Fujifilm P2?

If something costs $1500 for 8 GBs and then two years later it costs $1500.00 for 32 GBs, then the cost per gigabyte has dropped 400%.

Or to put it another way, the cost per gigabytes is 4x cheaper.

We can argue about how to phrase it, but the point is clear, donchathink?
 
KMR said:
??? Once a price drops 100%, I don't see how it can drop any further...
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You are correct. A 100% "drop" ====> would be the entire enchillada. .:beer:.

Regardless, this Fuji P2 vapor ware must be frustrating to the users of this medium.

JohnG
 
David S. said:
If something costs $1500 for 8 GBs and then two years later it costs $1500.00 for 32 GBs, then the cost per gigabyte has dropped 400%.

Or to put it another way, the cost per gigabytes is 4x cheaper.

We can argue about how to phrase it, but the point is clear, donchathink?
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If we really want to go into this....

No offense, Dave, but this is acyually one of my pet peeves. You can't use a fractions/percentages with the lesser of a comparison. "50% smaller", "half as cheap", "twice as low"... just doesn't work. "Half as expensive", "twice as big", "three times taller" - that all works.

Anyway, again no offense, as said, prices can't drop 400%. $1500/8 GB is about $200/GB. $1500/32GB is about $50/GB. The price has dropped by about 75%.

Now, if the trend was reversed (SD cards becomming a rare commodity and more expensive), then we'd see aprice/GB growth of 400% from the 32GB/$1500 to the 8GB/$1500.

Basically, in these comparisons, we're looking at a measure. It may be height, cost, capacity, time. When we say "3 times as tall", we mean 3 X height. When we say "holds half as much", it means 0.5 X capacity.

Both "expensive" and "cheap" are words we use to discuss cost. But when we say half as expensive, we understand "half the cost". It doesn't seem intuitive, but by "half as cheap", we also mean half the cost.

Think of it this way - "How expensive is an HPX500? Oh, about $15,000."* Clear, right?
But, "How cheap is an HV20? Oh, about $1000"* The only answer, right?

So, how much cheaper is an HV20 than an HPX500?
Cost of HV20 is 1000. Cost of HPX500 is $15000. HV20 costs 1/15th (about 6%) the cost of an HPX500. An HV20 is 6% as expensive as an HPX500. An HPX500 costs 1500% as much as an HV20. It's 15 times more expensive. But how much cheaper is the HV20 than the HPX500? You can say it's $14,000 cheaper. But as, in this comparison, we don't consider the HPX500 cheap, then the HV20 can't be some number of times cheaper. Cheap is relative to something more expensive, and we don't have a fixed comparator for the HPX here. We're pegged at "0" for comparisons of cost, and expensiveness. There's no firm reference for "cheapness"

So: it's important to know what quantity your percentages/fractions apply to, and use the correct grammatical construction and words to make clear what your comparison means. You say, "you know what I mean"... but I DON'T! 400% price drop does not hold any meaning for me, unless you mean that panasonic is now PAYING ME $150/GB to take P2 cards off their hands....

That would be acceptable to me!



* Prices are approximate MSRP. HPX price does not include necessary lenses or P2 media. Prices are subject to change.
 
I don't take any offense. In fact, I'm terrible about pointing out errors in language, vocabulary and syntax, etc. :)

The point I was trying to make is that the price of p2 cards per gigabyte, at least when we bought a 8 GB card was $200.00 per gigabyte.

Now the price is $50.00 per gigabyte.

8 GB @ $1600.00 = $200 per gigabyte

32 GB @ 1600.00 = $50.00.

Another way of putting it is that you get 4x as much storage now for the same price.

Whether that is a 75% reduction or a 400% is for the marketing people
 
I believe the point is: Why should Fuji even bother if their price isn't competitive(lower)?

Why would anybody steer from the tried and true Panasonic cards?
 
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