Recording summary · November 2016
iPad pro 12.9 as a vlogging camera
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Overview
Daniel tests vlogging with an iPad Pro, finding it heavy, unstabilized, and difficult to hold at arm's length despite having a large screen viewfinder, while also noting that the camera performance and cost compare unfavorably to dedicated cameras.
Setting the device on a table with a kickstand prompts Daniel to reflect on human evolution, social dependency, and loneliness, noting the practical benefits of propping the device up to record.
While recording, Daniel struggles with the impulse to look at oneself instead of the camera lens, observes that the recording interface has only a stop button without a pause option, and notices an endless recursive screen effect displaying shrinking faces and hands reminiscent of a wormhole or parallel doorway.
Themes
Physical strain and field of view limitations while holding an iPad Pro for handheld vlogging.
Camera performance, lack of stabilization, and value comparison against dedicated DSLR or mirrorless cameras.
Evolutionary perspectives on loneliness, social dependency, and speaking to oneself or inanimate objects.
Re-evaluating the iPad Pro as a desktop vlogging setup using a kickstand and iMovie.
Difficulty looking into the camera lens instead of looking at oneself while making a video.
Absence of a pause button on the recording interface, leaving only a stop button.
Visual screen recursion creating infinite repeating faces and hands shrinking into a tiny pixel, resembling a wormhole or parallel doorway.
Developments
Daniel records video outside at sunset while testing the iPad Pro's front and rear cameras.
Daniel wakes up at 4:30 and plugs in an external microphone to test audio in cold weather.
Daniel edits recorded video clips in iMovie and watches the results.
Uncertainties & gaps
Whether Daniel is the first person in the world to vlog on an iPad Pro.
Whether past humans who felt no loneliness died out due to leaving groups and lacking mutual support.
Whether pets understand human speech when spoken to.
Whether the infinite repeating visual effect truly continues forever.