davidd’s A DOLL A DAY 2022

[davidd]

I take it your point-and-shoot doesn’t have a spot-meter option. 

Yay for new glasses. I recently got some for distance vision and was in equal measure amazed at the difference and appalled at how bad my eyes must have been. 

I can see the Dal House forum.

The point-n-shoot has a spot-meter option. I usually keep it set to spot metering. Let me check, perhaps that got changed.
Ohhh... the camera offers spot focus, but not spot metering. The metering system is called "Intelligent Multiple" metering. Usually it works pretty well. And usually I am more on the ball, and I use ex˙posure compensation when there is a wide contrast range, particularly when there are "hot spots." The issue in the above photo is a result of "operator error" rather than a flaw with the camera. I had forgotten until now that the camera offers a "histogram" function. Perhaps I should have that switched on, although the graph is pretty small and clutters up the already small viewfinder.

I'm glad I can still get by with "reading glasses." When I last had my eyes checked, a couple of years ago, the ophthalmologist insisted on creating a custom prescription for my long distance glasses. I got it filled, but I could never see as well out of the "prescription" glasses as I could out of simple readers. I preferred the eye doctor I went to in Hawaii. Every couple of years at my appointment she would laugh and say "you might want to try stronger readers."

The Dal House (and the other) forum came back up for me a short while after my post. I don't know if it was a browser glitch or an internet service glitch.

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