Thanks everyone! Love to hear more about it…
Gotz, you’re probably right, but my hope is if my client needs it, I may not need to rent one as an architectural company may have one I can futz around with on the project in my free time - if the timing is tight and they need it fast I’ll probably have to go with getting a small company or person to do it for me…
Oh and as for the question of what differences, there is this thread from about 2 years ago…
https://support.capturingreality.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000778231-PTX-Photos
Couple of photos, but this one speaks the most to me:
https://www.capturingreality.com/forum/download/file.php?id=31
The detail that the LiDAR picked up, depending on how much time it adds to the shoot, may be worth it for some bigger projects if I land them in the future. I’m trying to figure out if I’d be spending more time in post (Modo/Z-brush) cleaning up something like that stairway and door or if the LiDAR scans would pick them up for me. As discussed in that thread it seems to destroy reflective objects, but those are easier to fix than something like a stair reconstruction…