- 256MB Olympus XD-Picture Card
- Olympus xD-Picture Card
- Designed for maximum durability
- Compatible with most products that use xD cards
- Supports the Panorama function found on most Olympus digital cameras
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The Olympus xD-Picture Card is compact for smaller and more stylish digital devices. It's powerful for amazing memory capacity now, and increased memory capacity in the future. It's durable, making it a media you can trust with your most valuable data. And it's versatile, for unprecedented device flexibility. Olympus xD-Picture Cards--the most advanced digital media cards ever for the best digital images yet. Nothing's impossible.
Quickly and easily transferring images and data to a computer is a cinch when the Olympus xD-Picture Card is used with any xD-compatible product. And it's just as easy using non-xD devices as well, thanks to a number of groundbreaking adapters that will be available, including a CompactFlash Adapter, SmartMedia USB Reader/Writer, and PCMCIA/PC Card Adapter.
Designed with the most advanced storage technology available, the Olympus xD-Picture Card system meets the memory capacity needs of today, while also being readily available to fulfill the increased memory capacity needs of tomorrow.
Olympus xD-Picture Cards are the only xD cards that support the Panorama function found on most Olympus digital cameras.
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Olympus xD-Picture Card
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
97 of 98 people found the following review helpful
I bought this card for my olympus 300 digital camera just before leaving the US for 2 weeks in Europe. I used the card daily, taking at least 50 pictures at high resolution a day. One day I actually shot over 200 pictures. It worked flawlessly every time.
240 of 259 people found the following review helpful
Measuring at an incredibly small 0.8 x 1.0 x 0.07 inches, xD picture cards are a new flash storage format jointly developed by Fuji and Olympus, the two largest manufacturers of digital cameras in the world, as a futuristic successor to the SmartMedia card. The xD cards are actually manufactured by Toshiba, known for its promotion of the competing Secure Digital (SD) flash storage format, and are about 1/3 the size of a SmartMedia card and slightly smaller than SD and MMC cards. (Confused by the alphabet soup yet?)
Sidebar: xD stands for "extreme digital"
But smallness does not mean lameness. Fuji and Olympus promise very high read/write speeds (3MB/sec for writes and 5MB/sec for reads) as well as lower power consumption for the xD cards. They also claim that eventually xD's capacity will reach 8GB (!!!), although no timetable has been set. Right now xD cards come in 32MB, 64MB, 128MB and 256MB flavors, and generally cost 50% more than same-capacity SD cards, but their prices are likely to drop quickly as more digital cameras accept the format.
Which brings us to the critical question, how many digital cameras accept xD cards? Not many at this point, and digital cameras that accept SmartMedia cannot use xD. But given the market clout of Olympus and Fuji, we'll surely see more xD-friendly models soon. The question is whether other camera producers (Canon, Nikon, Kodak, Toshiba...) will also adopt the technology. My prediction is since Canon has made a commitment to continued use of CompactFlash, they are unlikely to go with the xD. Toshiba manufactures xD cards for Fuji and Olympus, so they may adopt it if they see serious commitment by the latter two.
Since so far few cameras use the xD format, there is little real-world comparison between xD and competing formats such as SD and Sony's MemoryStick/MemoryStick PRO. Whether you'll need xD is entirely dependent on whether the digital camera you choose will accept it. My advice is pick a digital camera without regard to the storage format it takes, because all the formats out there -- SD, MMC, SM, CF, MS, and now xD -- get the job done.
37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Several reviewers have indicated xD memory is a commodity. Buyer beware: If you have an Olympus digital camera, and you shoot in the Panorama mode (which I use regularly and really like when snowboarding and backpacking), you HAVE TO HAVE AN OLYMPUS BRANDED xD CARD; non-Olympus cards don't support and won't enter the mode
Most Recent Customer Reviews
a must have for all camera owners
If it were a film camera, you would have a hundred rolls of film with you.
Published on January 30, 2010 by Richard B. Spurgeon
A perfect transaction
These were exactly what we have been looking for, they are so expensive elsewhere when we could locate them. Read more
Published on November 29, 2009 by William Patterson
Good Memory card
This is a good memory card, a lot of space, Good price. A must have for taking pictures with a digital camera.
Published on October 11, 2009 by Jason
xD camera card
made recent purchase thru amazon for xD card for olympus uz750.
this is an older model camera and had no success finding a card
shopping. Read more
this is an older model camera and had no success finding a card
shopping. Read more
Published on January 28, 2009 by William F. Howard
TOOK OVER A WEEK FOR THEM TO MAIL IT!
I ordered the "refurbished" version from "Happyezdeals" for my son in Oregon. I expected him to have lots of pictures for me already, but then I just got an e-mail that they had... Read more
Published on March 6, 2007 by K. Draper
Returning Item xD Picture Card
I am sure this item will work for anyone who make the purchase. However, it was not the correct item for my old digital camera. Read more
Published on February 14, 2007 by A. T. Heggs
No complaints
This card has been great for like 3 months. It has 320 pictures on my Olympus d535 camera. No problems. Read more
Published on September 28, 2005 by CA girl
Just a memory card
There is not so much to say about it, but it had a good price here.
Published on September 20, 2005 by Aníbal Rojas
Lots of Capacity in a Tiny Package
This memory card does exactly what it's supposed to do: it stores lots of images. It appears to be very tough and reliable. Read more
Published on September 19, 2005 by Robert Winning
pretty decent
There should not be much quality difference for this kind of products, so the price is the major concern. The price here is pretty decent.
Published on September 15, 2005 by R. Chen
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