Hello, it's been a year and I've recorded over 90 of my kids hockey games with the iPad Pro 9.7 32GB. For the most part I've had about 95% success with excellent recording functionality. The other 5% is weird, I'll explain.
In some cases over the course of recording back and forth across the rink, (goal to goal) I've noticed the focus seems to get stuck and when it does it blasts the brightness "white balance" to the point where you can barely make out anything on the screen. However, my wife discovered if you quickly tap the screen, it'll refocus and correct itself almost instantaneously, but it doesn't fix the problem per-say, it's almost as if the camera recalls the focus problem and fixates on it when you pan back to that part of the ice where the problem began. I can go all game long without issue then in an instant I get the focus problem and it'll persist on that same exact spot in the ice rink until I stop the recording. Whats weird is I don't have the same problem on the rest of the ice, it's only when I pan back to that same spot. I can come back the next day to the same rink and not have a problem at all. It's happened probably 7 times over the course of the season and thankfully it's always been towards the end of the game and the footage recorded wasn't necessarily important, it's just very annoying to have a perfectly recorded hockey game get tarnished by the last 5-10 mins having to deal with making sure I'm ready when the light blasts again in order to tap the screen so it re-focuses.
Has anybody had this problem before? I must say though, using the iPad to record games is so much better than any palm sized HD video recorder. I also use a few third party add on's. I use a 2x telephoto lens which affixes to a case called an iographer. Stuff works great.
In some cases over the course of recording back and forth across the rink, (goal to goal) I've noticed the focus seems to get stuck and when it does it blasts the brightness "white balance" to the point where you can barely make out anything on the screen. However, my wife discovered if you quickly tap the screen, it'll refocus and correct itself almost instantaneously, but it doesn't fix the problem per-say, it's almost as if the camera recalls the focus problem and fixates on it when you pan back to that part of the ice where the problem began. I can go all game long without issue then in an instant I get the focus problem and it'll persist on that same exact spot in the ice rink until I stop the recording. Whats weird is I don't have the same problem on the rest of the ice, it's only when I pan back to that same spot. I can come back the next day to the same rink and not have a problem at all. It's happened probably 7 times over the course of the season and thankfully it's always been towards the end of the game and the footage recorded wasn't necessarily important, it's just very annoying to have a perfectly recorded hockey game get tarnished by the last 5-10 mins having to deal with making sure I'm ready when the light blasts again in order to tap the screen so it re-focuses.
Has anybody had this problem before? I must say though, using the iPad to record games is so much better than any palm sized HD video recorder. I also use a few third party add on's. I use a 2x telephoto lens which affixes to a case called an iographer. Stuff works great.