Correction to: Nature Reviews Methods Primers https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-025-00445-4, published online 20 November 2025.

In the version of the article initially published, Reshma R. Rao and Ifan E. L. Stephens were incorrectly listed with affiliation 1 when it should have been affiliation 2 (Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London, UK). In the “Collimation, colour balancing and light guides” section, the equation \(N=\frac{f}{D}\) should have read \(N\approx \frac{D}{f}\). In Fig. 1a, the label “σα(λ)” should have read “∆α(λ)”. In Fig. 5c, the colours in the key were switched and should have been a green dot for “PD — IRM” and the blue line should have been “Jcat”. In Fig. 6a, the bottom label “Redox transition 3” should have been “Redox transition 1”. These corrections have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.