xd cards

Fuji/Olympus/Toshiba decided to bunch together and get a newer flash card format & earn some money on flash cards (like Sony) with their propreitary format. Didn't any of the existing 6 or 7 flash card formats meet their future needs ? Obviously not since they won't fetch any extra money for each card sold !

Maybe they will give up on selling xD based camera's if it hurts their sales big time ? After all they haven't got even 256MB out yet. No significant power difference either between 2600/2650 for example, neither does this newer format make your camera any faster while reading/writing. Ofcourse Fuji can claim any figure they like since no one can verify it, its a propreitary thing.

Well if you have already bought a xD card based camera, you don't have much choice left, do ya ? Go ahead and buy this card, its works fine in F*ji camera's atleast, can't say about Olympus or Toshiba cameras. Ofcourse outside of compatible camera's from these companies its useless, won't work in any mp3 player, PDA, cell phone etc.

Take care not to loose this, its too small & very very easy to loose. Plus its still got the connectors open like Smartmedia, so don't touch on connectors as static electricity can disable it. (What sort of improvement is that Fuji et al ?)

BTW, what brand of xD card you buy doesn't matter, they are all made by Toshiba as of now, just sold under different brand names.

I bought two 64MB XD picture cards, thinking I'd have one for backup if anything went wrong with one of them. I have yet to use the second one, and could probably have just gotten away with using the 16MB card that came with the camera as backup. Then again, if I did more travelling, it's like having two would be a smart move. I have no complaints about these XD cards.

I think these are great, I get a lot more battery life and they allow the camera to be much smaller...they may not be industry standard, but they were created by Olympus and Fuji, so even if they just become the standard in those two companies they'll stay around for quite some time.