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To Tokyo Big Sight

Entrance to Tokyo Big Sight

Photo Imaging Expo 2006 sign

Hallway

To PIE 2006 held in late March.

PIE 2006 ticket booth

Ticket booth

Entrance hall

Main hall on 1st floor

Nikon booth

Model at Nikon booth

Pentax booth

Pentax model

Epson booth

Adobe

Canon boothThe Canon booth was very comprehensive and complete. They had a booth or counter for every imaging-related product, from movie cameras to D-SLRs to poster-size printers. They had everything. Of course the new EOS 30D was the main attraction as well as the 5D. Compared to the 20D, the 30D has a larger LCD monitor, a higher maximum burst during continuous shooting, and spot metering. The 8 megapixels and sensor size are the same. Canon says that this is the optimum pixel count for the supporting technologies in the camera. And that the image quality does not depend solely on the megapixel count.

Canon modelThis Canon ministage was surrounded by EOS 30D cameras which we could use to shoot these female models on the ministage. They let us print out a picture (A4 size) and take it home.

Compared to the 20D, the 30D has a larger LCD monitor, a higher maximum burst during continuous shooting, and spot metering. The 8 megapixels and sensor size are the same. Canon says that this is the optimum pixel count for the supporting technologies in the camera. And that the image quality does not depend solely on the megapixel count.

Canon models (EOS 30D demo)This Canon ministage was surrounded by EOS 30D cameras which we could use to shoot these female models on the ministage. They let us print out a picture (A4 size) and take it home.

Canon model (wireless photo studio demo)Canon also had a photo studio to demonstrate a digital photo shoot with the top-of-the-line EOS D-SLR attached with a remote transmitter which transmitted the images to a computer via wireless. We saw the images appear on the TV monitor as it was transmitted to the computer. You can shoot very quickly, but the images don't transfer or appear as fast. I guess they were RAW. Here the model is showing off one of the photos which was taken and printed on the spot.

Canon lecture

Matsushita's Lumix booth

Lumix

Casio booth's movie mode demo

Photo contest exhibition

Photo studio equipment (4th floor)

Photo exhibition (4th floor)

Photo seminar

Photo talk

Show for kidsVery few kids. Like why would you want to take your children to a camera show? The Tokyo Anime Fair held next door during the same time attracted the kids.

PIE 2005, ticket booth

PIE 2005, Sanyo booth

Konica-Minolta booth in 2005This was the last time Konica-Minolta had a booth at the camera show.

Bye-bye Konica-Minolta

Farewell Konica-Minolta

Bye-bye Agfa2005 was also the last time for Agfa to have a booth.

Canon Kiss Digital N (PIE 2005)

Model for Canon Kiss Digital N

Nikon model in PIE 2005

Olympus at PIE 2005

Kodak and Mitsubishi Paper Mill

PIE 2005 photo contest winners

Big Sight saw

Leaving Tokyo Big Sight

Tokyo Big Sight in sight

Running along Tokyo Big Sight

Right turn here

Turning right for the finish line and posing for the photographer

Official photographer shoots the runners

Final dash to the finish line

42 km mark

Current time: 5 hr. 8 min. 15 sec.

Endless stream of runners heads for the finish.

Grandstands (wet) near the finish line

Finish line grandstands

Finish line dead ahead

Gimme five!

Finish line

Tokyo Marathon finish line

The marathon course was 42.19 km long.

Banzai pose at the finish line

Hi mom!

Man from Akita

Woman sumo wrestler

First-aid team and a stretcher standby at the finish line

Runners after crossing the finish line. Notice the photographers platform.

Runners after crossing the finish line.

A huge number of taiko drummers perform near the finish line. This taiko group is called Kodaijin. 鼓代神 Web site at www.geocities.jp/kodaijin_kdj/

Also see their awesome performance with my video at YouTube.

Taiko drummers near the finish line.

Check out the little girl too. She was good.

Ganbare!

By 3:30 pm, the stream of runners became walkers.

At sround 11:30 am, they cleared the area and brought out the giant kite (odako).

They were going to pull the kite across the width of the park since the way blew that way.

Made of washi paper (from Mino, Gifu) and a bamboo frame, the giant kite measures 13 meters high and 12 meters wide and weighs 700 kg.

The kite is unique for its cutout and hanjimon (判じもん) design.

The hanjimon (判じもん) kite design always has a twin pair of creatures and a large kanji character. Together they form a thematic catch phrase.

This kite's hanjimon has twin dragons that can be pronounced "shin-shin" (辰辰), a homonym for mind and body (心身). And the vermillion kanji reads "sukoyaka" (健やか), meaning good health. So the kite wishes for your "

The four Wind Goddesses pose for us. The four Wind Goddesses (風の女神) are like festival princesses and they beckon the wind to blow during the kite festival.

We visit the giant kite at rest. The back of the kite has many stickers written with kids' wishes.

Higashi-Omi's giant kite is a National Intangible Folk Cultural Property (選択無形民俗文化財) with a 300-year history. It started with villages flying kites for Boy's Day in May to celebrate the birth of a boy.

The villages then started competing in kite-making and the size grew larger and larger. The giant kite they fly today is the size of 100 tatami mats (13 m x 12 m). The Higashi-Omi Giant Kite Preservation Society (東近江大凧保存会) maintains the ki

Meanwhile, at Tokyo Big Sight, a marathon festival was taking place. Numerous food stalls and entertainment.

Chinese dragon dance

Balloon man

Jazz group

Ethnic booth (Afghanistan)

Try riding on a racing wheelchair.

Wheelchairs

Ariake Station

Passing by Tokyo Big Sight, the finish.

Almost there...

Posing for the camera.

Approaching the finish line.

Bleachers at the finish line. (Open to the public.)

View from finish line bleachers.

The bleachers were crowded with people. Unlike last year when it was raining and few people was here.

The 44th Tokyo Motor Show was held on Oct. 29 to Nov. 8, 2015 at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward, Tokyo.

Large crowd wait to enter Tokyo Big Sight to see the Tokyo Motor Show.

160 companies from 11 countries exhibited. A total of 417 vehicles were displayed including 75 world premieres and 68 Japan premieres.

A total of 812,500 attended the show.

New Toyota Prius

Lexus

BMW

Cushioned car

Good Year

Mercedes-Benz electric car

Toyota

James Bond 007 car

Car with lips

Electric cars

Toy cars

2015 Tokyo Motor Show

Nissan concept car

The 7th Tokyo Marathon was held on Feb. 24, 2013. As usual, many runners wore costumes. These photos were taken at the finish line at Tokyo Big Sight.It was a sunny, but cold and windy day when 96% of the 36,000 marathoners completed the run within 7 hours.