New UltraPan8 film "Ice Bike!"

[Nicholas Kovats]

Five years in the making.

First I walked, then ran and finally put on my skates to "chase" cyclists on ice with my Bolex Ultrapan8 film camera. The Ice Bike or Icycle winter races have been a treasured staple in February for over 14 years. The "serious" heats involve handmade studded tires with a density of 500-800 studs per tire. The funnest part of the evening involves the public non-studded event called The Rubber Race.

Come on join us at Icycle 2015 next weekend if you happen to be in Toronto! 7:00 pm Saturday on Febuary 21, i.e. https://www.facebook.com/events/754435797964839/. Albert "ice emperor" de Ciccio has kindly provided a how-to regarding the construction of the studded tires, i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpvTV3h2zI4.

metadata:

camera = Bolex UltraPan8 2.8 R8

camera_mod = Jean-Louis Seguin (bolextech@gmail.com)

film_stock = Kodak Vision 3 200T 7213, pushed 3x stops (800 asa), full 16mm width of Regular 8mm, color negative (acetate)

film_reperforation = Edward Nowill (edwardnowill@gmail.com)

frame_rate = 24fps

lens = Angenieux 5.9mm

tstop = T2/4

lab = Niagara Custom Labs (niagaracustomlab.com)

scan = bitworks.org