Wait until OP finds out about powder bed printers (both the powder+resin and the laser… and the dmsl…) or paste extrusion.

Or my favorite…. The chocolate printers (Okay, so that was basically a modified FDM with an all metal hotnend- instead of filament it took a relatively large rod of said chocolate,)

Same. And same.

I have a Mars 2 Pro which was quite cheap when the 3 came out. Excellent, extremely fine detail printing. More brittle than filament, but on the other hand very heat resistant. But a very small build volume.

I also have an Artillery Sidewinder X2. That one can print huge stuff. I upgraded to the all metal extruder, and 0.6mm hardened steel nozzle. That means it can print basically every kind of filament, and with layer lines of up to 0.4mm it can print huge objects really fast. So fast on big stuff, but lower detail quality. Different trade offs making it really good for different tasks. I printed a vase mode bin for my plastic waste last week that used almost the entire build volume in about 9 hours. But I also have some mods on it - several of which i actually printed on the resin printer !

They are both really good at different types of jobs. If you are getting a first printer though, think about what you want to do and buy the best one. If you want to make jewelry, art of tabletop minis - nothing beats resin. You can’t get a solid one for 200 bucks or so (maybe another 50-75 for materials, PPE and a curing chamber). If you want to build large, functional parts - get an FDM printer.

Oh and resin is actually fantastic for lithophanes, especially if you have a flex plate. Print directly on the plate and your photo will have fantastic quality, and only take about 10m to print because of the whole-layer-at-once printing method.