I’m so used to SD, microSD and CFexpress cards as gold standard removable media for my digital camera of choice – not to mention wireless transfer – that it’s easy to forget about all the failed ...

My parents have a nice 4MP digital camera (Olympus C-4000). Unfortunately, it uses SmartMedia Flash memory and as most of you know, this type is pretty much a dead end. I think 128MB might work, but I ...

Memory developers Lexar Media and SanDisk have agreed to sell the emerging xD-Picture Card, a removable flash memory card format that's gaining traction by riding on the popularity of digital cameras.

Question: We have an Olympus camera that uses an xD memory card. We hooked up the camera to our TV by cable to view pictures of a trip to Washington. It worked great until something happened that ...

Since the controller is not built into the card, how large an XD card you can use is governed by the circuity in your device. My Olympus C-5050Z, as an example, will not work with a 1gb XD card ...

Worst case buffer clearing time. — This is the delay after a set of shots before you can remove the card. Some cameras won’t shut down until the buffer is cleared. (*See note about memory card speeds ...