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...cameras embody this trend more completely than three new 35-mm models from Olympus, Chinon and Yashica that are making their debuts in U.S. camera stores this month. Not only are they packed with computer chips and high-tech features, but each also sports a new, high-tech look, one that owes more to the smooth curves of the video camcorder than to the basic rectangular design that has dominated 35-mm cameras since the 1924 Leica Model "A." Says Yasuhiko Nakayama, the veteran video-camera designer who created the Chinon Genesis: "We wanted a unique design concept to match...
...twists, including infrared beams for focusing in the dark, automatic exposure compensation for subjects that are lit from behind, and a built-in zoom lens for wide-angle and telephoto shots with a flash unit smart enough to narrow or widen its beams accordingly. The zoom lens of the Chinon Genesis is hand operated; in the Yashica Samurai and Olympus Infinity SuperZoom 300 it is powered by push-button controls...
...three models, the Olympus SuperZoom makes what are perhaps the most impressive technological leaps. To keep its weight and cost down, the camera uses a separate viewing window rather than the so-called single-lens reflex design adopted by Yashica and Chinon. To ensure that what the photographer sees matches what is captured on film, Olympus engineers had to link the viewing window to the main lens in such a way that the viewfinder zooms as the lens does. Yashica and Chinon avoided this complication by using the standard SLR prism-and-mirror arrangement that lets one view and shoot...
...before his guests. Mitterrand's conversation at these gatherings was often far removed from electoral concerns. Recounts Brother-in-Law Hanin: "We talked about Jean Renoir and his films, theater, trees and tennis." Even as the new President was being helicoptered to his own parliamentary district, at Château-Chinon, to vote in the first round of the legislative balloting, he appeared utterly oblivious to politics, absorbed in a contemporary Japanese novel...
...usual aloof attitude toward reporters, François Mitterrand seemed to want company during these final hours of his long vigil. Yet he is a failure when it comes to small talk and so he had avidly seized on a remark about how it always rains here in Chateau-Chinon. Forthwith, he proceeded to launch into a lecture on local meteorology...