Olympus Reviews

Thank heavens analogue cameras standardised on 35mm. Just imagine you went into a shop and had a choice of 2inch, 30mm, 25mm, 33mm, 35mm etc films, only one of which would fit your camera. Olympus have done a Sony and repackaged the same old memory chips (e.g. SD, MMC, SM, CF, MD) as xD and decided to sell it at twice the price of SD memory. Once you buy one of their (admittedly good) digital cameras the small xD market will force you to buy expensive memory that is incompatible with almost everything else our there. As I already own some cheap standard SD memory that's not usable in most Olympus cameras, I have had to look elsewhere for a camera :o(

I bought this item from the local office supply store. Costco has it cheaper and has a better return policy (and is 5 min. from my house). Buy this where it makes sense.

Several reviewers have indicated xD memory is a commodity. Buyer beware: If you have an Olympus digital camera, and you shoot in the Panorama mode (which I use regularly and really like when snowboarding and backpacking), you HAVE TO HAVE AN OLYMPUS BRANDED xD CARD; non-Olympus cards don't support and won't enter the mode

I bought this adapter because of concerns over how long it took to download directly fromt the camera. So far, I have been able to successfully download through the adapter once out of 5+ tries. Rereading the instructions, hasn't helped, and Olympus has been less than helpful in getting it to work as advertised. You are probably better off with a direct card reader.

It works as advertised, and if you want a quick way to downloadyour work, this will do the job. The trouble is getting it startworking! Took awhile to get everything installed correctly and then I had to keep popping the floppy out and back into the drive so the software would be reminded to look for the presence of the special floppy! Probably does this to save the battery, but it is irritating. I have a 450Mhz Pent III, I hook the camera in direct and have no problems. I could have done without this pricey accessory, but I may be glad when I am trying to save stuff on my clunky old company issued laptop.

I recently purchased an Olympus digital camera and took the suggestion from one of the reviews and purchased a floppy adapter. I'm very happy with it! It makes downloading pictures much easier, and can also be used as a general purpose, large floppy disk. In fact, I use it much more to transfer files between PCs than as a camera accessory.

My recommendation is to buy one, but NOT this one! Again from one of the Olympus reviews, I found the real manufacturer of these adapters--a company called SmartDisk. You get the same thing for $20 less, plus if you use SmartMedia cards, you get an 8MB card included free (at least as of 2/20 stated as a "Limited Time Offer"). I suggest you check it out!

I plugged my PCMCIA smart media adaptor into my Windows ME box, and it worked perfectly with my 64MB smartmedia memory. My only complaint is that they don't have linux support for it.

This adapter blows the doors off of other means to get the pictures from your Olympus Camera (for example, the D450Z) back to your computer. My wife uses our HP PhotoSmart P1000 printer to send the pictures back to her desktop, but I wanted something fast to use in the field. Enter the PCMCIA adapter! Simply plug the SmartMedia card in the end (up to 32MB in size) and insert into your Type II slot. It's treated as just another EIDE drive, so you probably already have the drivers available! Transfer rates are phenomenal, and it makes the Olympus "Slide Show" software much nicer to use as a result. Great for those after-the-party pictures at conferences! Be careful, though -- the instructions on the adapter on how to insert the SmartMedia card are accurate, but deceptive; I inserted the chip in upside down (which it will do without complaint, but won't work either) and was confused for a little while. Read what it says and shows, and you'll be fine.

This adapter is available in 'generic' form from several camera stores (wolf camera, for instance) and is much cheaper. However, if you *MUST* have the Olympus name, this will work. I've plugged one of each into my D450Z (great digital camera!) and there was no difference. Save your money, if you can.

It should be a good smart digital camera. It only deserves four stars because of Korean made stuff. I lost it after I dropped and fell into pieces. I bought this camera from Traveler Photo & Electronics at Taylor Street , San Francisco at a much highter price that your price. I suggest your price is reliable.