Olympus Memory cards - Type M 1GB XD Picture Card
August 8, 2008
For faster resolution digital capturing and high performance with larger memory capacity, XD Picture Card format comes in great help for most of the professional photographers. Olympus Memory card in XD format is specially designed to work with smaller and compact digital still cameras and video recorders. This satisfies the demand of greater memory capacity and exerts greater compatibility between various digital cameras. XD picture card is jointly developed by Olympus and Fujifilm.
Olympus is the pioneer in developing innovative digital equipments and related accessories. They have launched many highly sophisticated and very compact digital cameras in the market. The latest high-resolution digital camera developed by the other manufacturers even follows the XD Picture Card Standard developed by Olympus. The original Olympus XD Picture Card is available up to 2GB of memory capacity. It is an ultra compact and delivers fast data transferring speed suitable for modern digital cameras.
The Olympus Memory card belongs to type M of standard design that means it uses Multi Level Cell architecture to achieve maximum memory capacity of up to 8GB in the future. Olympus claims that their XD picture card can support its unique panoramic option in some Olympus digital camera, not only that but they can also activate 3D art effect functions. These extra functions are used along with software that is provided with some Olympus digital camera.
Olympus type M XD Picture Card is not compatible with some older cameras so before buying M type XD Picture Card check the compatibility list and choose which one will suits your digital camera.
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