IMHO Armstrong would have been more preoccupied with a safe landing than setting up good camera and lighting angles. As a good "seat of the pants" pilot he would have used the distance from his shadow as an indicator of height above ground (and to keep the sun out of his eyes) landing with the fromt of the LEM in shadow.
Looking out of the front window his eyes would be adjusted to the bright surface instead of the shadow area. The auto-exposure of the video camera would see otherwise (as the famous video shows).
I don't have a problem with his comments.

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