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posted by [personal profile] purplerabbits at 06:05pm on 09/07/2007
I am about to buy the camera from Amazon, having cheekily gone into Jessops and had a good poke at it. Just one query

Is there any advantage of XD over SD camera cards seeing as SD are half the price for the same memory?
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posted by [personal profile] babysimon at 05:13pm on 09/07/2007
No. SD is the closest thing there is to a standard, while XD is a Fuji / Olympus plot to lock you in, in the same manner as Sony and Memory Stick.
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posted by [identity profile] xquiq.livejournal.com at 05:54pm on 09/07/2007
I believe Jessops will price match online prices. Tim's got them to do it in the past.
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posted by [identity profile] cairmen.livejournal.com at 06:29pm on 09/07/2007
Not for memory cards, sadly.
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posted by [identity profile] alienspacebat.livejournal.com at 07:39pm on 09/07/2007
Jessops are so desperate to make any sales that they will price match on most items, including memory cards from some retailers but not 7day shop etc which are outside the UK. Certainly worth doing for the camera though as recently they also gave me 10% of the price difference discount in addition to a price match. Having a local shop to go to is always useful in case you need to use the guarantee
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posted by [personal profile] zotz at 06:12pm on 09/07/2007
Arguably there used to be some advantage, although they were always proprietary, but I'm not aware of any reason to use them now if you have the option not to.
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posted by [identity profile] autopope.livejournal.com at 06:25pm on 09/07/2007
Avoid XD like the plague; nothing else uses it. SD is the standard (and if possible, go for a camera that is SD-HC compatible: SDHC is the next-gen high capacity SD standard and they're already available and cheaper than SD per unit capacity).

Oh, and do not buy SD memory cards on the high street unless you enjoy being mugged. The going price for branded SDHC 8Gb cards on eBay is £35 including delivery; on the high street you'd be lucky to get 1Gb in SD for that.
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posted by [identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com at 07:05pm on 09/07/2007
If you subscribe to many neoclassical or Keynesian models of economics, buying XD instead of SD might stimulate the economy by increasing aggregate demand since it costs a lot more. Whether or not that's a good thing will be heavily mediated, of course, by the current macroeconomic situation.

On the other hand, the macroeconomic situation won't be massively affected should you choose to spend the money you save on something else instead.

Basically, the main difference is that XD costs more. There's not much in it practically. I'm guessing that your personal cost curve here isn't sloped funny, so that makes it less, not more, attractive as a proposition.
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posted by [personal profile] babysimon at 07:24pm on 09/07/2007
Isn't that an instance of the broken windows fallacy? :-p
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posted by [identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com at 07:36pm on 09/07/2007
Indeed! Just like Keynes' famous idea about the Treasury stimulating the economy by burying used banknotes in landfills and getting private enterprise to tender for the right to dig them up again. And Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat argument about thievery actually being a huge benefit to society. In my head it's also related to Flanders and Swann's The Gas Man Cometh ("It all makes work for the working man to do ...") but I think that's making a slightly different point.
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posted by [identity profile] the-magician.livejournal.com at 02:24am on 10/07/2007
Not unless your camera supports the panorama mode on Olympus xD cards (mine does!) or you're ok with a more expensive card that can only be used in a few brands of camera in exchange for it being half the size of SD (I have a little six xD card holder the size of a credit car (ish) and so that's really handy for carrying spare cards)

There was a recent review of card speeds and basically for most cameras, unless you're taking a lot of photographs in very quick succession, there's no need to buy the fastest memory cards (which are more expensive) ... but I know nothing about relative speeds between xD and SD. However there were definite speed variations between different brands and types of SD cards, and as Charlie said, make sure (if you can) that your camera supports SDHC as that's the new bigger capacity SD cards (but if you plan to share the cards with older cameras, then *don't* buy SDHC as they aren't backwards compatible ... and I believe that may be true of the card readers as well)

oh, and xD is a rarer card for "10 in 1" etc. card readers to handle, so another reasons to go SD. In fact the only reason I'd buy a camera that was xD now was because the camera had some feature I wanted and only used xD (the same with Sony Memory Stick) or because I already have half a dozen xD cards of different sizes ...
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