With an adapter, the xD card will fit into the cf slot. Newer cameras will
have sm and xD slots. You will not be able to use Compact flash afaik.
On 7/31/02 John Hermanson wrote:
Olympus is coming out with their own digital storage media. With a small
adapter, the media is used in the compact flash slot. It is called "Olympus
xD-Picture Card." Sizes range from 8 meg to 256 meg. Thought someone might
like to know.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <OM4Ti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:54 PM
Subject: New Memory Card :was Re: [OM] taken from the Maitani site....
> The new memory card you are referring to is the XD.
>
> The C-730UZ, C-5050 and C-50 all take this card. I do not know how it is
> implemented on the other two but in the 730 it slips into a little notch
in
> the Smart Media slot. This solves the problem of SM cards only going to
128
> meg.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Lawrence" <mlawrence@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 6:41 PM
> Subject: RE: [OM] taken from the Maitani site....
>
>
> > > Albert [mailto:olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> > > This makes me sad. Another one of my complaints about the Olympus
> > > digital line is the use of smart media. CF will take a microdrive,
> > > which means 1gig options vs. only a 128Meg limit. That's a huge
> > > difference. What is stopping me from recommending Olympus C series
> > > cameras to people is that. Higher prices for memory and less
> > > of it in an easier to break, less compatible package.
> >
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