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
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.”
Is bait.
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.
The oldest millennials are in their early 40s now but to boomers they will always be teens.
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.
Even the digitals you had in the 00’s didn’t have very good red eye correction (if any at all)
im 40. im a millenial.
…im old
<.<
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.
Mate I’m a millennial and I had my photos developed at the chemists. You’re thinking of gen z.
You’re thinking of young gen z. I am gen z and as a kid I also had some of my photos developed.
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.
Seriously, I remember taking a disposable camera with me on our school trip Washington. I also remember that it was during that trip that we all found out you could open those things up and turn them into mini tasers.
I’m a Millenial, grew up with a polaroid. This meme is just wrong.
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.
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.
How, uh, young do you think millennial are exactly? Pretty much all of us were around for cameras before phones.
Millenials grew up going into a store to have photos developed from film.
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.
Why can’t pride say teenagers
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!
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.
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
With film cameras, you got me. No clue. I always wondered though.
bait
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.
You done fucked up. There is no wrath like a millennial accused of being young.
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.
Edit: I also used a typewriter through high school, although that was mostly for practicing typing skills.
Additionally, while we did have cassette tapes, and later on CDs as well, I spent a considerable amount of time as a child listening to my parents’ record collection.
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.
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!
My dad had an expensive as hell Olympus point and shoot with this. It was so fucking annoying. Took like a half minute for a snap shot and I’d be blind from all the strobing.
But then your subjects relax their pose on the first flash and you have 1/2 the group start walking off by the time the 2nd one flashes.
Mhhh… yes, we millenials who are approaching or are already in our 40s… what’s all that red eye stuff about?
SATANIC PANIC!!!
