Hello everyone, so I recently purchased a Revopoint Mini 2, following ChatGPT’s advice that this scanner would be the best for scanning my ear. On my first attempts however, I am worries that I should have gone with the POP3. While it gets the shape of my ear, I find its quite scattered, and not sure if I can improve upon this. I am trying to do it myself, which might make it a bit more difficult. Does anyone have any advice on how I should go about getting an accurate scan of my ear. This is for a specific project. Would I have been better of going with the POP3? The mini 2 i though would be better since its made for details. I have not tried yet using the markers, only the details setting.
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It always helps, if you can share your exact scanning settings and some photos of what you were able to get or what the scan looks like.
Mini2 should be able to scan your ear perfectly fine in the feature mode, but if you are too shaky it might loose tracking and maybe someone else should the scan for you. I advise you to scan in some dark room, especially stay away from the sunlight through the windows as much as possible.
I would lay down with head on the side so it is stabilized during the scan.
No matter which scanner you use, it can only scan what both its cameras see, which is the outer ear and the entrance of the auditory canal.
You could scan outer ear with mini2 or pop3 , then make an impression of the auditory canal with some silicone mold kit (I’ll put some links below), scan the mold, align it with the scan of outer ear, maybe using cloudcompare software or manually (depending on required precision ), and finaly combine these the scans by subtracting the mold scan from the outer ear scan, which you could do in Meshmixer (look for “boolean difference” or “combine” tool).
In the outer ear scan, you will have to add some extra volume by using sculpt brush to be able to do that boolean or combine operation. All depending on what your final goal is.
Mini2 can scan in ultra high details which may be an overkill for this object. Depending what your other projects might be, POP 3 might be plenty for both this project , as it can scan very high details , too , but might be a more versatile scanner because it is an IR-scanner with bigger FOV. You might check some scans done with it by using forum search function.
Good luck with your project and don’t forget to share your results 
Happy scanning!
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Wow! Thank you so much for all that information! Very helpful! Are you interested in some paid 1:1 tutoring of myself via video link, as I’d be happy to reimburse for your time. It would be maybe a couple of hours to help me refine the process as I will be scanning many people’s ears, so refining the process and making it efficient is very important.
I have had some more success but there is some roughness which I’ve tried to smooth. The settings were just default settings, with the flash on, and I found using the single shots helped me do it myself and took away some of the shake.
I do not need the inner ear, and I was able to fill some of the holes.
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I sent you am DM/chat (look at the talk bubble above).