Customer Reviews

FujiFilm 256 MB xD Picture Card, Type M ( 600004661 )

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How many pictures will it store? It is the most commonly asked question from digital camera enthusiast but usually the question that is the most difficult to get a straight answer about. Well, considering I worked in the memory industry for over 7 years I can help clarify this perplexing question and do so unbiased as I have since changed industries.

The FujiFilm 256MB xD Picture Card, like most 256MB cards, will store on average 284 pictures when used with a 2 megapixel camera, 213 images when used with a 3 megapixel camera, 128 pictures when used with a 4 megapixel camera, 102 images when used with a 5 megapixel camera, and 80 pictures when used with a 6 megapixel camera. These numbers are based off the assumption that you are going to shoot your images at the highest quality JPEG setting available for the camera and understand that they are estimates and may be off by as much as 10 percent due to numerous factors including the complexity of the scene being shot and the compression algorithm used by your specific camera.

I truly hope this review was helpful to you in determining whether this card is the right capacity for your specific needs.

The first complaint I always read about these cards is "They're pricey". Pricey is paying $200 for a 4 Megabyte SIMM for my 486 PC back in the day! Technologically speaking these cards read and write faster and consume less power then any of their rivials (not to mention they are much smaller too!). The prices on these cards has already come down a decent amount in the past few months. It's no different than when SD cards were twice the price of CF now they are only about 50% more. You get what you pay for and if speed, capacity, low power consumption, and small size is what you're in need of, that's what you buy. Having used devices that use CF cards and SD cards I'll say that I appreciate the xD card and find them to be reasonably priced for their advantages over SD and CF. Fuji is a quality company and it's good to see they aren't giving up on R&D of newer media. That said... I hope xD cards stand the test of time and stick around long enough for me to wear out my Olympus C-5050!

Great storage capacity! 256MBytes is big enough to store up all the pictures I can shoot on trips away from home. For example, I can hold hundreds of shots taken at high resolution on my Fuji Finepix 3800 camera (200 shots taken at 3 MPixel resolution, or 640 shots taken at a still respectable 2 MPixel resolution). Pictures download rapidly from this card to my pc, much faster than from a smartmedia card I used in a previous camera. And of course xD cards are so much more compact than smartmedia cards.

On the downside, these xD card are so pricey! For example, Amazon sells 128 MBytes of card memory for about $60 in xD format, and just $35 in smartmedia format. So card format is definitely something to consider if you're still deciding on which digital camera to buy.

I bought this card in conjunction with my Fuji S5000 (which I HIGHLY recommend), and for the three months that I've been using them, they have done absolutely EVERYTHING that I could have wanted. I generally take photos at the 2MP (1600x1200) setting, which gives me reasonable photo size/clarity without taking huge amounts of space--each photo is between 550kb and 650kb, which allows me to take 410 at 2MP. I can get 550 on 1 MP, 325 on 3MP, and 173 on 6MP. On RAW 6MP, I can only get 37 though... this is what makes me consider getting a 512 card, or waiting for the upcoming 1GB card Fuji is developing. I've taken thousands of photos in the few months that I've owned this card, and none have been less than perfect as far as the card's impact on them.

The entire line of xD technology is revolutionary and is REALLY great. It has low battery-drain, it's REAL fast, and it's very versatile. Not to mention small--I'm able to have a rather small camera bag (6"h, 5"w, 3"d) partly because I don't have overly large, bulky cards and cases taking up more space than necessary.

Beyond its obvious application of excellent use in digital photos, I've actually used it like a removable mini-drive, similar to my pen-drive. However, as this card is larger than my 128MB jumpdrive, i was able to bring what i needed even when my jumpdrive was full. this is more useful than imaginable. i'm getting a Fujifilm DPC-UD1 xD USB Drive Reader and a second xD card, either 256 or 512MB to use it just like my jumpdrive. Again, this is EXCELLENT technology, and the BEST OPTION for new digitals.

The FujiFilm cameras seem like an exceptional value with excellent features, but how reliable is the xD card storage medium? I purchased the 256 MB card and it worked just a few weeks before it began to malfunction. When it was inserted into the Alladin kiosks, now at many stores, it had to be reinserted again and again. Then when the pics are printed they are too dark. Apparently one of the metalic contacts has become damaged. Upon close examination it appears far to easy for this to happen. Given the many removals and insertions that may be required using the xD card it seems less well constructed than rival cards. Sadly, this also impacts the usability of the camera. When I contact Fuji, I find a knee-deep phone menu with plenty of deadends, and the customary "due to unusual call volume ...." message. I've received no response to the email or voicemail messages I've left. I'd be less likely to buy a FujiFilm digital product after this experience.

FYI, it takes just over 10 minutes to download 256 MBs worth of pictures. Works just fine.

The xd picture card is a "new" type of flash memory. It's actually been around for a couple years in Japan, but only recently introduced on this side of the pacific. They are faster than other types of flash cards (CF, SD, etc.) and are also more power efficient. But I'm not sure if the real-world performance difference is really that different.

We have owned our camera for less than 1 month and already on our second Fujifilm xD-picture card (256mb). After taking an evening of pictures - we found out the card was defective. All pictures were lost. We had to purchase a 2nd card and after taking a week of pictures on vacation - this card is also defective. All pictures lost. Apparently there is a way to retrieve the pictures, but is a VERY expensive process. I
would not recommend this product at all - very disappointed!

I am using this XD picture card in my new Fuji Finepix camera and it is working fine. I also have a Olympus camera that also uses XD picture cards. I bought the USB reader/writer for my Olympus camera, it attaches to my computer and all you have to do is pop in the card and not have to deal with the camera hook-ups and all that mess. So I figured since it was a reader/writer for XD picture cards that it would work with every "XD" picture card. I was wrong, it only works with "Olympus" XD picture cards and not Fuji. Even though the cards look exactly the same except one says Fuji and the other says Olympus. Can't they make a universal card so there wont be so many extra things you have to buy for everything!? I had to bite the bullet on this and I now manually connect my camera to the computer to download pictures. This annoyed me a lot so I gave it one star, otherwise the card works perfectly.

Well, i bought this item recently, i usually took pics betwen the 2 or 4 mp,...i recomend this product to anyone that needs a cheap option of storage, quality and durability.