Particle board is the real enemy" could be my autobiography title honestly @alicea26, I've lost that war twice.

...and nobody ever mentions that raw files need debayering too, which is like the secret handshake of astrophotography. You can't just open a raw in a normal viewer and expect to see anything, especially not a faint nebula. I spent a solid hour thinking my camera was broken or I'd messed up the focus because all I got was this greenish-black grid of noise. The real kicker is even if you have stacking software, if you don't understand calibration frames - darks, flats, bias - your stack will still look like garbage. So you're not alone, that one-size-fits-all advice is basically a trap for beginners.

Three years without an incident isn't that long in diving years, honestly. People get way too dramatic about gear checks when most issues are operator error or just bad luck. If you're suiting up properly and have common sense underwater, a sticking inflator is easily handled without a full checklist.