Every story the camera industry tells is a claim about the picture, and most of them fall apart when you check. The gear that has actually changed anything for me changed how I behave instead, which is the part no product page can show you.
Almost everything we believe about photography arrived without ever being examined: the good light, the sharp frame, the lens that supposedly sees the way we do. What is left when you stop accepting the defaults, and why the shape of a photograph belongs to whoever is making it.
A year of #fotogedanken, distilled into one piece: photography is a practice you do for yourself, in a world that keeps insisting it is for an audience, a platform, or a purchase.
If you shoot anything outside of standard visible light - like deep infrared or UV - you need to know which demosaicing algorithm is actually going to save your image from turning into a colorful mess of artifacts.
Honestly, you can't just click through tutorials for this stuff because everything - from setting the white balance to choosing a demosaicing algorithm - requires manually overriding what the software thinks is right, which means abandoning your favorite easy-to-use program entirely.