The Bambu Labs P1S + AMS at $450 is worth your attention—it's genuinely underpriced for what you get, and it's pushing the whole industry to stop pretending $1K+ entry points are defensible. Meanwhile, ignore the photographer angle piece; 3D printing *can* complement photography workflows, but the real story is that Bambu's pricing aggression is finally making desktop 3D a mass-market tool instead of a hobbyist tax. On the software side, Prusa's steady firmware updates (6.6.1, Slicer 2.9.6) and Marlin 2.1.2.8 show the open-source stack is mature—what matters now isn't version numbers, it's whether your machine *ships* with good defaults out of the box, which Bambu clearly understands better than most.