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Before 8 am: Women do a warm-up lap.It wasn't exactly warm, but they had wet suits. Odaiba's water is not exactly crystal-clear clean either.

To Tokyo Big Sight

Women at the starting line for triathlon

Entrance to Tokyo Big Sight

Photo Imaging Expo 2006 sign

Starting line

8:10 am: And they're off, taking about 30 min. to swim 1.5 km.

Hallway

Also see the video at YouTube.

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

Turn-around point for another lap.

Pentax model

Out of the water and racing to the bicycles.

Epson booth

Adobe

Taking off the wet suit and getting on the bicycle.

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.

Bicycle the pavement for 40 km, taking about an hour.

Canon lecture

Cycling for triathlon

Matsushita's Lumix booth

Spare wheels

Lumix

Casio booth's movie mode demo

Photo contest exhibition

Also see the video at YouTube.

Photo studio equipment (4th floor)

Photo exhibition (4th floor)

Photo seminar

Photo talk

Baskets for running shoes

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.

Changing from bicycling to running.

PIE 2005, ticket booth

Changing into running shoes.

PIE 2005, Sanyo booth

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

Statue of Liberty replica

Bye-bye Konica-Minolta

Farewell Konica-Minolta

Running a few laps.

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

Running in triathlon

Canon Kiss Digital N (PIE 2005)

Also see the video at YouTube.

Model for Canon Kiss Digital N

Akiko Sekine who later won the women's triathlon.After cycling, they ran for 10 km. About 30 min. later, this woman, Akiko Sekine won the triathlon. She was one of athletes who went to the Athens Olympics (placing 12th).

Model for Canon Kiss Digital N

Nikon model in PIE 2005

Olympus at PIE 2005

Finish line

Kodak and Mitsubishi Paper Mill

PIE 2005 photo contest winners

Men's triathlon starting line

Big Sight saw

Leaving Tokyo Big Sight

Hirokatsu Tayama, he wasn't the first to finish swimming, but he won the triathlon.

Same route as the women.

Running shoes

Finish line

Hirokatsu Tayama, winner

Nicknamed Miraikan, The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation is a science and technology museum in the Odaiba area in Koto, Tokyo. US President Barack Obama visited here on April 24, 2014.

The museum director is Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri, so there are a good number of space-related exhibits.

A long line of people wait to enter the museum in Sept. 2013 on the last day of the Thunderbirds exhibition. This is before the museum's opening time.