intuos tablet
intuos tablet
Drawing tablet should I get? Cintiq, Intuos, Graphire or Bamboo?
I have a little over $ 250.00, and I want to buy a tablet. What is best to buy, what sites or purchase price of research? Thank you
Short answer: Save money and get bamboo. They are fantastic. I am an illustrator I used Wacom tablets for about 6 years. Wacom tablets are all wonderful. I started with a Graphire and used for about 2 years. I "upgraded" to the Graphire 2, thinking it would be a difference because it is a new model. Not one iota of difference. Some time after that, upgraded to the Intuos 3. What a disappointment. I could not tell the difference between this and the Graphire (model much cheaper). Twice the pressure sensitivity? Whatever. (For your information, Graphire has 512 levels of pressure sensitivity, while Intuos has 1024) Traveling a little behind, I was without a shelf so I bought the cheapest I could find at Circuit City. The Wacom Bamboo. It's nice and compact, and has a surface much, much better. It feels as if you put a pencil on paper instead of a pencil on a sheet of plastic wax. It has a detachable cable, too (mini USB). One of my old tablet is dead because the bone was damaged, so I am excited by this function. Have nice little buttons that I use for strikes, and an area finger touchpad that lets you zoom in and out easily. I can not tell the difference between the 512 levels of sensitivity and 1024. I think it's all marketing BS. Bamboo is heralded as a great tool for things as signing your name and write notes, but I use it 8 hours a day for illustration and flash animation (drawing lots). I put my two Intuos3 tablets on eBay. : P The only downside to bamboo is that the project feels a bit on the phone. Wacom stored. The Intuos and Graphire have better tires to erase. I do not use the eraser anyway, so do not bother me. And if you've never used a tablet, a feature is not lost.
