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.”
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The oldest millennials are in their early 40s now but to boomers they will always be teens.
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."
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Even the digitals you had in the 00's didn't have very good red eye correction (if any at all)
I distinctly remember the first digicams to be worse than analogue in this regard
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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Is bait.
"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.
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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.
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.
im 40. im a millenial.
...im old
<.<
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Boomer forgot how millennials are old enough to have had to have film developed.
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!
I'm gen z and I still remember that time.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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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bait
How, uh, young do you think millennial are exactly? Pretty much all of us were around for cameras before phones.
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But that isn't a picture of a demon. Thats fucking lucifer.
That looks like an edited picture of a human to me.
It's the character Lucifer from the show Supernatural
Nah it's Jacob from Lost doing his acting side-gig when he isn't on the island.
I'm a millennial and my first camera used film cassettes similar to these ones.
110 film! The first time I figured out that capacitors hurt was when I dropped a 110 film camera. The front plate popped off and when I tried to pick up the camera, I touched the wrong part of the circuit board and the flash cap discharged into my hand. I dropped the camera, and it recharged the capacitors. I picked it up again and got zapped again. Was not the brightest kid. Picked it up more carefully and popped the front plate back on. Camera was fine. Entire cartridge of film developed perfectly.
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.
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Millenials grew up going into a store to have photos developed from film.
Millennials are between 29 and 44. They are turning into the old generation.
This meme feels like it is 10 or more years old.
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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.
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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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Mhhh... yes, we millenials who are approaching or are already in our 40s... what's all that red eye stuff about?
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!
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).
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