No, I'm not selling them, but Morrison's are.

Until March 30th, Morrsion's are selling 2 Gb SD cards for £7.50 each, and they can be had in standard size, or the mini version for use in things like mobile phones.

I only spotted the stand with the offer by accident, and when I took the security tab to the checkout, the operator had never seen one before. She asked if I was really wanting to buy a wee bit of card, and I had to tell her that it was just a token, and that she had to call a supervisor/assistant over, and that they would fetch the actual item from the security store for her, which could then be scanned.

Bummer is that although I was sure my camera had been given an upgrade to used cards over 1 Gb, it's refusing to accept the card!

I suspect the problem is nothing to do with the card, and the camera's firmware was reset during one of it's warranty trips back to Konica-Minolta, after which they promptly sold up and went away! Well, actually Sony took over their interests, so it will be interesting to see if I can track down any firmware upgrades or revision - I see lost days wandering the web coming soon

I couldn't resist the urge to add another one, and picked up the tiny microSD version this time.

I was right about the camera and the firmware upgrade, but it turned out rather odd when I investigated.

Long story, not for here, but I have two versions of the same camera, one later than the other.

The newer model spent rather more time in a box, bouncing back and forth between the service dept and my local Post Office, while they failed miserably to stop it dying at embarrassing moments. Fortunately the last visit seems to have been successful - and explains why it has the old firmware that can't cope with a 2 Gb card. Equally fortunately, a spin around the web today trawled up the firmware revision, which has now been installed and updates the camera to work with 2 Gb cards.

The other, older model had already had the firmware upgrade for 2 Gb cards, so was no problem, but I decided to check the upgrade site and download it, just to be sure it was handy if ever needed, even though it shouldn't. SURPRISE! Even though I had done this well over a year ago, the download wasn't available, only the default version which only allows 1 Gb cards to be used. Most odd, and I interrogated the camera internally to prove it had later firmware installed, which it did, and was of a later version number than available for download. There shouldn't be a problem, firmware shouldn't spontaneously evaporate, but it is irritating.

I do like the warning that come with these upgrades- if you never have the need to track one down, then this is it: The upgrades are supplied for use at your own risk, and if the upgrade process fails, your camera will become inoperable, and will require to be returned to the factory for reset, at your own cost. (Or words to the same effect).

Still, at least it reminded me that I had actually done the upgrade before, and wasn't imagining things

I must have been lucky with my camera.  I bought a 2Gb card a while ago, inserted it and it worked.  Not knowing so much about computers I expected it to work with any size of card.  

Well, there's a warning for you.

The larger cards (and we're at 8 Gb now with this particular variant) need different software to access them, so older kit can't use them. 1 Gb was the largest envisaged a couple pf years ago, hence most kit is ok, 2 Gb and above can be a problem.

New stuff shouldn't be a problem, BUT it depends when it was developed, and I've seen some that won't go past 2 Gb.

Doesn't matter for cameras - 2 Gb is around 500-1,000 pics (double that in standard rather fine quality), but the latest HD camcorders can gobble up a 2 Gb card in less than an hour, so the bigger cards come in handy, especially if using modes that eat them even faster than that.

I tend to find myself in accord with the folk that are still running computers like the BBC micro. £25 a piece, and if you break it, you just go buy another one.

Are we (or is that they) doing any more today with a Vista PC that can barely limp along with 2 GB of RAM, a dual core processor, and 200 GB hard drive? While there are truly useful toys in the box, as anything more actually being achieved with the thousands upon thousands of extra lines of code being produced, and that has to be crunched before anything happens?

With a Beeb, you are are constrained to write code efficiently and economically in a few kB of memory. Make a mess, and there's just no space to over-run into.

Re Saltcoats, I thinks all the coastal resorts are playing the sea-defence card and getting theirs before the pot empties and Global Warming drowns them. At least two have already, but it takes years to get the council to approve the cash, so they must have started quite some time ago.