An iPad in Your Way

[blospz]

Call me old fashioned, but I believe if you want to take photos of animals at a zoo, you bring a camera. Now I can somewhat understand using your cellphone if you forgot your camera. But there's a new trend that's been bugging me; the iPad. Now we got these big screens blocking our view so someone can get a picture. I'd rather see the real thing then a blurry shot in front of me, thank you. Does this annoy anyone else?

 

[Maguari]

Oh, don't get me started. Using an iPad as a camera looks ridiculous, blocks others' view, risks damaging the iPad (as they're not really designed to be held out at arm's length in a busy public place) and frankly just comes off as wanting to show off your iPad! As you say, phones are fine as a camera substitute, no problem there - but wafting about a piece of electronics the size of a dinner plate is just barmy.

 

[Ituri]

but wafting about a piece of electronics the size of a dinner plate is just barmy.

ZooChat quote of the week, right there.

 

[Newzooboy]

Here, here......

Who would design a camera like that!!

Just goes to show how people desperately want to find a use for their 'tablet' after considerable expense only to find that it's really just a glorified phone and if you want to do anything useful you need a proper PC!!

 

[SMR]

This is a huge pet peeve of mine. There's no reason to use a tablet for photography at a zoo or anywhere else other than "oooh, look at me, I bought an xyz, isn't it cool".

Well no, you look like a complete numpty.

 

[BeardsleyZooFan]

I was walking with a relative at Beardsley Zoo and we see someone with an Ipad just walking around with it, looking like it will drop at any moment. I say, "Who brings an Ipad to a zoo?", and my relative is like "Why not? It works as a camera."
I think sometimes only ZooChat people can see the hazards in doing certain stuff at a zoo.

 

[AnaheimZoo]

People who take photos using their iPads think they're so professional, but when I show up with my video camera and tripod I'm the one getting laughed at. Now, how does that make any sense?

 

[Hix]

a complete numpty.

My new word for the day. And my new favourite word.



Hix

 

[nanoboy]

I have never seen this at a zoo, but I did see it at Disney World in Hong Kong. We were queuing to take a pic next to Mickey Mouse, and the woman in front of us kept taking pics with an iPad. On closer inspection, I realised that it was an imitation iPad (one of the budget tablets).

(This post was typed using an iPad by the way. )

I was at a garden depot over the weekend and I used my iPhone to ask Siri if rain was expected later. The elderly couple nearby looked at me as though I was a time traveller from the future. I wonder if they told their Bingo buddies about how annoyed they were at me?
Folks, get with the times: a lot of people carry their iPads everywhere, and indeed, you will start to see a lot of people using iPad Minis soon too. Yes, it does look silly but it's not such a big deal unless they block your view.

 

[gentle lemur]

It doesn't happen if you're using a 500mm lens
But a middle-aged lady did it to me when I was composing a shot of a pregnant seal cow with my 105mm at Donna Nook yesterday.

Alan

 

[Chlidonias]

just how smart are the people who buy iPads?
Woman swindled by iPad fraudster

12 November 2012

A Texas woman has been swindled by a petrol station fraudster who convinced her to buy a $200 iPad that was actually a mirror.

Jalonta Freeman said she was at the petrol station with her sister when they were approached by a man in a car who said he had some iPads and laptops to sell.

With Christmas approaching she leapt at the offer of a brand new iPad for only $200, a quarter of the usual retail price.

She paid the man and he quickly drove off.

But when her sister unwrapped the package she soon discovered she had been conned.

"If you turn it on the back, it actually looks like an Apple iPad," Ms Freeman said.

"And when you turn it to the front, it has the prices and stuff."

But she quickly noticed the prices peeled away to reveal a mirror underneath.

"I just started cussing," she said.

"I was upset. Anybody would be upset if you found out you just got scammed, you know what I'm saying? You just lost $200."

Ms Freeman said she felt pretty stupid and wanted to warn others never to buy anything on the streets from anyone.

 

[nanoboy]

just how smart are the people who buy iPads?
Woman swindled by iPad fraudster

Haha. The cons keep up with the times - unfortunately, your technological devices do not.

About 10 years ago, some friends were in a car at a petrol station and a guy approached them selling a laptop for a really low price. It was brand new and he switched it on for them and it worked fine, so they paid him and everyone went their own way. While driving down the road, they opened the laptop bag he handed over, and there was no laptop. Instead, there were 2 bottles of Pepsi. Obviously he had a second bag and misdirected them when the did the switcheroo.

As you said somewhere else, there is nothing new under the sun. And as PT Barnum said, a sucker is born every minute.

 

[Chlidonias]

Haha. The cons keep up with the times - unfortunately, your technological devices do not.

About 10 years ago, some friends were in a car at a petrol station and a guy approached them selling a laptop for a really low price. It was brand new and he switched it on for them and it worked fine, so they paid him and everyone went their own way. While driving down the road, they opened the laptop bag he handed over, and there was no laptop. Instead, there were 2 bottles of Pepsi. Obviously he had a second bag and misdirected them when the did the switcheroo.

As you said somewhere else, there is nothing new under the sun. And as PT Barnum said, a sucker is born every minute.

when you say "friends" you really mean yourself don't you?

 

[nanoboy]

when you say "friends" you really mean yourself don't you?

Me? Buy a laptop off the street? As though I didn't have one already? If I gave a story about some "friends" who queued up for an Apple device at an Apple store and XYZ happened, then I would probably mean myself. Like the time a "friend" went to the wrong branch of HMV in London to see the gothic rock band HIM, and by the time he got to the correct branch, the queue to meet them was 2 blocks long.