It was a dark time for all.

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.”
- 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."
  
  And people acting like "boomers" are now usually Gen-x.
  
  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)
  
  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.
  
  Red eye correction didn't come to the default camera app on iPhones until 2013.
  
  My oldest nephew was born in 2003 and I was still having to manually remove red eye using Paintshop Pro 7 from my mum's digital photos of him when was about 6 or 7.
- "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.
- 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
  <.<
- Wait until they find out about GenAlpha
- 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.
  
  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.

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

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.
  
  I believe they are name gen alpha or some other greek letter.
- 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
  
  For some reason I feel like these rules were written by a gen x but iDK why
  
  You totally stole this explanation from Tik Tok, zoomer. I bet you don't even know how to launch Netscape from command line. /S
- Js its kind of dumb to say this here. Your bday is 05/03/1989 right? Do you want me to know that? What about literally everyone who reads this? Not trying to be rude. It's not smart though
  
  If you were concerned, then why not send a private message instead? "Not trying to be rude", sure. Sounds like you're trying to intimidate. Maybe you shouldn't do that.

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

Millennials are between 29 and 44. They are turning into the old generation.
This meme feels like it is 10 or more years old.
- But then they would have been between 19 and 34.

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.
- I think they mean GenZ but this meme looks pretty old so it was probably actuate when it was posted originally.
  
  When millenials were young, they were directly experiencing red eye photos, so there's no way this meme could have ever been right.
  
  I mean, if it was posted when millennials were young, it is still not at all accurate.
- Why can’t pride say teenagers

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.
- 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.

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).
  
  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.
- 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 distinctly remember early Facebook and its predecessors being filled with red-eye pictures
  
  Now that you mention it, I think you might be right... My memory's not the best lol. From the other replies, it seems that the rarity of redeye these days comes from the timing of modern cameras' flash, not whether or not it uses film.
- The red eye effect happens when flash reflects off the retina. Compact cameras (film and early digital) had flash very close to the lens, so there was a high chance of that happening.
  Not much of a chance these days, when most people take photos with cell phones, the cellphone cameras have adequate low light performance so you don't need flash to begin with, and the "flash" is just an LED that isn't as luminous as a real flash bulb.

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

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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.

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!
- 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.
- So that's why the choice seems to be between red eyes or tiny pupils. I have some old photos where the surroundings look really dark, the flash on the people makes them look ghostly pale and everyone has unnaturally constricted pupils. If we were trying to avoid demonic pictures, I think we failed.
- 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.

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.

SATANIC PANIC!!!

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!

Let him find out the hard way that the demons won

Ok, boomer.
- This is honestly the appropriate response
  Although it was probably made by GenX

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

Just happy to see a supernatural based meme 🥹

Yeah yeah the satanic panic.

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.

It wasn't all Orange Julius and great music.

The dark times, before Buffy came along and saved the world.
Now that I think of it, was Buffy her actual name or was it short for something?
- Buffort the third

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

I thought the demon chasing the Winchesters had yellow eyes

We're still feeling the aftereffects even now...

Oh god the red eye in photographs...

Is Supernatural still shooting more seasons?

Is this from Being Human? That's Bishop, right?
- It’s from the TV show Supernatural.
  
  Oooooh right, I should finally watch that. He was great as a vampire in BH, so I just assumed it was from there with those eyes..

I hope I did not spark a generational rift here, I only wanted to share a funny meme I found.
- Yeah, everyone younger than your generation is a young whippersnapper who doesnt know the olden days. We got that.
- 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.
- Out of curiosity, how old are you?
  
  I am Gen X

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