FlyerTalk Forums - Where to buy XD cards?

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Originally Posted by fisherman

Do her a favor and have her return the camera. xD-picturecard is going nowhere (no widescale adoption) and will always be quite a bit more expensive than the rest. She'll not be able to walk into a normal store and use a kiosk to make prints directly from the card, either.

Besides, the Olympus/Fuji cameras are not the greatest ones out there.

I totally disagree with this. I have had Olympus cameras for many years and love them. I have shot tens of thousands of pictures on digital media, and not once have I ever wanted to stroll into a store and make prints at a kiosk. I have two of their cameras that take the XD cards (one both smart and SC, the XD are far more reliable then the Smart ones are), and wouldn't give up either.

And the line about not being to walk into a normal store and doing it is pure hogwash. Kodak kiosk printers accept SECUREDIGITAL (SD) cards, MultiMedia Card (MMC), COMPACTFLASH, SMARTMEDIA, MEMORY STICK, MEMORY STICK PRO and xD-PICTURE card (from the Kodak Website). BT Internet Kiosks in the UK accept them. Many of the burn your images to CD in the stores accept them. The Cheki Kiosks Accept them. BCS Accepts them. From kiosk magazine, at the Kiosk Trade show in February of this year about the top 20 kiosk printers:

Speaking of digital camera format support, most of the shoot-out entries supported all four main types of digital memory card ports: Matsu****a's SD Card (this slot/port also reads MMC), Fuji's tiny new XD Card, Sony's Memory Stick, and the CFA's CF Card (CFA is Compact Flash Association).

If she likes the camera, then she should keep it. Virtually nobody but Sony accepts their memory format, hasn't hurt them a bit.