Olympus 2GB Type M XD Card with panorama function
Posted by Notcot on Apr 2, 2010 in Photography |
Product Description
Ultra-compact with fast data transfer rates, the Type M xD-Picture Card is currently available with up to 2GB of storage capacity. This type of technology will allow capacities to reach up to 8GB in the future!
- Ultra-compact and lightweight One of the smallest flash media cards available
- Provides high read/write speeds necessary for todays newest digital cameras
- Embedded Panorama feature for digital cameras with panoramic functionality
- Rigid memory card construction for exceptional durability
- For most xD-Picture Card compatible Digital Cameras
I recently bought an Olympus E 510 twin-lens kit and it came with a fairly slow 2 GB CF card. So I bought this… It works noticeably more quickly than the CF card and the panorama function is fantastic! Just plug the camera into PC via USB, and everything happens on its own with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. The card-reading thing is a bit annoying (my lap-top recognises and reads it, but my desk-top does not), but that is easily overcome with the USB transfer. The card does what it says and – so long as your camera is compatible – then you need have no worries. The panorama function is far more than the gimmick I thought it would be and does produce astonishing results with little or no fiddling.
Rating: 4 / 5
Just received a second XD card, excellent product and worth having for the panoramic function with Olympus Cameras. A note on the postage, it may be £4.99 but even with that it’s a bargain – less than £14 all in for something in the camera shops that retails for nearly £50
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this xD-picture card with an Olympus Mju 820 Digital Compact Camera and I cannot fault it. I think previous reviewers’ limitations must be more to do with the camera than this xD-picture card. With the Olympus Mju 820, I can store 999 pictures (or so it says, as I have never taken that many before downloading onto my PC) and well over an hour and a half of video. I have not tested this to its full extent, but, I can confirm that I have taken 5 minutes of continuous video with this camera, with the data being stored on this xD-Picture card.
As a test of my theory, try recording a video on the camera without any additional memory inserted, i.e. on the built in memory. Even if the built-in memory is just 32Mb, it should be able to video a 1-2 minutes. But if it stops videoing after, say, 40 seconds, then it is probably a camera limitation and not the memory card – I tried this on an old digital Olympus camera which was restricted to just 20 seconds, no matter if additional memory was inserted or not.
Rating: 4 / 5
Using this on a Fuji S5000 at the moment. Permits a phenomenal number of shots at highest resolution (1000+)
Only problem is with downloading. my 8 in 1 card reader will not recognise that there is data on the card and wants to format the card in some odd way ! Have had to use USB from camera- which works ok.
Rating: 4 / 5
If you have little knowledge of digital cameras, do not follow Amazons “what people also purchased” line, I followed this and ended up buying a memory card that wasn’t suitable for the camera, waste of 12 quid.
Products ok but havn’t got anything to judge it against
Rating: 5 / 5