iPad pro 12.9 as a vlogging camera

So today, because I have nothing better to

do, I'm going to be making a vlog on the

iPad Pro. Can you see it?

Yes, it does look that ridiculous.

So this is what it looks like when you

vlog on a gigantic iPad. It is really

heavy and my hand's starting to hurt.

Isn't it But it is really nice to have a

massive screen to make videos on, but you

need really long arms. I'm holding my arms

out as far as I can right now, and this is

as far as I can get it away from me. It's

just not wide angle at all. Look at my

arms. I don't know if you can see this.

Look, that's how my arms are. They're just

straight out, and I can't get it any

further away from me. It's really hard to

do. The sun setting.

Doesn't it look really pretty? The other

thing is there's no stabilization, so

prepare yourself for shakiness.

This is so stupid. This is probably the

worst idea I've ever had.

Vlogging on an iPad Pro. Maybe I'm the

first person in the world to be doing

this. It's so heavy just

to hold with one hand. I have to walk

around with 2 hands raised in front of me.

What do you think? It looks— it doesn't

look too bad, doesn't it? The front-facing

camera, what is it? It's like 2

megapixels. This is what you get for 2

megapixels. The sun's setting, so it's

going to be pretty dark, so I guess we can

also test the low-light capabilities.

My arm is very achy.

I guess the trick is to hold it with 2

hands and just do it like this. I don't

really know else how you could do it. Can

you imagine if you saw someone walking

down the street using an iPad to vlog? It

would just be so funny. You know how

people always say, please don't take

photos on your iPad? Please don't take

videos on your iPad, you look ridiculous.

I hate it when people say that. Don't tell

me what to do. If I want to take photos on

my iPad, I'll bloody well take photos on

my iPad. And why wouldn't you want to take

photos on an iPad? The camera is pretty

good now, and it's really nice having a

gigantic viewfinder to frame your photos.

Look at this. I need to take a rest, my

arm is killing me. So I guess we could try

out the rear-facing camera for a bit.

Looks pretty unimpressive. Look at that,

it's terrible.

Look at the graininess, and there's no

wide angle, it's super zoomed in.

Let's go, let's have a look at the digital

zoom. Oh,

that is terrible.

I paid £700 for this. Look at the quality.

I do get a little peed off that this iPad

is so expensive. It's like £700 and they

can't even give you a decent camera. They

must have— they must have put like a $5

camera onto this. They didn't even— they

didn't even try, did they? I guess it's

because no one does this. Uses an iPad for

this purpose, but it would have been

nice if they put a nicer camera onto the

iPad Pro, just, just in case you do need a

camera. I mean, sometimes you do need a

camera on your iPad, but what if you're

doing like a Skype call or you need to

take a photo of something and you want to

send it to someone? It'll be handy to have

a nice camera on your tablet. Maybe you

can get like a— maybe you can get like a

gigantic selfie stick for it, then I could

hold it further away from me like this

maybe. Or maybe I could just put it on the

ground. I've got a kickstand.

I don't know if you can see my trousers.

Yeah, I do wear shorts on the outside of

my trousers. Don't ask me why. I just find

it comfortable. It's like one of those

things that you like that kind of comforts

you even though it doesn't really make any

I could vlog like this. Can you hear me?

I've got my plug-in mic plugged in so the

audio should be better and it's freezing

out here. I just woke up half past 4.

It's not as dark as it was last time. I

think my shorts are on back to front.

I don't really

know what else to say. Would I use an iPad

Pro for vlogging on YouTube? No, I

wouldn't. Why? Because it's bloody heavy.

I guess it'll give you a good workout.

You need like gigantic muscular arms to

use it as a vlogging camera.

So, um, what don't I like about vlogging

on the iPad Pro? The iPad Pro vlogging

experience. Well, like I said before,

it's really heavy. My arm is killing me.

I have to use 2 arms most of the time.

It's really not wide-angle. This is— my

arms are fully extended and I can't get it

any further away from me. Which is fine,

I guess. I don't really see why you need

wide-angle for vlogging. All you want to

see is the face, right? And for

low light, it's not great, but you can

actually see me, which is quite

impressive. There's pretty much no

sunlight. The sun has gone down. The sun

has gone down over there.

It's terrible. It's terrible, isn't it?

This is going to be the first and the last

vlog on iPad Pro, so don't worry about

that. If you didn't enjoy the experience,

you won't have to suffer another one of

these. It's freezing.

Luckily I didn't drop the whole thing. My

nose is all red. You know,

there is one nice thing about vlogging on

this gigantic iPad. It's just you

can see yourself so well. Like, when you

take a video on a camera, you get a tiny

little screen and it's really difficult to

see what you're filming. It's a bit better

on a smartphone because the screens are a

bit bigger, but this is gigantic. It's

like, it's like this big. And I guess,

yeah, you can just stand it up on the

table. I guess you can make a vlog like

this. I'm exhausted after—

this thing's so heavy. So yeah,

it's nice having a gigantic screen to vlog

on. What else is nice? That's pretty much

it. The camera quality is shit. It's

really hard to hold and carry. It weighs a

ton, and it costs like £700. So you're

paying £700 For a 2-megapixel camera, is

that value for money? No, it's not value

for money. For £700, you could get an

amazing camera. You could get— I don't

even know what you could get. You could

get a mirrorless, you can get a DSLR, you

can get— you can get anything.

