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Oct 10, 2020 15:19:26 #
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Oct 10, 2020 15:29:22 #
Leo_B
Loc: Houston suburb
billnikon wrote:
I think everyone on this site was sick when they taught 6th grade math. It is 12 cents a shot.
.12X250,000exposures=$300.00. It does not matter how you do it, you have got to move the decimal point. Do you get the point.
.12X250,000exposures=$300.00. It does not matter how you do it, you have got to move the decimal point. Do you get the point.
Go back and find my post and read it. Hopefully it will clear up the difference between $0.12 and 0.12 cents, the first one being 12 cents and the second being 12/100 of a cent. Just to be sure, I checked the ciphering with Jethro and he confirms it is correct.
Oct 10, 2020 15:32:37 #
Think about it this way: $300 divided by 250,000 = 0.0012. If they were $0.12 or 12 Cents, that would be
$0.12 x 250,000 = $30,000. That would be an expensive shutter.
12 cents is another way of saying 12/100 or 12%
If you think rough numbers 10% of 250,000 is 25,000, 12% of 250,000 is 30,000
Your clicks did not cost you 12 cents each, they cost $0.0012 each (100 times less)
$0.12 x 250,000 = $30,000. That would be an expensive shutter.
12 cents is another way of saying 12/100 or 12%
If you think rough numbers 10% of 250,000 is 25,000, 12% of 250,000 is 30,000
Your clicks did not cost you 12 cents each, they cost $0.0012 each (100 times less)
Oct 10, 2020 15:33:57 #
Oct 10, 2020 15:38:58 #
Leo_B
Loc: Houston suburb
I do have one error in my post. It's roughly 1/8 of a cent, not 1/12. I was looking at the 0.12 when my mind figured 1/8 and my eyes won and I put 1/12 by mistake.
Oct 10, 2020 15:52:21 #
CTTonymm
Loc: Connecticut
Sigh - this discussion reminds me of college engineering students attempting (usually in vain) to explain to non-engineering students just how it is that a slide rule can provide an accurate, precise answer. The need for estimating the answer in order to place the decimal point correctly seemed out of reach for most.....
Oct 10, 2020 17:35:15 #
Oct 10, 2020 18:55:54 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
Fredrick wrote:
12 cents a shot is 8.3333 shots per dollar. 8.3333 shots per dollar X 300 dollars is 2,500 shots ... not 250,000 shots. Boy, I’m really glad I didn’t go to your 6th grade class.
The OP said he got 250,000 shots out of his shutter, not 2,500. Please read the OP comment. Please settle down, and yes, you should have attended 6th grade math.
Oct 10, 2020 19:12:38 #
Leo_B
Loc: Houston suburb
billnikon wrote:
The OP said he got 250,000 shots out of his shutter, not 2,500. Please read the OP comment. Please settle down, and yes, you should have attended 6th grade math.
Did you read my post? I thought it pretty clearly and accurately walked step by step to the final figure of 8 shots per penny and if you get 8 shots per penny each shot is 1/8 of a penny or 1/8 of a cent which is 0.12 (cent). That is not saying 12 cents. And it is the correct answer regardless of what your math class taught.
Oct 10, 2020 20:54:26 #
billnikon wrote:
The OP said he got 250,000 shots out of his shutter, not 2,500. Please read the OP comment. Please settle down, and yes, you should have attended 6th grade math.
You STILL don’t get it, Bill. YOU’RE the one who said a new shutter costing $300 would amount to 12 cents an exposure. Your words, not mine.
Your answer of .12X250,000 exposures = $300 is “incorrect.” Pull out your calculator and do the math. That would be $30,000, which is ridiculous for an external drive.
What you should have said was it would amount to “.0012, or twelve one hundredths of 1 cent” ... not 12 cents. Read what you said.
Oct 10, 2020 23:31:06 #
Doc Mck
Loc: Terrell,Texas
I just bought a 5dmkIV used for $1725 with a shutter count of a few thousand. Looked like a new one. It took a couple of weeks of bidding and waiting until the right deal came along with a low shutter count. People are bailing out as they need the money. Many are switching to mirrorless for whatever reasons.
Oct 11, 2020 00:46:56 #
Oct 11, 2020 08:39:17 #
billnikon wrote:
Last time I checked, mirrorless still have shutters, which, I believe, will wear out.
Who is talking shutters ? I am referring to a transition to mirrorless..... Time to move up the food chain maybe.
Oct 13, 2020 14:35:52 #
rfmaude41
Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)
billnikon wrote:
New shutters are really reasonable, I got a new shutter in a Nikon for about $300.00. And considering I get about 250,000 clicks, that comes to about 12 cents per shot. I call that reasonable.
Not .12 per shot; its about 1/8 cents per shot (.0012 $'s).
Oct 13, 2020 15:09:28 #
Math 101:
1x8=8
2x8=16
3x8=24
4x8=32
5x8=40
6x8=48
7x8=56
8x8=64
9x8=72
10x8=80
OK class, tomorrow the 9's table........
1x8=8
2x8=16
3x8=24
4x8=32
5x8=40
6x8=48
7x8=56
8x8=64
9x8=72
10x8=80
OK class, tomorrow the 9's table........
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