Reading XD cards from camera; how?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 21 21:29:04 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:05:55AM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> I recently bought a very low-end Olympus digital camera.  It came with
> an xD card shell that takes micro-SD cards.  So even Olympus has given
> up on the xD format.  If the camera really takes xD (which does seem
> unlikely, it being a Pentax) you would be wise to get a similar card
> converter so you can use the much more common micro-SDHC format cards.
>  The converters are actually hard to find - they come with cameras but
> aren't readily available for sale.  But keep your eyes open.

Of course fuji and olypus couldn't even agree on the xD format and hence
used incompatible cards.  No wonder that format is essentially dead.

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