Sorry I've been quiet recently.
I had events on 12/19, 12/21, 12/23, and 12/24.
All of these events ended around 23:00 (^_^;
Also one of my mail/web servers was off the net for a couple days.
If you sent me mail and I haven't replied, it might be lost.

I still have events on 12/28, 12/29, 12/30.
I'll go on 12/28 for sure, but I don't know about the rest.

Anyway, onto the Joining event report.

 Event      Joining
 Location   Roppongi Edge
 Date       2003.12.07
 Time       19:00 - 22:50
 Cost       3000 yen
 Guests     Izumi Rika
            Miyano Shizu
            Ogata Satoko
            Shintani Sayaka
            Mori Natsuko
            others

I went mainly to watch (and take pictures of) Izumi Rika and Shintani Sayaka.
But I wasn't really into it, as Seri Ayano wasn't there..

The stage flowed as follows.

 -  Song by Sayaka, Satoko, Shizu
 -  Mori Natsuko
 -  Kobayashi Mai
 -  Izumi Rika
 -  Takeda Mayumi
 -  Asakura Haruka
 -  Kawai Haruka
 -  (Mizuno Aoi tribute medley) [by everyone]
 -  Shintani Sayaka (3 songs)
 -  Miyano Shizu (3 or 4 songs)
 -  Ogata Satoko (3 or 4 songs)

The medley went in the following order:
Natsuko, Satoko, Rika, Asakura Haruka, Sayaka, Mayumi, Shizuko, Mai.
(I don't remember if Kawai Haruka sang in the medley.)

Sayaka and Shizu both sang new solo songs.

photo notes
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Photos without flash allowed, video not allowed.
After each guest sang, there was a one minute photo session
where flash was allowed.

I took 910 pictures with my 10D, with 567 of them worth keeping.
Since I didn't bring my computer to this event, I couldn't download
the pictures anywhere.  So my CF cards (I only have 3.5 GB) filled up.

During the event, I switched from Large/Fine JPEG to Large/Normal JPEG.
Going to normal mode allowed me to take twice as many pictures in the
same time frame, as the file sizes are about half of the fine mode.
Looking at the JPEGs on the computer, I can't see any difference
between normal and fine, but maybe there will be a difference if
I print them out.

My photo counts per girl was as follows (after tossing out the bad ones).

 Shintani Sayaka    | 306
 Izumi Rika         | 146
 Miyano Shizu       | 141
 Mori Natsuko       |  93
 Takeda Mayumi      |  71
 Asakura Haruka     |  63
 Ogata Satoko       |  61
 Kobayashi Mai      |  49
 Kawai Haruka       |  35

Pics at http://photos.usagi.org/joining/20031207/

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Hitoshi Doi
http://www.usagi.org/doi/                                    doi@usagi.org