Fujifilm 64MB xD Picture Card

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xD cards were manufactured with capacities of 16 MB [a] up to 2 GB. [b] [1] The standard was phased out in the late 2000s in favour of the SD card, which had been its primary competitor. [2] History [ edit ] Digital photographers are taking more photos and they are doing so with cameras of higher resolutions. Fujifilm has responded to this influx of high-resolution pictures by providing a media card that doubles the memory capacity of the current 1GB product. The new 2GB xD-Picture Card provides the storage space necessary to keep these photos until they are printed and shared. FE-Series: xD Compatibility Chart". Olympus America. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29 . Retrieved 2011-07-05. Introduction of OLYMPUS PEN E-P1 Micro Four Thirds interchangeable lens system camera". Olympus Corporation. 16 June 2009. Archived from the original on 16 April 2010. June 16, 2009 [..] Olympus [..] is pleased to announce the OLYMPUS PEN E-P1 Less widely supported by camera, card reader, and accessory manufacturers than other formats. As of January2010 [update], SD cards (and variants) are supported by all consumer-level digital cameras from major manufacturers.

Olympus began to move away from the xD format with the mid-2009 [3] announcement of the E-P1 camera, which supported only Secure Digital memory cards. [4] As of Spring 2010, all new Olympus cameras announced at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show and Photo Marketing Association International Trade Show can use SD cards. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] This changeover to the SD card format has never been officially announced by Olympus Corporation. The higher-end DSLR cameras such as the E-3 and E-5 among others continue to use CompactFlash cards as well. Certain final Olympus cameras using xD cards are also supporting microSD cards with a special, included adapter. Very similar to a standard NAND chip. Modified XD readers can be used to read arbitrary NAND chips. However, a few models of xD card readers based on the Alauda chip do allow direct access (bypassing the above mechanisms) to an xD card's flash memory. These readers have been reverse-engineered and Linux drivers have been produced by the Alauda Project, [21] which has documented the on-chip data structures of the xD card. [22] According to this information, xD card headers are similar to those used by SmartMedia, and include chip manufacturer information. Valhalla, NY, August 8, 2006 - Digital photographers of all levels—amateur and professional alike—will be pleased to learn of the availability of a new 2GB xD-Picture Card from Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc.Generally more expensive than other memory card types. As of September2009 [update], 2GB (2000MB) xD cards' retail prices are approximately three times those of same-capacity SD cards. Faster xD Picture Cards launched: Digital Photography Review". Dpreview.com. 2008-01-23 . Retrieved 2011-07-05. New Olympus Stylus Tough Cameras Dare To Go Where Other Point-And-Shoots Fear To Tread". Olympus America. February 2, 2010 . Retrieved 2011-07-05. Memory cards past, present and future - What you need to know about the different card formats". 7 December 2017.

a b "XD Media Specification". AlaudaProject. SourceForge. Archived from the original on 25 September 2010.Type M/M+ and Type H cards [ edit ] xD-Picture Card, 1000MB, type M xD-Picture Card, 512MB, type H A size comparison of an xD-Picture card with a MicroSD Card SanDisk Introduces One Gigabyte xD-Picture Card; New High-Megapixel Olympus and Fuji Cameras Spark Demand for High-Capacity xD-Picture Cards