Has anyone else noticed that 4GB cards are getting hard to find ?

Since I'm back to College next week I was looking at my spare card situation.

In the course I did in January to March I completely filled a 2GB card and had to start a 4GB one and had very little room left on it at the end - and remember I'm still shooting in JPEG.

OK so I need more cards - SDHC ones and I like Lexar or Sandisk - but my last purchases have been Lexar Professional 133 X Speed Class 10s. Mebbe for my use a tad overkill - but they have been flawless in use and once filled they are archived and not re-used.

Now in May/June I was able to buy these for about £17 each from 7 day shop including postage - Amazon was about £1 more as I had to pay postage to them [ what was interesting was that 7Day Shop's price through Amazon was more than going to 7 Day shop itself ]

So of course I looked first at Amazon --- NO SDHC Lexar Pro 4GB cards Tried 7 day shop - same result.

8GB cards - no problem but these are over £30 !!

So I took a look at Sandisk - now if you are lucky you might be able to find one .

There are plenty Class 2s around but I don't want them .

I had a moan at Photomonk about this [ well 'twas him that started me on the Lexars ] and his comment was that he had heard that the industry was standardising on 8GB cards - so the 4s were indeed becoming very hard to find.

Anyone else heard this ?

After doing a fair amount of scrolling down I did get to the original article

http://www.rutherglenreformer.co.uk/rutherglen-news/rutherglen-local-news/2010/0...

Now let's see if it's possible to get the letter page

It appears possible

http://www.rutherglenreformer.co.uk/rutherglen-news/rutherglen-local-news/

But the paper comes out on Wednesdays and what's on at present is last week's edition and the comment [ which was front page news ] about the wheelchair photographer is not obvious - I'm off on the hunt for it

OOPS - that's NOT nice

Hope you manage to get another one and it's perfect

Well - returning to the original post

My letter to the local paper has been published today in full - we'll wait and see now what happens .

My beer was Leffe Brune

Pork and apple sausages and some potato wedges for me - and a glass of Costières de Nimes

you mean this one ?
link

hmmm - you seem to have had the bad weather over the weekend that wasn't in some areas of Belgium .

A good friend from London hopped over to Brussels on Friday evening by Eurostar expecting , thanks to the forecast, lousy weather. In fact he had great weather no rain on Friday evening , a wee shower while on the train to Ghent and a positive downpour and thunder etc on Sunday evening about 15 mins after the Eurostar pulled out of Bruxelles Midi . Thoroughly enjoyed his weekend he did - a fair amount of beer , and since he was staying with a Ukrainian , a good amount of Ukrainian Vodka

ah now come on - I'm not talking about toys . I'm not talking about books .

What I am talking about is the sort of stuff that Tamron put out about testing lenses before you buy them .

You folk have been into photography longer than me .

People who start out with DSLRs could do with interesting short videos etc - the Tamron ones look great and it should not really cost Pentax much to make them.

We've all being saying [ well you lot have ] what you would like Pentax to give in their next camera . I remember we have all been moaning about the poor Pentax site till recently - now I'm just making suggestions as to what could be added to help beginners .

I suspect that there are many who would look at the various Pentax Sites and the other makers ones too - and then make a choice. It is just feaseable that having this extra support could possibly bring in some new users . If we don't attract new users to the Pentax experience then it will die

Polchraine -- my pockets are not deep - money comes out when necessary but I want good value for my £££££