Product Description

Fujifilm's new xD-Picture Card is the ultimate solution for the exciting new generation of compact digital cameras. xD-Picture Card is the smallest, lightest flash memory card available today, yet it offers the fast read/write speed and high capacity that today's newest products require.

Product Details

• Brand: Fuji
• Model: 600002303
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0 pounds

Features

• High-capacity flash memory format for digital cameras
• 128 MB storage capacity
• 3 MB/sec record speed, 5MB/sec read speed
• Ultracompact--.10 ounce weight in the size of a penny
• Designed to consume minimal power

Amazon.com Product Description
Early Adopters Pick: August 2002. The smallest and most lightweight flash card available with fast read/write speeds paired with high-capacity storage; compatible with new lines of Fuji and Olympus digital cameras.

Designed to minimize power consumption, Fuji's xD-Picture Card offers fast read and write capabilities for smoother digital camera operation. Extremely compact, it is about the size of a penny and weighs less than one-tenth of an ounce. The 128 MB capacity card can record data at 3 MBps and offers a read speed of 5 MBps.

Customer Reviews

Right to the Bottom Line
It's a memory card. If this is the format your camera (or other device) uses, it works. If it's not the right format, no need to read any further.

Is this the right size for you? At the 3.2 megapixel "fine" setting, my camera will store about 100 pictures, depending on how complex your pictures are.

On a more practical level, if you're not planning on turning your photos into 8x10 prints, and you use a lower resolution, you can pack a heck of a lot of pictures on one card.

At the time of this writing, 256MB cards are still on the drawing board, and many devices that use XD memory may need firmware upgrades to use them if (when) they do make it to market. Smaller cards are not usually proportionally smaller priced, so IMHO, if you have a device that uses XD memory, this is the right card for you.

Great Product and Memory
I Highly recommend the XD digital cameras and XD memory cards. I purchased a Fujifilm S5000 digital camera which came with a standard Fujifilm 16mb card. I upgraded to this Fujifilm 128mb XD card and have had no regrets or problems. A good deal for a price of around $50 to $65 dollars. You can double the memory, 256mb, for around $110 dollars. I found the Olympus 128mb XD card is cheaper in price than the Fuji, but when I researched them both, the Olympus card when you touch the connectors (example: removing from camera) the memory, in some incidents, have been erased. This was a risk I was not going to chance for $2 to $6 dollars less in price. In the 6M quality mode ( 2816 x 2120 pixels ) I can get approx 90 photo's and 165 photo's in the 3M quality mode ( 2048 x 1536 pixels ).

The XD high speed can greatly enhance the user's experience with the product. A photographer can take & store new pictures or view existing images on the LCD screen more quickly with the XD Picture Card than with other, slower media formats. This means less battery drainage!

The Con's - *Small: could easily be misplaced or lost. *Price: the XD card is a little bit more expensive than other memory cards, but you get what you pay for!

Format is not an issue
I recently bought a Fuji camera that uses xD-Picture memory cards. Here are important things that I consider:
- Fast: Writing fast and erasing fast saves battery and you time.
- Small: If you decide to buy more than one memory card, then you will have less trouble keeping all of them in you camera's pouch. Also, they are less likely to break appart.
- Looking ahead: this format is going to be here when 4Gb cards start to become available. Other current formats do not support this size (Look how Sony broke compatibiity with it's new hideous MemoryStick-2)
- Life time of the format: Let's be realistic, chances are that you are going to buy another digital camera anyway in the next 2 years - to get grater megapixel capabilities or because your new computer does not have USB ports anymore. I am pretty confident that this format will be around for quite a while.

But, I would recomend this format to people that do not have any photo printer that reads from the other memory cards formats. If you have a printer that takes CompactFlash cards, buy a camera that uses it.
If you don't have such a printer or do not plan on buying one, then you do not have any reason to avoid this format. Besides, you can print from xD-picture cards at[local store] - cheaper than at home.
Price differences are not significant anymore, expect prices to drop even more when 256MB and 512MB xD cards become available.