A non-Olympus brand xD-Picture Card

You may use any brand xD Picture Card. The key is that it be an "xD" card, not the far more common "SD" card.

No. This camera works with xD Picture Cards up to 2GB in size.

The problem is that the largest xD card that your camera can support is an M or H 512mb card. The 1gb or 2gb cards are not compatible. The firmware in the camera cannot support memory storage with that capacity. The camera came out before those cards did and there no plans to upgrade the camera to allow those types of cards to be supported.

If you have a combo media-reader, put the xD card in that and connect it to computer. Copy all images through the reader. Then format the xD card. Now it should work okay.

make sure that xd is selected in the menu...if you have compact flash in your camera, take it out and try again

What is the advantage of a 1 gig over two 512meg cards: Usually the 1 gig will be priced lower than 2 512 cards. The 1 gig card will hold twice as many photos. That is about it. .................... Brand name has turned out to be a non-issue for almost all memory cards. They have to be made to a standard and they will all work. Olympus and Fujifilm came up with the xD card. And Sandisk is a trusted card maker. I believe that Olympus may have a stitch feature that is only available if you use the Olympus brand of card. A gimmick to sell more of their brand of cards. This is pretty much of a non issue too, as there are plenty of software programs that can do stitching for panorama photos.

Yes, an Olympus brand xD-Picture Card also offers the ability to use the Panorama function.

Yes, an Olympus brand xD-Picture Card also offers the ability to use the Panorama function.

I do, it works fine but if you want to use the panorama function you have to have the olympus brand card.

Yes, third-party brand xD Picture Cards can be used to record images. Please note that an Olympus brand xD card is necessary to use the Panorama function on the camera.