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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-07-20 09:03:45)
One time I read an article that said photographic film was racist because it was developed to make it easier to photograph light things than dark things because it was made by white people.
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-07-20 09:09:42)
The truth is that they had calibration cards that included a white human subject but it an irrefutable fact that capturing light and dark in the same photograph was a hard problem and the problem went away as they improved the technology rather than because of complaints about racism

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just cell@cell@shitposter.world (2026-07-20 09:15:20)
@sun i would argue that early photographic film wasn’t racist, it was just humanphobic due to how it was sensitive to more blue light rendering anyone, dark or light in a weird, “hyperreal” way

E.F.S@joey@stereophonic.space (2026-07-20 12:35:03)
@sun lol maybe they had a point
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