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...pastime that the Japanese learned from the English by way of New Zealand, the maze craze shows signs of catching on in the U.S. Since August, thousands of visitors have paid $7 apiece to get lost in the first American Wooz, which stands for Wild and Original Object with Zoom. The $13 million park in Vacaville, Calif., offers two degrees of difficulty. Claustrophobes need not fear, because three escape routes are provided. Price of a franchise: $45,000 plus construction costs...
...timing of the experiment was not accidental. Each summer, as millions of Europeans pile into their cars and zoom to their favorite vacation spots, thousands end up in grisly pile-ups. "Every vacation it happens the same way," says a Paris insurance clerk. "You have types who load their whole family into a small car and try to drive all night, until they fall asleep. You can look at the map and know exactly where they are going to run off the road. It's always the same place...
...displayed as marks on paper or as blips on a computer screen. The bottom shows up as a continuous line. Fish may appear as "arches," or inverted Vs, in which the depth of the arch corresponds roughly to the height of the fish. Some of the newest units can zoom on a target zone, allowing users to pick out a fish hovering a mere 1 1/2 in. off the bottom. Other refinements include alarms that signal a fish's presence and multihued video screens that are designed to identify various species by a color code -- red for dolphin, for example...
...used to require manual operation but are now automatic: exposure control, focus, flash, loading, winding and film-speed setting. To these have been added some new 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...
...even more striking feature of the Olympus is its "auto zooming portrait mode." The user simply selects the proper setting on the camera's control panel, points and clicks. The lens will zoom in or out to ensure that the subject's head and shoulders are well framed in the viewfinder. "If you want to take portraits of people at a party," says David Willard, a senior vice president at Olympus, "the camera will automatically zoom to give you same- size shots of everyone...