Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your equipment is pretty much the secret to ... everything, including knowing the internal software results you get ;)

When photography was a bigger hobby for me I had an old digital camera that had a great lens, but tiny sensor and could be slow exposure wise. It did have a great set of built in color modes that I had trouble emulating in software ( and didn't want to spend time on that a great deal ) so I kept around and got a cheap-o mono pod and blamo it's slow nature was less of an issue.

Folks with fancy new equipment seemed to struggle emulating what I got with relative ease.

Now I probably couldn't emulate what they did in many situations, but I didn't try either, I knew what that equipment could do and it worked.

The world of photography is a funky world of pixel peepers, TRUE---ish advice, and folks throwing tons of money at equipment and software and hours of editing and ... just sticking with some specific equipment for a while / learning it's nature can save you A LOT of time and money.