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[–] [email protected] 277 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Millennials are old enough to remember analog cameras and photos of people with red eyes. Man, people need to update their definition of which generation is “young.”

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The oldest millennials are in their early 40s now but to boomers they will always be teens.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Using the most common definition of those born 1981-1996: Oldest millennials turn 44 this year, youngest turn 29. Next year we'll officially transition to "30s to mid 40s."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow thanks I'm going to go cry now

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Even the digitals you had in the 00's didn't have very good red eye correction (if any at all)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

I distinctly remember the first digicams to be worse than analogue in this regard

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It was so bad that the PC software that came with the camera often had a red eye removal feature. I remember being fascinated when I figured out you could use it on things other than eyes and it just took the red out of anything.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Millenials" just means "people younger than me" now.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And at the same time, “boomer” means anyone over 50, somehow. Soon I will be a boomerlennial.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Hell, even the older Gen-Z grew up with analog cameras, VHS players, paper maps, and no computers.

I'm not sure people realize zoomers are almost 30, and millennials are nearing 50.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

im 40. im a millenial.

...im old

<.<

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Wait until they find out about GenAlpha

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Boomer forgot how millennials are old enough to have had to have film developed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I'm gen z and I still remember that time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Red eyes also happen on digital photos.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mate I'm a millennial and I had my photos developed at the chemists. You're thinking of gen z.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (8 children)

You're thinking of young gen z. I am gen z and as a kid I also had some of my photos developed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Either way, I think we can agree that millennials know what film is. Many of us have even developed it ourselves. You know back when people were thought things other than app development and learned helplessness.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Millennial? No we don't we were there the whole time...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right? Who made this? What millennial doesn't remember red eye, it was in every damn photo when I was a kid and Im not a particularly old millennial.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a Millenial, grew up with a polaroid. This meme is just wrong.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Even beyond that the 1980s is like the start of millennials. I'd ask if this was made by LLMs but I'd expect even those to get something that dumb correct.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How, uh, young do you think millennial are exactly? Pretty much all of us were around for cameras before phones.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I had a super cool N64 film camera that I took with me to sleepovers and took lots of shitty photos with because I was a dumbass kid that didn't know anything about photography.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Millenials grew up going into a store to have photos developed from film.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

When the fuck do we get to retire from the "young and stupid" category?

Also, I had red eyes in most photos from my child- and teenhood. I spent a lot of money on film in my teens before I got my first phone with a proper camera in 2007.

Next you're gonna condescendingly explain what a floppy disc or a cassette tape is too? Even Gen z is old enough to know about those.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I don't think you properly understand how generations work.

  • A Boomer is anyone older then me who I disagree with.
  • A millennial is anyone younger then me who I disagree with.
  • Someone from Gen Z is anyone younger than me who uses a technology (usually a social media site) I don't like.
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I, Gen Z, am old enough too remember the red eyes on photos? What is this trying to say xd

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

That people make shit up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm GenZ and I remember when Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at my school.

Some people don't get it

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Millennials are between 29 and 44. They are turning into the old generation.

This meme feels like it is 10 or more years old.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

People call "millennials" young because they are old but too proud to say "teenagers".

Plus the generational infighting is what the ruling class will use to replace or supplement the culture war.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Wait, do digital cameras not do the red eye effect? Now that I think about it, I don't think I've seen a photo with red eye in it in a long time, but I had always assumed that was a consequence of the camera flash, not the film...

Edit: TIL that camera redeye does come from the flash, but it hasn't been much of a thing these days because today's phones/cameras adjust the flash timing to compensate. Thanks for the replies!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hardly anyone takes photos with a flash anymore.
Phones instead crank up the sensitivity and use AI to get rid of the noise (=draw an image that vaguely resembles what's in front of the camera).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

The sensors themselves are also slightly better than 20 years ago, much less 40. Meaning they can probably produce a nicer image before all the AI shit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was the flash. That's why cameras flash earlier now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh god , remember the anti red eye flash that strobed for a second before the flash?

I still don’t understand how that worked. At the time I thought it was “getting your eyes used to the bright light so they wouldn’t turn red with the big flash,” but that definitely doesn’t make sense.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I still don’t understand how that worked. At the time I thought it was “getting your eyes used to the bright light so they wouldn’t turn red with the big flash,” but that definitely doesn’t make sense.

I understood it as the red eyes you see in photos is the wide open iris of an eye you're photographing zooming in on the blood vessels in the back of the eye. Flashing bright light before the photo makes the iris of the person you're photographing contract significantly, so you can't see the blood vessels in the back of the eye anymore.

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Mhhh... yes, we millenials who are approaching or are already in our 40s... what's all that red eye stuff about?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fun fact some may find disturbing, when you see a red-eye photo you're actually looking at the inside of the person's eyeballs. Red-eye in photos happens when a camera flash reflects off the back of the eye, specifically the choroid, a layer rich in blood vessels behind the retina. When the flash is too quick for the pupil to contract, the light enters the eye and bounces off this red tissue, giving you a great picture of the inside of their eyeballs. I hope everyone enjoys knowing that as much as I have.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I hope I did not spark a generational rift here, I only wanted to share a funny meme I found.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

You’re fine. Millennials love to remind people that they are in fact middle aged, while acting offended about it. Source: am millennial.

Thank you for contributing content to lemmy, and sparking engagement to boot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah, everyone younger than your generation is a young whippersnapper who doesnt know the olden days. We got that.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Families wouldn't know demons walked among them until the photos were produced. Usually by then the demon clued in and left its host without a trace before it could be exorcised.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

One thing I found interesting is!how red-eye reduction works - it pre-flashes you eye briefly, before the main flash. So your pupils constrict and light doesn't reflect off the bottom of your eyes. Yes, you are part of the mechanism!

Some strange kind of bio-mechanical symbiotic mechanism is that!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

SATANIC PANIC!!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Let him find out the hard way that the demons won

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

People still fall for the "generational" bait?

The American generational names only exist because the person who gets to name the new name get a ton of cash to spread the definition, even though those definitions are completely arbitrary.

source: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/generation-myth-leadership-bobby-duffy.html

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