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Summary: 128Mb card for C-3040ZOOM
Review: 128 Mb card works fine with the C-3040ZOOM, although not available from Olympus (yet).
Somewhat expensive but avoids the hassle of switching cards...
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Summary: Reliable And Worth The Extra Money
Review: As others have noted, Olympus Smart Media Cards are needed for some of the Olympus camera functions, so the card is worth it for that.I have had other cards "go bad", but none from Olympus. To me that is worth the few extra dollars, and the price has come down a bit since I bought my last one.
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Summary: USB card reader with Smartmedia
Review: Beware when you use USB card reader to read and write to your smartmedia. I used one to load the images from my camera. I made a mistake by erasing the files by the card reader. Now my smartmedia card no longer works on the camera although the card still works fine as a removable drive on the card reader. The camera would not reformat the card and shows card error. There is no warning anywhere in the user's manual. What a waste of money considering the price of the card.
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Summary: Olympus Brand not required
Review: Don't be fooled by the statement "only use Olympus brand media." I bought Simple Tech SmartMedia 128mb and it works great. I also paid less then half for the 128mb media...
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Summary: C-3030Z Compatability with 128MB Smartmedia
Review: FYI: I was concerned that this 128MB Smartmedia card would not be supported with my camera Olympus C-3030Z. I called Olympus technical support at 1-888-553-4448 and George on 6/8/01 assured me that ALL Olympus digital cameras that take a 64MB Smartmedia card will also take a 128MB card. Technical support assured me that there are NO compatibility issues. The Olympus web site only lists compatability for cards up to 64MB, but the 128MB card is new and is fully supported while the chart is being updated. Olympus stuff is great!
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Summary: replacing after format lost
Review: I am replacing a 128MB card after one of two I owned lost its format. I had the card in an Olympus P440 photo printer (using a PCMCIA adapter). While printing, I lost power to the printer. When I powered everything up again, some of the image data was lost and errors were diaplyed on the printer. When I reinserted the card into my Olympus 3040 camera, it diplayed a card error and refused to reformat with the tool icon. So I threw the card away. This is the only problem I have had in 2+ years, but it seems like a serious design flaw for a card that should have only been open for a read function.
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Summary: replacing after format lost
Review: I am replacing a 128MB card after one of two I owned lost its format. I had the card in an Olympus P440 photo printer (using a PCMCIA adapter). While printing, I lost power to the printer. When I powered everything up again, some of the image data was lost and errors were diaplyed on the printer. When I reinserted the card into my Olympus 3040 camera, it diplayed a card error and refused to reformat with the tool icon. So I threw the card away. This is the only problem I have had in 2+ years, but it seems like a serious design flaw for a card that should have only been open for a read function.
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Summary: Why purchase Olympus SmartMedia, Buy Viking instead and save
Review: I bought the Viking 128MB card, and took advantage of the reduced price and coupon being offered until 06/30/01. Works Great on my D490Z..
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Summary: some problems
Review: I bought two of these cards a little less than a year ago
and they worked great until recently. I had 160 images on
one card and when I tried to upload them to my Dell (which
I have done with success many times) I got
"Disk is not formatted." I tried uploading to an IBM PC
and got the same message. When I put the card into an HP
printer (that I have had success with in the past) I got
"Error on card." I was pretty depressed by this since the
images were taken over several weeks for a documentation
project. As a last effort, I tried uploading the images to
an HP computer, and that worked fine - so they were saved.
I tossed the defective card. I had in no way mistreated it.
This experience has taught me to upload my pictures more
frequently - you could lose a lot of valuable images.
Rating:
Summary: some problems
Review: I bought two of these cards a little less than a year ago
and they worked great until recently. I had 160 images on
one card and when I tried to upload them to my Dell (which
I have done with success many times) I got
"Disk is not formatted." I tried uploading to an IBM PC
and got the same message. When I put the card into an HP
printer (that I have had success with in the past) I got
"Error on card." I was pretty depressed by this since the
images were taken over several weeks for a documentation
project. As a last effort, I tried uploading the images to
an HP computer, and that worked fine - so they were saved.
I tossed the defective card. I had in no way mistreated it.
This experience has taught me to upload my pictures more
frequently - you could lose a lot of valuable images.
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