Originally Posted By: canuckInOR
Yeah... you just gotta be careful about doing that. Some camera makers (notably Olympus) will disable features if the card wasn't formatted in the camera, and/or isn't their brand of card.

I think it is only the "special" Olympus branded xD and SmartMedia cards that do the checks? They're exactly the same as a regular xD card but they've got a flag in the header which you can't normally access that tells the camera to enable the extra features.