Today, was a day from Hell…. Started off OK, but slowly went downhill.
This afternoon I had a video shoot that started off very well. There was a slight hiccup when we noticed that we forgot 1 half of our wireless lavalier mic across town, but somebody went and grabbed it with 2 minutes remaining before the main focus of the shoot that we were hired to do started.
After two hours of shooting, I looked at the second camera and noticed some green banding across the image…. basically meaning that the footage from the second camera was now unusable. Because of the time limitations of shooting DSLR, for corporate presentations, we run a two camera shoot and offset the start times so we can deliver a seemless video file covering the entire event.
After seeing this image, I was very distressed.
Notice the Green horizontal banding across the image?
So this means that we are going to have to send a camera off to Canon to get repaired, and I’m going to have to work some major magic in Final Cut Pro to deliver this video.
10 Minutes after this, I received a phone call that clouded my head even more.
After driving back to the office, I thought that it would be best if I took the cameras back with me and apply the new firmware update and see if I could resolve this green banding issue. When loading the camera case into the car, I put my iPad on top of my car. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I NEVER DO!!!
Driving home, I heard a rattling noise on my car, and looked out the rear view the and saw something black fall from my car. It took a few seconds but then I pieced it together….. IT WAS MY IPAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I stopped the car, turned around to pick it up, got out of the car just in time to watch a pickup truck run it over.
It was truly one of those “NOOOOOOOOOOO” moments. The thought actually crossed my mind about running out in front of the truck, but it all happened so fast. Hoping for the best… my heart sank as I picked it up, and turned it on to a white screen with coloured lines.
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I honestly think that the iPad did survive the actual fall from the car, the apple case i bought does provide some protection.
The back of the unit is very dented.
So, the perfect end to the day.
I really did enjoy having my iPad, even for 12 days. I guess lesson learned, NEVER put anything on top of your car!
