One Thing I hated on the Fuji/Olympus cameras is their choice to go with their memory format, the xD card. IT SUCKS. it's over priced and the capacity is limited; I'm sure they save a few bucks by not having to pay sandisk to use SD or CF, but I think in the end it hurt their camera sales.
WELL looks like it's on it's way out. A few olympus cameras have now come with an adapter to let you use the microSD card in the camera. So in 1-2 years i think xD is going to be dead. thank goodness. I think Olympus sales will pick up after the RIP of xD. what a stupid format. really really stupid pricy format.


here's a link to the adapter from amazon.de:
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00170S7MK/hardwareguide


heres the info from Olympus who has smartened up:
http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/compati/microsd.cfm
Compatible microSD Card list

dated: 16/Apr.,2008
* The following microSD / microSDHC Cards can be used with the microSD Card Attachment MASD-1.

[ Caution ]
Compatible camera models with MASD-1 ( as of Apr, 2008 )
µ 1030SW / Stylus 1030SW
µ 1020 / Stylus 1020
µ 1010 / Stylus 1010
µ 850SW / Stylus 850SW
µ 840 / Stylus 840

The microSD / microSDHC Card can be used only with the cameras compatible with MASD-1.
The MASD-1 is different from the xD-Picture Card in form. Forcing it into an incompatible camera or any other equipment, it may damage camera or card or cause malfunction with the equipment. The images on the memory card may be destroyed.

The Panorama feature does not function with microSD / microSDHC Card.
To use the Panorama feature, use an Olympus xD-Picture Card.




[ microSD Card by TOSHIBA ]"X": Compatible "-": Incompatible
Model name Capacity still picture movie
SD-C256R4W 256MB X X
SD-C512R4W 512MB X X
SD-C01GR4W 1GB X X
SD-C02GR4W 2GB X X
SD-C04GR4W 4GB X X *1



[ microSD Card by SanDisk ]"X": Compatible "-": Incompatible
Model name Capacity still picture movie
SDSDQ-512 512MB X X
SDSDQ-1024 1GB X X
SDSDQ-2048 2GB X X
SDSDQ-4096 4GB X X *1
SDSDQ-6144 6GB X X *1
SDSDQ-8192 8GB X X *1

*1 You must have your camera firmware version 1.1 or later for movie photography using 4GB or larger micro SDHC card.
If the camera firmware is version 1.0, the data in the card may be damaged.