Anything's better than this.

But I thought it'd be interesting, right?

Why not? Why not vlog? On the iPad.

I've got nothing better to do.

Now actually, after putting the iPad down

on the table and just sitting here,

I feel like I actually quite like the

experience. You know, it gets tiring even

holding a tiny camera up like this all the

time to vlog. It really starts to tire,

wear your arm out, and still it the video

gets all shaky, doesn't it? Even with

stabilization, it's going to be shaking

all over the place because it's hard to

hold something stable in front of you for

long periods of time. And then you get the

iPad, you just put it down on the table on

its stand, and it just stays there

perfectly still. You don't even have to

hold it, you can just sit in front of it.

And it's not like it's a tiny little

screen, it's a gigantic screen, so It

feels like I'm talking to a person. I'm

looking at myself and I'm talking, and it

feels like I'm talking to myself instead

of talking to a little black device.

That's kind of sad, isn't it? You know, I

feel like sometimes I feel like Tom Hanks

in that film Cast Away. He has his

football Wilson, and he slowly starts to

get more and more crazy. He starts to talk

to Wilson. Treat Wilson like he's a real

person. And sometimes when you're on your

own, all you have is yourself to talk to,

that you, you can make imaginary

characters that you talk to. Why does the

mind do that? Isn't it interesting

that being lonely, alone, is such

a negative thing for the mind Your brain

has evolved so that you don't

become alone, because being alone is just

like— well, back in a long time ago, if

you were alone, you were pretty much dead.

You can't survive on your own. Humans are

social animals. They live in social

groups. They can't really survive alone.

If you get injured, you need your family,

your tribe members to look after you, get

you food. If you're injured and you're

alone, you're pretty much screwed. How are

you going to get food? That rhymed. So

it's like, it's evolution, isn't it?

Loneliness, it stops you from being alone.

What you want to do when you get lonely,

you want to seek out people. It's like an

automatic response. So And

when you get lonely and you don't have

anyone around you, then I guess it's kind

of a natural thing to do to start talking

to yourself or talking to inanimate

objects. And people even talk to their

pets, even though the pets don't

understand a word you're saying.

Sometimes it's nice to talk to your pets.

It does feel like they understand you

sometimes. They probably don't.

What do they know? They know nothing.

They know nothing what you're saying.

Now, back in the day, in the cavemen days,

I guess people who didn't get lonely and

were happy to be alone— or maybe,

maybe there were people like that, but

they just died because they walked off

into the jungle, they walked off into the

forest alone, thinking that, hey, I don't

need anyone, I can do just fine by myself.

And then they broke their leg and they

couldn't move and they couldn't get food,

or they got eaten by a tiger because they

were alone. If they were a group of

people, then a tiger wouldn't really

attack a group of people, would it? So

maybe there were a bunch of people who

were immune to loneliness. It didn't

affect them, and they just died out

because being— having

the ability to be lonely, I think it's a

powerful survival tool. You get lonely and

you seek out people, and people are

stronger together. They can do more

together. They can work together. We're

not lizards. We're not— what other animals

live alone?

Most animals do live in packs together

because it makes sense. Not many animals

live alone their whole lives. Maybe

snakes. Snakes— you don't really see packs

of snakes roaming around, do you?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure snakes and lizards

don't feel lonely. Yeah, I actually

quite like vlogging on the iPad. I just

finished looking at the videos I just

took, finished editing them on iMovies,

and I quite like the way it looks. It

looks nice. I like having a 2-megapixel

camera. Now sometimes less is more. I

don't really see why you would need any

more than 2 megapixels, so this quality is

fine. And then you can just use the

kickstand to prop it up. Look,

see, I just have it resting on my

table. I don't have to hold it, I don't

have to worry about shakiness. You just

put it on the table and you have this

massive screen It's like you've got a

mirror in front of you. And the problem is

I keep looking at myself like this. See,

my eyes are like looking to the side.

That's because I'm looking at myself. The

camera is here. See, I should be looking

into the camera, shouldn't I? Like this.

But it's really difficult not to look at

yourself. It's like you want to look at

yourself when you're making a video,

don't you? So my eyes keep like looking to

the side. Also, there's no pause

button. Look, can you

see? See, where is it?

All you get is a stop button. There's no—

look at how many faces I have. Look,

1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It just goes on forever.

That is weird. Can you see that?

It just goes on forever, getting smaller

and smaller. That's so weird.

Look how many hands I have. Whoa.

Does that just go on forever? It just gets

smaller and smaller until it's just like

one pixel that you can't even see. That's

so strange. It's like a wormhole. Maybe

it's like a doorway into a parallel