Dig. Camera

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:21:56AM -0500, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> The only two cameras that use the xD are Olympia and Fuji so if you buy
> into xD you'll find you cannot use your cards anywhere else. They are
> different than SD cards and are not interchangeable.
> 
> My Fuji camera was a present but I might have chosen to go with an
> SD-based camera given comparable specs. Even so I haven't had much
> problems in finding xD media and it really means that I have to
> repurchase when moving to a larger camera. I'll probably have to do that
> anyway since the jump in megapixels will require a boost in memory.
> 
> I seem to recall that xD was designed to store additional data about the
> images like the model of camera and settings at the time. This doesn't
> make sense to me since it must use a FAT file system and obviously uses
> JPEGs.

All cameras store that in the EXIF tag area of the jpeg.  It has nothing
to do with the memory cards.  Fuji and olympus just wanted cards that
only worked with their cameras (just like sony's memory sticks although
at least those are used in more than just cameras).

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