Fujifilm 64MB xD Picture Card

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Powerfully Simple: Introducing The Incredible Olympus PEN E-PL1 Camera". Olympus America. February 3, 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06 . Retrieved 2011-07-05. Valhalla, NY, August 8, 2006 - Digital photographers of all levels—amateur and professional alike—will be pleased to learn of the availability of a new 2GB xD-Picture Card from Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc. Olympus began to move away from the xD format with the mid-2009 [3] announcement of the E-P1 camera, which supported only Secure Digital memory cards. [4] As of Spring 2010, all new Olympus cameras announced at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show and Photo Marketing Association International Trade Show can use SD cards. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] This changeover to the SD card format has never been officially announced by Olympus Corporation. The higher-end DSLR cameras such as the E-3 and E-5 among others continue to use CompactFlash cards as well. Certain final Olympus cameras using xD cards are also supporting microSD cards with a special, included adapter. This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( July 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) xD cards were manufactured with capacities of 16 MB [a] up to 2 GB. [b] [1] The standard was phased out in the late 2000s in favour of the SD card, which had been its primary competitor. [2] History [ edit ]

The xD-Picture Card is an obsolete form of flash memory card, used in digital cameras made by Olympus, Fujifilm, and Kodak during the 2000s. The xD in the xD-Picture Card stands for eXtreme Digital. Memory cards past, present and future - What you need to know about the different card formats". 7 December 2017.Photographers no longer have to worry about whether their hiking trip, family vacation, or wedding will be captured in its entirety," explained Jim Avato, Marketing Manager, Electronic Imaging Products Division, Fuji Photo Film, U.S.A, Inc. "The 2GB xD-Picture Card can store 1,640 5-MegaPixel photos, giving photographers the freedom to snap away without worrying about dwindling storage capacity. Movie capture can be as long as 58 minutes at 320 x 240 resolution." This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Faster xD Picture Cards launched: Digital Photography Review". Dpreview.com. 2008-01-23 . Retrieved 2011-07-05.

Olympus says that its xD cards support special "picture effects" when used in some Olympus cameras, though these software features are not intrinsically hardware-dependent. Type H and M+ cards however, are required in newer models to capture video at high rate (640×480 @ 30fps). Due to changes in the cards' storage architecture, newer Type M and H cards may have compatibility issues with some older cameras (especially video recording). Compatibility lists are available for Olympus: Olympus America's [17] and Fujifilm's. [18] Newer cards are incompatible with some card readers. The New Olympus FE Series Just May Be The World's Smartest Entry-Level Cameras". Olympusamerica.com. 2010-01-07 . Retrieved 2011-07-05. Olympus Panorama Header". Robert Haus. 2007-12-09. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009 . Retrieved 2011-07-05. Restore the panorama feature on Olympus smartmedia, with a hex editor, a Zio USB smartmedia reader, the smprep.exe program that is installed with it, and Windows 98/ME/2000.

The memory format used is not well documented. It is difficult to study it directly, since most camera devices and most USB card readers do not provide direct access to the flash memory. Since the cards are controller-less, cameras and card readers must perform wear leveling and error detection. They normally hide the portion of the memory which stores this information (among other things) from higher level access. [20] The increasing pixel counts of digital still cameras and the growing use of these cameras for advanced audio and video recording are driving the demand for higher capacity storage," said John D. Blakeslee, business manager, digital memory products, Olympus Imaging America. "Olympus plans to apply this high-capacity technology to develop the xD-Picture Card for Olympus digital cameras with memory capacities eventually reaching up to 8GB." The original xD cards (Type S) were available in 16MB to 512MB capacities. The Type M card, released in February 2005, [13] uses multi-level cell (MLC) architecture to achieve a theoretical storage capacity of up to 8GB. As of June2010 [update], Type M cards are available in sizes from 256MB to 2GB. However, the Type M suffers from slower read/write speeds than the original cards.Olympus America Inc. - CCS Department. "Archived Products > E-P1". Olympusamerica.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2010 . Retrieved 2011-07-05. Memory: SD Memory Card(SDHC compatible) [xD cards are not included in entry]