Olympus & Fujifilm announce the xD-Picture card

The Olympus & Fujifilm xD-Picture card

Olympus & Fujifilm announce the xD-Picture card - Digital cameras, digital camera reviews, photography views and news news

Click here for the press release on the new xD-Picture cardJuly 30, 2002
Olympus and FujiFilm announce the availability of a new storage card, the x3 xD-Picture Card, in the autumn 2002.  
The main characteristics of the card:
- Dimensions: 20 x 25 x 1.7mm
- Weight: only  2 gram
- Capacity: 16, 32, 64, 128MB initially
- 256, 512MB in Dec02 (max: 8GB !)  
To ensure that the new card can be used widely from the start a number of accessories is announced at the same time: a PC Card adapter, a Compact Flash Card adapter and a USB card reader for SM and XD cards.