Steve Laxton, Fountain Jones, and Phil Selby

Keeping In Touch With Digital Pictures

When CBS technical director Fountain Jones got the word that he was going to Japan for three weeks to cover the 1998 Olympics, he rushed out to buy a digital camera just three days before his departure. With three children under the age of ten, Jones was looking for a way to stay in touch with his family, while he was off working thousands of miles away.

	Jones took pictures of everything, including the food on the plane!

"I wanted to stay connected with the family. It seemed to me that the best way to do that was to take digital photographs and e-mail them back to the kids," said Jones. "So, I kept a diary, a picture diary, using my KODAK DC210 Zoom Camera."

"I was drawn to this camera because of the Kodak name," said Jones. "But, the thing that sold me on the DC210 was how easy it was to transfer JPEG files to my laptop without requiring a separate software package for image conversion. I just pop my Picture Card with Adapter into the PCMCIA slot on my laptop and I'm good to go."

Japanese Building

When his kids told their teachers about his picture diary, they asked Jones to do something that would be appropriate for use in the classroom. As a member of the technology committee in his district, Jones was only too happy to oblige.

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