only two lenses on that trip so the rest was mainly extra baggage. I didn’t enjoy carrying 12kg ish around skomer that year. I see some photographers out with every bit of camera kit they own, it just looks heavy and miserable to carry around.