When is it cheaper to rent a Canon EOS R8 Mirrorless Camera by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $60 day rate would be $420, but the weekly rate caps it at $361.

When is it cheaper to rent a Canon EOS R8 Mirrorless Camera on the 28-day rate?

From day 20. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,080 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

Canon EOS R8 Mirrorless Camera

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Day: $60
Week: $361
28 days: $1,080

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $420. On the week rate it is $361.

Weekly stops winning on

day 20

20 days at the day rate would be $1,200. On the 28-day rate it is $1,080.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for Canon EOS R8 Mirrorless Camera, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$60	$60	—	day
2	$120	$120	—	day
3	$180	$180	—	day
4	$240	$240	—	day
5	$300	$300	—	day
6	$360	$360	—	day
7	$420	$361	you save $59	week
8	$480	$421	you save $59	week
9	$540	$481	you save $59	week
10	$600	$541	you save $59	week
11	$660	$601	you save $59	week
12	$720	$661	you save $59	week
13	$780	$721	you save $59	week
14	$840	$722	you save $118	week
15	$900	$782	you save $118	week
16	$960	$842	you save $118	week
17	$1,020	$902	you save $118	week
18	$1,080	$962	you save $118	week
19	$1,140	$1,022	you save $118	week
20	$1,200	$1,080	you save $120	28-day
21	$1,260	$1,080	you save $180	28-day
22	$1,320	$1,080	you save $240	28-day
23	$1,380	$1,080	you save $300	28-day
24	$1,440	$1,080	you save $360	28-day
25	$1,500	$1,080	you save $420	28-day
26	$1,560	$1,080	you save $480	28-day
27	$1,620	$1,080	you save $540	28-day
28	$1,680	$1,080	you save $600	28-day
29	$1,740	$1,140	you save $600	day
30	$1,800	$1,200	you save $600	day
31	$1,860	$1,260	you save $600	day
32	$1,920	$1,320	you save $600	day
33	$1,980	$1,380	you save $600	day
34	$2,040	$1,440	you save $600	day
35	$2,100	$1,441	you save $659	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.