Some day, my prints will come! (Fujifilm 64 MB xD-Picture Card)

Member Name: firemanspam

Product:	Fujifilm 64 MB xD-Picture Card
Date:	01/08/08 (68 review reads)
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Advantages: Small, but with large capacty.

Disadvantages: Easy to lose.

64mb xD memory cards by Fujifilm are the best of a good idea. The price is very good at £3.49 from Amazon, plus P&P of course. This is the cheapest I have seen them, you can buy them anywhere but at a higher price. They are often described as the "Postage stamp" size cards, they actually measure an inch by three quarters, or if you are metric 19 x 24mm.
If you look on various sites, you will find a lot cheaper, but I would suggest that at this price, you can not go wrong, and you will have the genuine item.

There are two types of these cards, M and H type. They each have a different method of digitally encoding, but that need not concern us, as they are completely interchangable and compatable.
For those who understand these things, the transfer rate is 5mb per second. They came ready to use, you don't need to format them first.

The cards were jointly developed by Fujifilm and Olympus. They are coloured black, it is a shame they are not some colour like hi-vis yellow, because if you drop one of these outdoors, you may never find it. They do come in a protective case, which is easy enough to keep in the same case as your camera, my tip here is to make the case easy to spot, although the time you are most likely to lose one, is when you are actually changing it.
You will probably want to keep several of these with you, instead of just the one, that way when the card is full, you simply change cards and start snapping away again or hours.
I have never had cause to complain about these cards, in my opinion these are one of the better makes. Most cameras come with a small 16mb card just to start you off, but you will soon want to upgrade to a couple of bigger ones I feel sure.

You then either download your images to your PC, or take the card into your local Max Spielman's and get them printed while you wait. You can of course send the cards through the post, to someone without a PC so they can choose which images they want. This review has been adapted from one that was published before

The company does have a website with some nice graphics, and also some useful information.:-
www.fujifilm.co.uk

Summary: Very good make.

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