Olympus 2GB Type M XD Card with panorama function - Electronics / Photography (Olympus Optical Co. (UK) Ltd)

The xD-Picture Card is the smallest, lightest flash memory card available today, yet it offers the fast read/write speed and high capacity that today's newest products require.

Designed for use with your xD Picture Card compatible digital cameras, it's compact for smaller and more stylish digital devices. It?s powerful for amazing memory capacity now, and increased memory capacity in the future. It?s durable, making it a media you can trust with your most valuable data. And it?s versatile, for unprecedented device flexibility.

Customer Reviews of Olympus 2GB Type M XD Card with panorama function

alexandruboboc
UK
30th September 2008

Good card but buy it only if you need it
I bought the card for my Olympus E-510 to be able to shot panorama shots.
It is much slower that the CF Sandisk extreme III so I am really thinking that did not worth the money.
Otherwise the card is ok, the price is fair.
My advice is, if you have a camera with CD+xD do not bother to buy the xD card.

G. Horsham
UK
9th September 2008

Bags of storage
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.

F. Carter
Somerset, UK
4th September 2008

Good value
Good value. It may take around a week to be delivered, so it is worth ordering in advance, a great saving. Worth stocking up on for holidays, especially if you are using your digital camera for filming.

T. Williams
E Anglia
25th August 2008

VIDEO FUNCTION
WITH FUJI xD M PICTURE CARDS I FOUND THAT THE VIDEO CLIPS ARE LIMITED TO 40 SECS AT A TIME IN MY OLYMPUS 570 UZ CAMERA; WHEREAS WITH THE OLYMPUS xD M+ PICURE CARD THE LIMIT IS HOW MUCH SPARE CAPACITY THERE IS LEFT ON THE CARD. ALSO PANAROMIC FUNCTION OF THE Olympus 2GB Type M XD Card with panorama function AVOIDS NEED TO MESS AROUND ON PC.

Anonymous
UK
17th July 2008

Don't be fooled...
Don't be fooled by the marketing, the special arty extra's and panorama features Olympus promotes are not worth having - you get a handful of tacky frames and messages to add to your photos e.g. Congratulations / Happy Birthday etc. Get any card so long as its fast and add effects or stitch photos together for panoramic shots on your PC.