Pocari Sweat bottles
Description
- Title:
- Pocari Sweat bottles
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Pocari Sweat (ポカリスエット; Pokari Suetto) is a popular Japanese soft drink and sports drink, manufactured by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. It was launched in 1980 and is now also available in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
Pocari Sweat is a mild-tasting, relatively light, non-carbonated sweet beverage and is advertised as an "ion supply drink". It has a mild grapefruit flavour with little aftertaste. Ingredients listed are water, sugar, citric acid, sodium citrate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium lactate, magnesium carbonate and flavouring. It is sold in aluminium cans and plastic bottles and as a powder for mixing with water.
The reference to sweat in the name of the beverage tends to have a certain offputting or humorous connotation for native English speakers. However, the name was chosen by the manufacturers originally for the purpose of marketing the product as a sports drink in Japan, where people generally do not mentally translate names appearing in English and are therefore not bothered by the connotation. It was largely derived from the notion of what it is intended to supply to the drinker: all of the nutrients and electrolytes lost when sweating.
The first part of the name, Pocari, does not have any meaning; the word was coined for its light bright sound.
Description adapted from Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocari_Sweat
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- Asia
- Hotel room
- Japan
- Kansai region
- Kansai-chihō
- Japanese food
- JPN
- Drinks bottles
- Ion supply drink
- Penshon sutēshon Kyōto
- Pension Station Kyoto
- Pocari Sweat
- Pokari Suetto
- Sports drink
- ペンションステーション京都
- ポカリスエット
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- _DSC1205a.nef
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- 2592px x 3872px
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- JPEG
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- Original Image Color Profile:
- Nikon Adobe RGB 4.0.0.3001
Location
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- Sublocation:
- Pension Station Kyoto
- City:
- Kyoto
- Province/State:
- Kyoto Prefecture
- Country:
- Japan
- World Region:
- Asia
- Location Created:
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- Sublocation:
- Pension Station Kyoto
- City:
- Kyoto
- Province/State:
- Kyoto Prefecture
- Country:
- Japan
- World Region:
- Asia
- Geo-location:
- 34.990325, 135.75711333333 View on map
Rights
- Copyright Status:
- Copyrighted
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- Rights Managed
- Available for Editorial Use:
- Yes
- Available for Commercial Use:
- No
- Copyright Notice:
- © 2009 Dave Kennard
Camera Data
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- Shutter speed:
- 1⁄90 s
- Aperture:
- f/2
- Camera Model:
- Nikon D200
- ISO:
- 400
- Exposure Compensation:
- 0
- Focal Length:
- 50mm
- Focal Length (35mm equiv.):
- 75mm
- Metering Mode:
- Multi-segment
- Flash:
- No Flash
- Exposure Mode:
- Auto
- White Balance:
- Manual
- Light Source:
- Cloudy
- Exposure Program:
- Aperture-priority AE
Additional shooting metadata
- Lens:
- Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm F1.4D
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- Setup:
- Handheld
Post Processing
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- Nikon Capture NX 2
- Post Processing:
White balance adjusted in CNX2
Room key at bottom of image cloned out in CNX2
Curves adjustment to brighten in CNX2