Introduction

PNY Technologies allows professional photographers and enthusiasts the freedom to entrust their most valuable photographs with the latest flash card format. As a leader in the flash card market, PNY Technologies has signed a distribution agreement with Olympus Imaging America to introduce the xD-Picture Card. Designed for today's most popular, digital cameras, PNY's new xD-Picture Card features a smaller form factor that provides greater storage capacities and faster data transfer speeds. The xD-Picture Card format takes advantage of the "panorama" feature set available on Olympus digital cameras, so users can take panoramic pictures.
PNY and Olympus
"Resulting from increased market growth in portable, compact digital cameras, PNY Technologies is pleased to partner with Olympus to deliver our customers the xD-Picture Card," said John Orzepowski, marketing manager for flash media, digital entertainment PNY Technologies. "As demand for new flash formats continues to increase, PNY will offer more choices for popular digital solutions. Therefore users can enjoy today's sleek, stylish digital cameras while gaining increased memory capacity to ensure high quality photos."
Capacity
The xD-Picture card is about the size of a postage stamp, its large capacity allows high megapixel photos and offers the high performance needed to store video clips. PNY Technologies' new xD-Picture Card is available in 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB and 1GB storage capacities. The cards will be available in May from Staples and Office Depot throughout North America.
PNY Technologies
PNY Technologies offers a full line of digital media solutions to meet a range of professional and amateur needs. PNY's digital media product line includes: Attache, Executive Attache and Collegiate Attache USB 2.0 flash drives; the PNY Optima CompactFlash Professional Series, CompactFlash cards, Secure Digital cards, SmartMedia cards and MultiMedia cards; as well as single and multi slot USB 2.0 card readers and PCMCIA adapters.
About Olympus
Olympus is one of the world's leading manufacturers of opto-digital products for business, leisure, medicine, science and industry. The parent company was founded in Japan in 1919. Just one year later, Olympus produced Japan's first microscope -- the Asahi. The product line of the Olympus Imaging America Inc. consists of digital and analogue compact cameras, digital SLR cameras, lenses and a host of further accessories, photo printers, storage media, binoculars and voice processing systems.