Advantages: Huge capacity, tiny format Disadvantages: Olympus own-brand are sold at a premium
...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 existing formats (Compact Flash, Smart Media, MicroDrive, SD, Sony's Memory Stick etc) the xD card was designed to offer high transfer speed access, large ... ...although not all xD enabled Olympus cameras (mainly the older ones) support up to this amount of storage!
The main difference between Olympus cards, and Fuji ones is that the former offers 'panorama' picture mode to be used on their cameras. This comes at a slight premium, so if yours is a Fuji - there's precious little point in buying them!
Why would you want as much as a gigabyte of storage? - well - at the highest resolution, my 1Gb card in ...
dobieg 08.11.2005
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Advantages: more than enough photos Disadvantages: only really useable in cameras
...problems although my camera is olympus so if it was another brand it may be a bit slower. The only disadvantage about this card is, is that it can only be used in my camera, unlike my SD card which can be used in my PDA and phone. Finally cost, on the high street from such retailers as Dixons you can expect to pay 35 pounds. However over the internet you can easily knock 15 pounds off that and even more if you look hard enough. ...
alimason 28.08.2007
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