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

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        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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        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.

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        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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          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.

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      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.

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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.

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      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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        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.

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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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    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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      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.

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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?

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    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!

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        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.

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          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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    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!

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.