Here's a link to a thread I started in New England. I bought a new 2GB memory card for my camera (which is 4-years old) It is a "Type M" XD picture card. For some reason it's not working with my camera. I think it's because of the type, it is high speed.

Anyway, here's the link (with a bit more detail in that thread) and what folks have suggested so far:
Picture card

If you can add any suggestions, here or there, I'd appreciate it.

 

Laliney -

According to Wikipedia, there are compatability issues with many older Olympus cameras and the M+ card.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XD-Picture_Card

The article says that Olympus has a list of cameras that may have difficulties with the new M+ card somewhere on their site.

Hope this helps!

 

Thanks, Roy.

Going to look at that site right now.

 

That answered the question, Roy. I found my model and the best I can get is a 512 MB, off to buy one now. Cheap money these days!

 

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At least the 'older' cards are available at bargain prices.... and you can probably get a couple hundred photos on that 512 card (lot more than on an old roll of film )

I had the same problem with an 'hi-capacity' SD card. It worked in my camera.... but my external card reader refused to recognize it. Pain in the neck because I never download directly from the camera... and I really didn't want to buy a new card reader just for that one card.

I also found that the newer 'hi-memory' SD and XD cards are much slower to read than the 1st generation cards. I've got a couple of the 8 gig and 16 gig cards for the SLR, but almost never use them because of the slow read speed (20-30 minutes through a USB2 port for a full 8 gig card!). The point-'n-shoot cameras take a huge number of images with a 512mb card (even the ones that are 6 or 8 megapixel), and the cards are small (and cheap) enough that it isn't a problem to carry a couple of spares.

Looking forward to the Nor'easter!

 

I got two of them on line for $8.00 each. Not so easy to come by though. Several places had no stock.

I just set my camera for the best of the best in resolution, so I'm anxious to see how many pics I can get on the card.

Thanks again.

 

[QUOTE=Lainey8484,Jul 20 2008, 06:12 PM] I got two of them on line for $8.00 each.