Apple iPad saves videographer from foul ball to the face, keeps on ticking

“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.]

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