And Matter and Form’s Bevel (Review) didn’t convince me as a face scanner at all. I recently reviewed the Eora3D smartphone-based scanner which I think as great potential but is still a bit too limited for automatic 360-degrees object scanning with the current app, especially the meshed results. So I thought that desktop 3D scanners with lasers where a bit passe. Structured light-based desktop scanners were just becoming more affordable with the introduction of the EinScan-S (Review) which was a bit rough around the edges but made detailed scans quite fast. I have used both the MakerBot Digitizer and Matter and Form V1 a few times but I never officially reviewed them because their scan quality and long scanning times seemed a bit sub-par to me at the time I started reviewing 3D scanners. Nowadays you can still get one brand new for $399 on Amazon. Is was originally priced at $600 - less than half of the MakerBot Digitizer. And the whole contraption could be folded into a case so you could take it everywhere. This meant it could scan objects that were taller. This first generation device, now known as MFS1 V1, also featured two lasers but did have a color camera.Īnd on top of that, the scan head could automatically move upwards by means of a threaded rod, very similar to desktop 3D printers. But not much later a company called Matter and Form announced their take on the MakerBot Digitizer. 3D Systems introduced the Sense handheld 3D scanner, which actually was the first 3D scanner I reviewed. But it was probably an experiment just as desktop 3D printers were.Īnyway at that moment in time (and it’s only 5 years ago really) more companies started betting on the affordable 3D scanner market. It didn’t capture color and the geometry it captured wasn’t very detailed. Truth be told, you couldn’t scan a lot of things with it - mainly small toys and trinkets. MakerBot had the Digitzer - a small turntable combined with two lasers and a camera. When I was testing 3D printers I did know that there were also 3D scanners because they used to be marketed towards the same audience. That review drove a lot of interest and got me into reviewing other 3D printers until I decided I didn’t like those machines at all and switched to 3D scanning - the rest is history. Accidentally, I created my very first blog post. I didn’t like it at all, so I started complaining about it on my website. That is when I bought my first 3D printer, a 5th Gen MakerBot Replicator. This is a bit of background info about the history of affordable 3D scanners, so feel free to skip the intro and drive right into the Review.īack in 2013, desktop 3D printers were supposedly going mainstream. Bellus3D Face Camera Pro (IR Sensor, Android).
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