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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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] 9 points 2 weeks ago

SATANIC PANIC!!!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You done fucked up. There is no wrath like a millennial accused of being young.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Out of curiosity, how old are you?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (4 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 2 weeks ago

That people make shit up.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks 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] 3 points 2 weeks ago

With film cameras, you got me. No clue. I always wondered though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks 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] 275 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 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] 22 points 2 weeks ago

im 40. im a millenial.

...im old

<.<

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks 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] 68 points 2 weeks ago (7 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 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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

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