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| Review | Rating | Last Updated | Good card for the $$, But where's the Panorama feature?
Nice to have enough memory to support the video mode whenever you need it, but why doesn't it support Olympus Panorama mode? It's even branded Olympus (same card as the Fuji branded one), but neither support the Panorama mode in my Olympus C-730. | 4 | 798 days ago | Scan Disk xD Picture Card 512 MB
Good and fast card, very small. Pricing compared to SD-cards not very different any more, so no reason any more to buy not a camera with xD-cards... | 5 | 798 days ago | Don't bother ordering here. Item sent not as advertised-
Pictured is the Olympus-branded xD memory card. Right? Same is also pictured on the printed SanDisk insert. But, what you'll actually get is the Fuji-branded xD memory card which is cheaper because it is specifically NOT panoramic capable. Item appears to have been switched by either Amazon or it's source and plastic re-sealed bu glue or heat. Someone trying to "stick" Amazon with a swap? Possible. I sent a note to Customer Service to alert them of the error. They said "sorry" from India and would correct and resend. Guess what....I got another pack with the same erroneous Fuji memory card. In my book, this is called "bait and switch" and I believe it's illegal in most States. Do I dare let Amazon "fix" this error again? What do you think? | 1 | 798 days ago | Warning: Does not work with Olympus as Advertised
The description listed specifically says "Embedded Panorama feature for digital cameras with panoramic functionality." This is wrong. This card does not support Olympus camera panoramic features. | 1 | 798 days ago | xD Picture Cards - EL STINKO
The mfgr's promo text says it's fast, but anyone who's ever done even an informal test knows it's dog-slow. In fact, xD is THE slowest-reading/writing media still developed. It's also one of the (if not THE) most expensive per MB, along with Sony's "Memory Stick" (now branching out into even more costly "Pro", "Secure" and "Select" subformats, hopefully helping to wake Sony-worshipers up (Sony is no longer king, folks; the 90's are LONG over. Keep an eye on Samsung - but that's another review - for the best these days).
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<br />xD's one benefit: It's small; almost TOO small, and really easy to lose, only coming in black. Fuji and Olympus are the ones to blame, clearly hoping to retain unwitting users who end up forced into xD's incompatibility and expense with one of both mfgrs' wide selection of xD-only digicams. Olympus briefly made cameras with both xD and SmartMedia compatibility, hoping the 128MB limit of SM would funnel users toward xD. Most of those users, to Olympus' dismay, chose five or six SmartMedia cards because they were cheap, and because they could at least be read by most (if not all) media readers, unlike xD, which even now very few readers bother to support.
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<br />Oddly enough, Secure Digital (SD) is almost as small, and is one of the FASTEST reading and writing formats in active development. Lots of cameras, MP3 players and other media devices use SD. What uses xD Picture Cards? Cameras. Fuji and Olympus cameras, to be exact. Nothing else of any real popularity. It's unfortunate, but there are a lot of consumer digicam owners who have been humped into a format that has no good reason to exist.
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<br />Advice: If you bought a digicam without extensive knowledge of formats as many have done, watch and wait for deep rebates before buying your xD card(s) and be sure to get an xD card branded by the same mfgr as your camera, as (at least with Olympus) any other manufacturer's xD card (even Fuji) won't allow the 'Panoramic' mode to be | 1 | 798 days ago |
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