Boomer forgot how millennials are old enough to have had to have film developed.
I’m gen z and I still remember that time.
Pissed the hell out of my boomer photography enthusiast dad. Somehow, I ruined every photo he took off me.
Somehow, I ruined every photo he took off me.
“How many times do I have to tell you not to open the camera door?! You can’t see the picture yet!”
Somehow, I ruined every photo he took off me.
Our level of rebellion knows no bounds!
Red eyes also happen on digital photos.
Well you gotta stop taking photos of me just after I’ve smoked a fat joint, man!
Millennial? No we don’t we were there the whole time…
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.
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Red eye happens because of the flash. So still happens on digital cameras. It’s just nowadays they automatically detect and correct for it after the shot has taken. Or some cameras can do a pre flash before the flash for the shot fires or a light turns on when you half press the shutter button. That way the pupil will shrink and less light will enter the pupil and not light up the back of the eye.
I hate cameras that do the pre-flash with a burning passion, there’s a period in time where every (flash) photo of me either has me with my eyes closed or visibly straining to keep them open.
Wait until they find out about GenAlpha
im 40. im a millenial.
…im old
<.<
“Millenials” just means “people younger than me” now.
And at the same time, “boomer” means anyone over 50, somehow. Soon I will be a boomerlennial.
As a Xennial, this terrifies me, but I’m thankful I’m old enough to dodge the draft when the first round happens.
I hope I never have to utilize the skills GI Joe taught me.
Xoomennial
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.
Is bait.
The oldest millennials are in their early 40s now but to boomers they will always be teens.
And people acting like “boomers” are now usually Gen-x.
True. It is not a boomer who made that meme. It is either a troll or yet another bitter Gen X.
: Takes a sip of a juice pouch:
It is true. A millennial becomes more bitter with age.
: smacks tongue, eyes roll back as though recalling a childhood memory:
But millennials have these… : swishes liquid millennial over palate:
Bracing tannins that challenge you and require further observation.
: Looking at cup:
And he pondered, how DID he find himself at some sort of pre-historic blood ritual? Was this not his beautiful wife? Was this not his beautiful car?
As far as mental maturity goes I skipped from 15 to 65, which is to say I’ve never truly behaved as a normal adult free of childish and/or eccentric whims.
Using the most common definition of those born 1981-1996: Oldest millennials turn 44 this year, youngest turn 29. Next year we’ll official transition to “30s to mid 40s.”
Wow thanks I’m going to go cry now
Don’t leave me high. Don’t leave me dry-igh-igh…
Even the digitals you had in the 00’s didn’t have very good red eye correction (if any at all)
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.
I immediately jumped to magical thinking and every person you took a picture of was robbed of blood.
Before anyone asks, yes, I’m on the line with RL Stine as we speak.
I distinctly remember the first digicams to be worse than analogue in this regard
Red eye correction didn’t come to the default camera app on iPhones until 2013.
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…
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).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.
I distinctly remember early Facebook and its predecessors being filled with red-eye pictures
It was the flash. That’s why cameras flash earlier now.
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.
With film cameras, you got me. No clue. I always wondered though.
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.
So I was right??!!
Yes
Well, that’s it. A first (few) flash(es) to contract your retina, and then the flash to take the picture.
Millennial here, have taken plenty of pictures during the end of the demon uprising in the mid-late 90s. It went on for a while.
I’m a millennial and my first camera used film cassettes similar to these ones.
110 cameras were the absolute best!
You beat me to it. It was so satisfying to brute force the… Advancement square(?) between each shot. Made me feel like a spy, even though the camera was being blue and my sister had covered it with stickers of holographic dolphins.
It wasn’t all Orange Julius and great music.
SATANIC PANIC!!!
I, Gen Z, am old enough too remember the red eyes on photos? What is this trying to say xd
That people make shit up.
I’m GenZ and I remember when Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at my school.
Some people don’t get it
I’m a millennial and I remember when Abraham Lincoln walked past the window at school and smiled and waved.
He was going to the bathroom.
I’m GenZ and Skibidi Rizzler Ohio
I hope I did not spark a generational rift here, I only wanted to share a funny meme I found.
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.
Yeah, everyone younger than your generation is a young whippersnapper who doesnt know the olden days. We got that.
Out of curiosity, how old are you?
I am Gen X
How young do you think millennials are? You seem to have us confused with zoomers and gen alpha. I’m not even one of the older millennials and not only grew up with film cameras, but my parents still had a rotary phone when I was a child.
Ok boomer
You done fucked up. There is no wrath like a millennial accused of being young.
How, uh, young do you think millennial are exactly? Pretty much all of us were around for cameras before phones.
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.
Millenials grew up going into a store to have photos developed from film.
After holiday dinners, my grandpa would bust out the faux-leather bound Polaroid, mount it to a tripod and tell us all to stop moving, “It’s not a movie camera!” Then he’d be amazed it was almost ready 5 seconds later. Every single time.
I remember when a flash was essentially an exploding bulb. Before me, they made a pop sound. In the 70s, there were cubes that rotated so you’d get multiple uses, IIRC. The real pros later had strobes but also, just bouncing the light off the ceiling and such cut down on the red eye which was really about light shooting directly into the eyes. That direct light also created harsh shadows and washed out features.
My shirt 110 camera had a plug(boot?) that you could stick a bar of eight flash bulbs in to. Every picture triggered a super satisfying ‘snick!’ and one of the bulbs would be blown out.
I guess that’s better than igniting a pile of phosphorous for illumination, but, what a waste!
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.
And when it’s not red, you have a serious issue going on. This is actually how a couple initially noticed something was wrong with their toddler’s eye. Turned out she had cancer. She’s a healthy adult now, with a glass eye, but I have never looked at red eyes in photographs in a negative way since then.
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.
