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Summary: Don't even think of not getting one of these!
Review: Besides being a super-fast media format for your digital cameras, it is a convenient size for vacations and travelling.
Why fill up small cards & miss a shot, or have to carry around a pocket full of smaller capacity cards? Plus, the price per meg beats getting a bunch of the smaller cards.
Do take care, though, in handling, as the card is delicate & only about the size of a postage stamp.
I use this for my Fuji S5000 and haven't had to worry about missing a photo op.
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Summary: Don't even think of not getting one of these!
Review: Besides being a super-fast media format for your digital cameras, it is a convenient size for vacations and travelling.
Why fill up small cards & miss a shot, or have to carry around a pocket full of smaller capacity cards? Plus, the price per meg beats getting a bunch of the smaller cards.
Do take care, though, in handling, as the card is delicate & only about the size of a postage stamp.
I use this for my Fuji S5000 and haven't had to worry about missing a photo op.
Rating:
Summary: Don't even think of not getting one of these!
Review: Besides being a super-fast media format for your digital cameras, it is a convenient size for vacations and travelling.
Why fill up small cards & miss a shot, or have to carry around a pocket full of smaller capacity cards? Plus, the price per meg beats getting a bunch of the smaller cards.
Do take care, though, in handling, as the card is delicate & only about the size of a postage stamp.
I use this for my Fuji S5000 and haven't had to worry about missing a photo op.
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Summary: cf cards are all around better value
Review: Check web resources. You will find that in all published timing
tests writes to xD cards are slower than writes to the best CF
cards despite xD cards costing 60% more. So forget about buying
xD cards because they are faster; they aren't.
I could find no independent verification that xD cards decrease
battery drain in a digital camera. Even if I were willing to
believe the claim, it is still far cheaper to purchase two or
three extra sets of rechargeable batteries and carry them with
me.
There is no good reason to buy an xD card.
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Summary: Has Performed Great Without Incident!
Review: I have this in my Fujifilm Finepix E550 and all is well with it. Absolutely no issues with its performance or stability. I have downloaded pics from it many dozens of times using my SanDisk 8-in-1 Media Card Reader without anything ever going wrong. Five stars means all is well this card. It's just a little pricey still (in my opinion).
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Summary: The Size To Get!
Review: I own three Fuji cameras, an S602Z, S5000 and S7000. I've already reviewed the xD 128MB card here, shooting down the CF crowd who trashed Fuji's xD format as 'non standard'.. hey, does it make sense to cling to an obsolete 'standard'? xD has every advantage over CF.. far lower power consumption (for your CF card snobs, that means that your batteries drain a lot faster than mine), is smaller than a postage stamp, writes blazing fast.. a couple, three seconds for a RAW file, even TIFFs write faster than on my old San Disk 256MB CF cards that I had used in a Nikon 990 and in my s602z... I use the xD in the s602z with a CF adapter, it's faster. ... and now Fuji projects size increases up to 8 GIGABYTES.. on the xD card. Can you say 'TIME TO LOSE THE MICRODRIVE!' 1GB xD card is coming out real soon. This is a better technology than the old CF cards, and since there are no mechanical parts, there's no reason to use a Microdrive.. I mention this because the Fujis have a CF II slot for a Microdrive. What's a Microdrive.. a HARD DRIVE. What happens to all hard drives.. they're mortal. They die. Something to consider, when you can acheive the same storage easily with a couple (soon, ONE) xD cards. In actual use, I just leave my 512 xD in the camera when I transfer photos, this way I never touch it. The price is right, the technology superior. There's also at least one USB xD Flash memory device.. I bought one, and now use an xD card to carry files around from my PC. You can swap the xD cards in and out of the USB flash stick, very nice, so now I can boot Linux off of an xD card that's smaller than a postage stamp. Wow, think of the possibilities.
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Summary: My pick of media
Review: I use a number of different cameras over the course of a week and have 4 different (5 counting Microdrive) card types (MS, SD, CF and xD) to deal with and without a doubt the best of the formats is the xD media. xD cards are certainly faster (From writing to the same computer through a card reader) and my seems to drain batteries less (Though this could be camera specific and without wiring up a test circuit I could verify it is the card tat is draining less).
If you camera gives you the choice of using xD or another format go for the xD card, If you are deciding between two cameras of equal quality (and more importantly you like) and one uses xD and the other uses another format... go for the xD camera.
xD advantages
Less Battery Drain
Faster Write Times
Small size and low weight (Though as it stays in the camera most of the time this is a non issue)
xD Disadvantages
They cost about a 1/3 more than most other formats
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Summary: Fast and Tiny
Review: I use it for my 8 MP digital camera, and I'm pleased with how quickly it receives image data. Its miniscule size is both an advantage & disadvantage: so small it's easy to lose, but it's equivalent to 4 rolls of 36 exposure 35mm film.
Rating:
Summary: Fast and Tiny
Review: I use it for my 8 MP digital camera, and I'm pleased with how quickly it receives image data. Its miniscule size is both an advantage & disadvantage: so small it's easy to lose, but it's equivalent to 4 rolls of 36 exposure 35mm film.
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Summary: SO many pictures
Review: In my Fuji F700 camera this card will hold 343 6mp images, and almost twice that at 3.2mp. Can't wait to take my camera on vacation this summer. The nice thing about such a large card is you absolutely never feel like taking a picture would be a waste of space. It'll also hold (not at the same time obviously) about 7-1/2 minutes of 640x480 video with sound.Transfer rates are blisteringly fast, too. And since the F700 comes with a docking station, I doubt I'll ever have to take the card out.
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