Olympus M-XD 256 P 256 MB

The Olympus XD picture card is good in many ways, yet it is in the end just another memory card. It has high read and write speeds, and supports the panoramic function in Olympus cameras (not that I regularly use that function)! The capacity of the card could cause problems when used in a camera that takes high resolution photos, although I have never really found this too much of an issue. If I was going on holiday for any great period of time I would buy a memory card of a higher capacity (XD cards are made in up to 1GB). Another downside is that as XD cards are newer than many other card ... more

Over the last 2 years this card has definitely prooven its worth. Coming in at a rather pricey 36 pounds when bought, the price of the card has since dropped dramatically and now you can easily pick one up for less than 20 (for example in Dixons, whilst over the net from Amazon and such you can pick them up for next to nothing (3 or 4 pounds). The size of the card is incredible and this means it is easy to slip as many as you want into your camera case (as large as a penny) and if you have several of them you dont have to worry that if you lose one, you won't lose all your photos. The card can ... more