Inserting the card (SmartMedia)

This reference manual uses the term “card” when referring to SmartMedia. The pictures you have taken are stored in the card.

Card basics

Images recorded and stored on the card can easily be erased, overwritten, and/or edited on a PC.

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Contact area

Comes into contact with the camera’s signal read contacts. Write-protect area

Attach the provided write-protect seal when you want to protect your data from accidental erasure or overwriting.

Index area

Use the provided index label to indicate the card’s contents.

The following cards can be used:

•Provided standard card

•Optional Olympus CAMEDIA-brand cards (4 MB - 128 MB)

•Commercially available 3 V (3.3 V) cards (4 MB - 128 MB)

• 2 MB cards cannot be used.

• Commercially available 5 V cards cannot be used.

• This camera may not recognize a non-Olympus card (such as a 3 V (3.3 V)), or a card that was formatted on another device (such as a PC, etc.). Before use, be sure to format the card on this camera.

“Formatting (Card setup)” ( p.82)

Handling precautions

•Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F); Storing

temperature: -20°C to 65°C (-4°F to 149°F); Humidity: up to 95%

•Put the card into its anti-electrostatic case for storage or transportation.

•Do not bend, drop, or apply any physical shock to the card.

•Do not touch the contact area of the card.

•Do not reuse the write-protect seal.

•Read the provided SmartMedia instruction manual carefully.

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