What does the "spotlight" feature on my digital camera do?

What does the "spotlight" feature on my digital camera do?

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The spotlight mode on your digital camera tells the camera that you have a brightly light subject with a black background or dark background behind it. So, the camera looks at the subject and sets the exposure so your subject (generally in a play or stage production, something like that) will be normally exposed and the background will generally come out too dark in your picture. That's what the spotlight mode's for.