Olympus Optical Co. (Europe) GmbH Olympus 1GB xD Picture Card

With the relentless increase in digital camera resolution, 'traditional' memory cards find it difficult to keep up with technological progress. Add to this, the fact is that new formats live or die by the 'take-up' figures of consumers, it's important that you back the 'right' memory format! It was with this in mind, that Olympus and Fuji got together to produce a joint standard , known as xD-Picture Card. The primary purpose of an xD memory card is to provide removable storage for digital cameras, but that doesn't mean it's restricted entirely to that task. Aimed as a direct competitor to ... more

Out of the 3 cards i own this is by far the best. It is easy to use has plenty of capacity and i think it is more compatible with my camera than the other branded XD cards. But first just a few statistics: if you have a 5, 6, 7, 8 or 10 mega pixel camera this card will hold 815, 675, 570, 500 or 400 photos respectively, which is obviously double the capcity of a 512mb card. You are also able to store at least 18 minutes of video on this card (best quality with sound) and at poorer qualities without sound you are able to hold nearly four hours. In terms of size and weight this card is no bigger ... more