Proto Himbo European on Nostr: I'd say get one or two or three lenses (if you can afford that) for your body, and ...

I'd say get one or two or three lenses (if you can afford that) for your body, and use them a lot until you feel like you know what kinds of photos they take for you. I often use a "normal" length lens (e.g., 50mm on a film SLR which looks, because of cropping, more like 20-30mm or something on a DSLR or digital mirrorless with 4/3 sensor size--smaller than 35mm film size). I use something like that a lot. Prime (i.e., not zoom) sometimes gives you better optical quality, but there are some great zooms, too.

I also often want a 100-200mm zoom or telephoto, and a wide angle (that tokina is maybe a 20mm lens?). I rarely need anything more.

For lots of $$ you can get zoom that will do many of those things pretty well. For less $, you'll get a zoom that does none of those things particularly well.