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So uh yeah, um....ha, ha I'm still working on trying to figure out the light settings. I'm using Jessica's Nikon Coolpix L11 camera which has been dropped a few times and we think the auto flash has gone caflooey since it flashes for everything unless you turn the flash off. Bright light, sunlight, any kind of light or any kind of dark it just flashes on the auto flash setting. Previous to the ground encounters it flashed at night or in dim light on the auto flash setting.

So... since that appears to not be working right it leaves us with too much light most of the time, hence I've started playing with the white balance (which I don't understand) and the +/- keys which change the amount of light through the apeture? (which I also don't understand).

Yes, yes, I could
A) get the instruction book (if we can find it), I could
B) find many answers on the internet (too many-needle in a haystack syndrome) or I could even
C) take a photography class. But no, I'm going for option D:
D) continue muddling through with funny lighted pictures and hope something turns out every once in awhile.

Come on, wasn't that half the fun of the film cameras? Seeing if anything turned out?

Although it really wasn't that much fun when the developer lost your film but it was really fun and funny when you'd inadvertently get pictures other than your own. We were always really good and turned them back in after having a good laugh.

(This is all for humor-not to make fun of someone else but rather that some of the mix-ups were so obvious but whether they send the film out to be developed or develop it in house there's bound to be a few incidences of mislabeling.)

"Why honey, wasn't that a beautiful cruise we went on? Strange, but I don't remember ever being on a ship and I don't know why I'm failing to recognize these people....
Yet the store gave us back these pictures with our name.... could that be cousin Barney and is that Aunt Muriel?"

Thank goodness Jessica took many Paris pictures before the flash went caflooey when she went on her trip awhile back.