Olympus xD-Picture Card

Olympus xD-Picture Card (Type M and Type M+)

Olympus xD (Extreme Digital) Picture Card is the ultimate reusable, removable digital media. Besides providing increased storage capacities at higher resolutions, it also offers compatibility with most manufacturers’ xD-compatible devices and is the only xD-Picture Card to support the Panorama function found with today’s Olympus digital cameras.

The Type M and Type M+ xD-Picture Card keeps your photo, movie and other files safe and sound so you can enjoy them any way you want (viewing, sharing, slideshows, etc.) and any time. The compact size lets you carry it anywhere and because it’s compatible with many reader/writers, you can download data to a computer or another device in a jiffy.

The Type M+ xD-Picture card is compatible with all cameras and is 1.5 times faster than the Type M card. The increase in speed may be useful in sequential shooting of digital stills and in the recording of high-density video with Olympus cameras.

When it comes to your pictures, quality and reliability can’t be compromised. That’s why the xD-Picture Card is the finest compact, durable removable media your camera will ever know

The xD-Picture Card is a flash memory card format developed and introduced to the market in July 2002 by Olympus and Fujifilm, and manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation. xD cards are in Olympus and Fujifilm digital cameras, and are available in a range of sizes, from 16 MB to 1 GB currently. A higher-performance xD card known as Type M came out in 2005, and uses Multi Level Cell (MLC) architecture. The 1GB Type M card is called the M1GB (M-XD1GM). Type M cards will eventually be available in sizes up to 8 GB, though the cards are not compatible with all older model cameras.


xD cards are available from a wide variety of manufacturers, they are not the most expensive format, and they also offers many advantages.As of June 2005, the maximum size of released xD cards compares favourably to the various other flash card standards. xD cards are available in sizes up to one gigabyte. Other smaller formats Flash Cards which match xD's size more closely have lower or the same capacity.

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