“People often give iPad photographers a hard time for trying to use an unwieldy tablet as a casual snapshot camera,” Michael Zhang reports for PetaPixel.
“Tom, the iPad photog seen in the video above, is one person who is glad he was using his iPad as a camera,” Zhang reports “You see, his iPad-ography saved him from a good deal of pain.”
Zhang reports, “8 seconds into the video, we see a batter hit a foul ball that unfortunately flies straight at Tom’s face. Luckily, his iPad was in the perfect position. It deflected the ball away from Tom, saving his head from a good deal of pain. What’s more, the iPad doesn’t appear to have sustained any damage of its own, either.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t make fun of iPad photogs, especially those who shoot video vertically. Don’t make fun of iPad photogs, especially those who shoot video vertically. Don’t make fun of iPad photogs, especially those who shoot video vertically…
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jeff C.” for the heads up.]
It was so nice MDN spoke it thrice!
Heh MDN those where stills.
It doesn’t matter if it’s photo or video, shooting in portrait mode is most often ridiculous. There are exceptions to the rule, but they are few and far between.
The image on the iPad is well framed. You can go about your business. Move along… move along.
The subject being taller than it is wide is not all that unusual. He was shooting in the best mode for the subject matter. Do you laugh at pro photographers with vertical grips too.
Hey, it’s his friggin’ iPad; if he wants to hold it diagonally that’s his business. I don’t care if you’ve been published in National Geographic magazine, just bugger off and s.t.f.u.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, except for the part about the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union. Lost me there….
I’m looking at the iPad specs on Apple.com and don’t see anything about shielding one’s face from the danger of foul balls. Maybe they should add that to the list of features.
And let this stand as further testament to the superiority of 4:3 tablets. If he was using one of those skinny 16:9 Android or Surface tabs, this guy might be dead right now from inadequate protection.
LOL MDN!!!!
Are they really playing baseball on a football field?
My question is how did the ball get past the chain link fence that is between the batter, catcher and umpire at home plate and the spectators in the seats? He should play the lottery after that.
It’s a football field, so there is no chain-link fence, just some netting.
It’s netting. Used temporarily for quick setup.
I can’t help but think of what would have happened to a plastic Samsung. Can we all say DOA?
This begs the question though of whether he would have needed saving had he not had a plate-sized obstruction over his face in the first place.
Get an iPad. Have a ball.
That guy looks like he’s a coach filming the batter, in which case portrait mode is entirely appropriate.
What drove me crazy was to discover that I shot a bunch of fab 1080 vacation videos last summer which were technically upside-down…
Hey, I need to have SOMETHING to play on my vertical TV! 😉