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Summary: Smartmedia Card Error
Review: I had also card error, with a 16 and a 128M cards, and solve this problem, only by reformating the card using the SMFORMAT.EXE file found at this address:
http://www.marshost.com/~rashmun/
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Summary: Worth the Extra Cost
Review: I have an Olympus C-3000, and bought a 64MB Olympus card to go with it. Used it for a long time, never had a problem. When I wanted more memory, I bought a SanDisk 128MB card to save a few dollars. That thing has flaked out on me many times, and I've lost important photographs. Take the photos, and get home only to find that they are not there.I'm going back to Olympus cards. Memory is not all created equally. (BTW, I also had a SanDisk USB memory card reader. That was a piece of junk too - the memory card got stuck and wouldn't come out! Their tech support said "Push down real hard on the card with the reader upside down and it will come out" - I kid you not! Stay away from anything those pinheads manufacture.)
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Summary: be careful how you use it
Review: I love my Olympus digital cameras (I now have two), and I enjoy having lots of room on the card and not having to think whether or not I've got the right card to do panorama shots. However, I use an external PCMCIA card reader to copy the picture files to my computer, and I recently made the mistake of copying some files from the computer back onto the smartmedia card. After that the camera would not recognize the card, and Olympus is unwilling to offer assistance. They say my card just got corrupted and I need to buy a new one.
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Summary: The Biggest Little Card
Review: I own an Olympus C-2040 Zoom digital camera which comes with a 8MB SmartMedia card. When first turned on, it comes up in HQ mode (1600 x 1200 standard JPEG) and the number of photos that can be stored is 13. This equates to about one-half roll of film.
I plugged in the 128MB SmartMedia card and it shows that it will store 257 images in HQ mode. This equates to more than 10 rolls of 24 exposure film. Ten rolls of film... that's about what I shoot on a normal vacation. Plus, by using the Olympus SmartMedia card the panorama mode is always available.
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Summary: works perfectly
Review: I received my Olympus C3000Z as a gift and since I was new to digital cameras and media cards, I felt comfortable starting out with an Olympus card. I wanted to be able to take lots of photos at large resolutions, and the price was right. I shoot pictures almost every day now with my digicam, and this card has never let me down. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: I think the Olympus Smart Media Card is.
Review: If you are going to get a memory card, why get less than the most available, especially now that you can get 128MB for about [money amount] Soon more memory is sure to become available, but at this point I believe 128MB is the most you can find in "Smart Media Card" from Olympus, or even a generic card for that matter. This will give you almost one picture per MB, meaning that with the 128MB Smart Media Card you get well over a hundred High Quality (HQ) pictures. HQ gives you a very nice 5x7" photo at 300dpi. You can significantly reduce the about of memory used by the card if you decrease the size of each picture taken. For small pictures used to attach to emails you could conceivably get well over a 1000 pictures on the card by going from just over 3.9 mega pixels (HQ) down to just over 0.3 mega pixels (Normal mode on the camera) similar to the resolution of the first VGA monitors, reducing the memory usage by more than 1/10th. As far as buying the Olympus Card, I would recommend it, particularly if you are considering using the "panoramic" feature that "stitches" multiple scenes together to make a panorama using the software that comes with the Olympus digital camera. I understand that this feature is only available on the Olympus Smart Media Cards and now you can find Olympus cards at a comparable price to the "generic" brands. I have had no problems using the Smart Media Card from Olympus. I would recommend it highly. The only con that I can see won't come until they come out with a card with more memory. Tangent to the 128MB Olympus Smart Media Card is their Card Reader. I opted out of that option, because the only benefit of it seemed to be the convenience of not having to plug your camera into a USB port. This in my mind is off-set by the inconvenience and exposure to damage of removing the card itself to put it into the reader, sounds like an excuse to sell "every available gadget" to me. So why not download directly from the camera? The only other argument in favor of the card reader is that it saves camera batteries, and although I'm getting slightly off subject here, it goes almost without saying that if you are using NiMH 1700 - 2000 mAh rechargeable batteries, which I think you will find is the best bet in the long run, leaving your camera on a few more seconds is immaterial.
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Summary: I think the Olympus Smart Media Card is.
Review: If you are going to get a memory card, why get less than the most available, especially now that you can get 128MB for about [money amount] Soon more memory is sure to become available, but at this point I believe 128MB is the most you can find in "Smart Media Card" from Olympus, or even a generic card for that matter. This will give you almost one picture per MB, meaning that with the 128MB Smart Media Card you get well over a hundred High Quality (HQ) pictures. HQ gives you a very nice 5x7" photo at 300dpi. You can significantly reduce the about of memory used by the card if you decrease the size of each picture taken. For small pictures used to attach to emails you could conceivably get well over a 1000 pictures on the card by going from just over 3.9 mega pixels (HQ) down to just over 0.3 mega pixels (Normal mode on the camera) similar to the resolution of the first VGA monitors, reducing the memory usage by more than 1/10th. As far as buying the Olympus Card, I would recommend it, particularly if you are considering using the "panoramic" feature that "stitches" multiple scenes together to make a panorama using the software that comes with the Olympus digital camera. I understand that this feature is only available on the Olympus Smart Media Cards and now you can find Olympus cards at a comparable price to the "generic" brands. I have had no problems using the Smart Media Card from Olympus. I would recommend it highly. The only con that I can see won't come until they come out with a card with more memory. Tangent to the 128MB Olympus Smart Media Card is their Card Reader. I opted out of that option, because the only benefit of it seemed to be the convenience of not having to plug your camera into a USB port. This in my mind is off-set by the inconvenience and exposure to damage of removing the card itself to put it into the reader, sounds like an excuse to sell "every available gadget" to me. So why not download directly from the camera? The only other argument in favor of the card reader is that it saves camera batteries, and although I'm getting slightly off subject here, it goes almost without saying that if you are using NiMH 1700 - 2000 mAh rechargeable batteries, which I think you will find is the best bet in the long run, leaving your camera on a few more seconds is immaterial.
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Summary: Brand name memory
Review: Nice to have 128Meg and avoid running out of room for pixs. Of course the marketing by Olympus requires you to buy Olympus memory in order to use ALL of the features of the Olympus camera. I do not like this tactic and probably would not have bought the camera if I knew about this scheme in advance, my fault for not researching thoroughly Generic Smart media does not function in some camera modes such as Panorama mode.
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Summary: 128Mb SmartMedia by Toshiba - Olympus Pano
Review: Product arrive promptly, well packaged and as described. Just what I was looking for, I am very pleased and it was cheaper than E-Bay!
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Summary: Allows Olympus Panoramia to work on 3030/3040/4040 Cameras
Review: Since Amazon sells the 128 Olympus Smartmedia Card at such a good price. I think it is well worth the extra ten dollars to have all the features of the camera work, rather than use a generic card. The 128Card has such a good capacity that it might be the only one you will ever need for normal shots. For fine shots it is essential!
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