( 20 reviews )
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Posted: Jul 6 2009
This Tablet is amazing! I use it to draw caricatures and do Industrial Design work. I use it in a number of orientations while drawing. I used to own a bamboo and just could not upgrade until now. Its an investment but will pay itself back in no time. Take the plunge if your wanting to take your digital art and design to the next level, but only if you can justify the purchase with real work. Its not a toy unless your rich :) The only thing I wish worked better are the edges of the screen/ workable surface. I have a mac and a my hidden app. bar genies away but cannot be retrieved with just the pen/ stilus very easily. Maybe there is a setting I need to look at, but other than that its amazing and well worth the purchase for any series artist.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 29 2009
I'm so glad to have bought this off Amazon for three reasons. I got it cheaper than the price stated on the Wacom site, the shipping was free and I got it in 4 days from the day I bought it under the "free shipping" plan. Cintiqs are some of the best hardware floating around the market for Animators and artists alike. With the real time feel of drawing right on the Screen and softwares that support the Wacom's pressure sensitive and tilt features, this is a boon to the industry. I would love to give this product a 5/5 for everything but I think it loses a star only because of its high price.
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Posted: Jun 7 2009
There isn't anything I would change about this other than the price. I wish it were a little less expensive, yet it feels well worth the price. I love the way it doubles as a second monitor, and I simply hit a release switch to swivel it into a horizontal position when I'm ready to draw. I'm using it with a Mac OS X 10.5.6 and it is working flawlessly. (Very rarely there's a brief catch-up period where the pen has traveled faster than the ink, but this does NOT happen often.) If you're using a non-screen tablet and wondering if this is worth the jump, I think it is. There is a disconnect with tablet drawing that occurs with scale that becomes easier to defeat when you're right on top of what you're drawing. I've owned two different non-screen tablets and they each collected dust a couple weeks after purchase. I'm still going strong with this one. Maybe if you got used to a non-screen tablet, good for you, and keep at it -- if you need something a bit more literal, and a whole lot more like paper and pencil, this is for you.
