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snupis · Aug 26, 2004, 1:19 PM

Hi everybody,

after surfing the net and finding no answer to my question I decided to ask, maybe somebode of you knows what are benefits (if there are such) of XD card vs CF card?? The price of XD card is double CF. What I gain choosing it,speed???

I am plannig to upgrade (to buy a new one) my Olympus 4000z to Olympus C8080 Wide zoom. It accepts both type of card, so which one should I buy - cheaperCF or more expensive XD ???

NHL · Aug 26, 2004, 1:45 PM

The battle Royal is between sD and CF, not xD!

xD is just a side show with a hint of the "Beta" format... It could be 10 times better, but it the long run will lose out to the more populars formats. Beside most speed/sizes upgrades always showed up 1st on CF before trickling down to others

Think about what camera you'll be upgrading to in the future.

tsiya · Aug 26, 2004, 3:04 PM

You need to keep that C4000, too. It will do some things easily that the 8080 has to work hard at. I think CF is here for a long time to come.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/

Mikefellh · Aug 26, 2004, 3:17 PM

On Olympus cameras, the only benefit of xD is you can use the camera's panoramic mode...it's actually disabled if you only have a CF in the camera.

Personally, I'd just keep the xD that came with the camera in it for panoramic use, and use a higher capacity CF for everything else (the CF may actually save the pictures faster than the xD).

judell74 · Aug 28, 2004, 3:47 AM

XD- Very small &very fast but few digicams uses this (Fuji & Olympus). Also the biggest capacity is only 256mb (I think so!). Expensive!

CF- Big capacity (4gig max!). Many digicams uses this.

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Aug 26, 2004, 1:19 PM	#1
snupis Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 3	Hi everybody, after surfing the net and finding no answer to my question I decided to ask, maybe somebode of you knows what are benefits (if there are such) of XD card vs CF card?? The price of XD card is double CF. What I gain choosing it,speed??? I am plannig to upgrade (to buy a new one) my Olympus 4000z to Olympus C8080 Wide zoom. It accepts both type of card, so which one should I buy - cheaperCF or more expensive XD ???

Aug 26, 2004, 1:45 PM	#2
NHL Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: 39.18776, -77.311353333333 Posts: 11,599	The battle Royal is between sD and CF, not xD! xD is just a side show with a hint of the "Beta" format... It could be 10 times better, but it the long run will lose out to the more populars formats. Beside most speed/sizes upgrades always showed up 1st on CF before trickling down to others Think about what camera you'll be upgrading to in the future.

Aug 26, 2004, 3:04 PM	#3
tsiya Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: St. John's County, Florida Posts: 99	You need to keep that C4000, too. It will do some things easily that the 8080 has to work hard at. I think CF is here for a long time to come. http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/

Aug 26, 2004, 3:17 PM	#4
Mikefellh Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Posts: 1,707	On Olympus cameras, the only benefit of xD is you can use the camera's panoramic mode...it's actually disabled if you only have a CF in the camera. Personally, I'd just keep the xD that came with the camera in it for panoramic use, and use a higher capacity CF for everything else (the CF may actually save the pictures faster than the xD).

Aug 28, 2004, 3:47 AM	#5
judell74 Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 78	XD- Very small &very fast but few digicams uses this (Fuji & Olympus). Also the biggest capacity is only 256mb (I think so!). Expensive! CF- Big capacity (4gig max!). Many digicams uses this.