Film Testing - Reserve 2024

These are rides that are not listed for publishing yet so they sit in what we call the Tacx Reserve, This list will grow

	T2023.20	Col du Sanetsch
	T2023.52	Pragel Pass, Glarus
	T2023.51	Zoncolan

T205784

Vesuvius, Ercolano

	T2023.53	Rallarvegen 1 (Norway)
	T2023.54	Rallarvegen 2 (Norway)

T2023.16

Farrapona (Asturias)

	T2023.58	Drôme in Fall colours 1
	T2023.59	Drôme in Fall colours 2

	T2024.34	The Ventoux Ronde 1
	T2024.35	The Ventoux Ronde 2 Col de Flassen
	T2024.36	The Ventoux Ronde 3 Nesque
	T2024.37	The Ventoux Ronde 1 to 3 Short Cut

	T2023.42	Eroica Espania 1
	T2023.43	Eroica Espania 2

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Phil70 9 months ago in reply to IliaNSK +1

IliaNSK said:
Coll de Rates is beatiful view!

For sure, I bet the majority of the riders that ride Coll de Rates never see this view though (this is the top of the extra climb thats hidden above Rates called…

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0 IliaNSK 9 months ago

Settings 100% & 100%.

Norse Tour 1-3 - good roads.
Pragel Pass, Glarus - amazing video. Super HDR! Kilometers 19.3 & 19.6 & 20.35 & 23.59 & 25.56 - no road feeling from the cow grate.

0 Swimcrossley 9 months ago in reply to Phil70

Cycled Cezanne 2. Nice ride. No issues with the video. Nice to see other cyclist out

There is a steep short bit on the ride (the steepest bit at circa 15km I think). My Tacx Neo2T slipped on that bit. First time I have seen that.

Well done for cycling into the sun

0 Phil70 9 months ago in reply to Swimcrossley

Swimcrossley said:
There is a steep short bit on the ride (the steepest bit at circa 15km I think). My Tacx Neo2T slipped on that bit. First time I have seen that.

That will be the Neo rather then the ride unless Ive accidentally added the 'ice' effect for road feeling somewhere :-), always try to film into the sun if I can, cinema cameras can handle it & I personally love a more artistic feel to the ride. With a ride thats a big loop with good weather there will be some sun somewhere ;-)

0 Phil70 9 months ago in reply to IliaNSK

IliaNSK said:
Norse Tour 1-3 - good roads.
Pragel Pass, Glarus - amazing video. Super HDR! Kilometers 19.3 & 19.6 & 20.35 & 23.59 & 25.56 - no road feeling from the cow grate.

Good for the Norse Tour, will check out the grates, it might be they are just too short to bother with, if the time on the grid is too short it will not trigger the effect, or might come on & then just remain on (not good haha)

0 IliaNSK 9 months ago in reply to Phil70

Yes they are very short, especially at high speed.

0 IliaNSK 9 months ago

Cezanne 1 & 2. Beautiful road. In the second part it was interesting to ride against the sun.
At the end of the first part there is a strong decrease in the gradient after stopping. Everything else was great!

0 IliaNSK 9 months ago

Cezanne 1 & 2: has your camera's focal length gotten shorter?

0 Phil70 9 months ago in reply to IliaNSK

IliaNSK said:
Cezanne 1 & 2: has your camera's focal length gotten shorter?

We skip between two different focal lengths with the two different cameras, Cezanne was filmed a few years ago when everything was a short focal length (wider angle), its the same camera & lens used for last years Mallorca, Alpine Classic & the Team films, Norway etc. We are now using a more narrow lens with the newer camera...last year 2023 I switched between the two as I could not quite decide which I liked the most. With the recent upgrade we made to the new camera Im completely happy now with the new one.. It's so incredibly smooth & personally, I don't like it if the lens is too wide; I like the hills & distant mountains to look huge & more realistic. The angle we use now feels much more like natural vision. There are down & upsides to going wide angle. Another downside is wide angle means much more movement if the film, this intraduces more compression artifacts..but the upside is more feeling of speed..Going narrow reverses this so we have a smoother feeling climbs as everything moves a bit slower each frame, its all sharper but might seem a bit slow on the flat.

0 IliaNSK 9 months ago in reply to Phil70

I too don't like wide angle. There is strong distortion at the edges.

0 Phil70 9 months ago in reply to IliaNSK

IliaNSK said:
I too don't like wide angle. There is strong distortion at the edges.

The main reason for the wide angle was it acts as an extra stabilizer for the image; any micro-vibrations are mostly too small to see after the films have been compressed. With the new camera I don't have this issue anymore, I can even zoom right in & its smooth as butter :-)