Wacom intuos5 S or?
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Hey i'm going to buy a new tablet and i have decided to buy a Wacom and probably a intuos5 S. And i was just wondering if anyone had one and thought it it was a good choice and if its worth the price. And also wondering what other use and what they think are good about them.
Any tips are welcome, The biggest question for me if i should buy a Small or Medium.
Any tips are welcome, The biggest question for me if i should buy a Small or Medium.
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Wacom size depends on your style of painting and how much desk space you have. If you draw more with wrist action, a smaller tablet is fine. If you like making larger sweeping movements with your forearm, go bigger. If you have the room, that is.
The smallest size IMO is too small. I usually end up getting the 6x8 tablets (medium), but I do love 9x12's, when I get to use them.
Very interesting. Tempted to order the 12x9 instead of finding a 2nd hand wacom.
E: Don't know if they sell to UK though
After trying different drivers and installing it multiple times he asked Wacom Support, they had him do a factory reset on his computer, which made it work for a couple of day. But then it went back to uninstalling or not listening to the drivers again.
I'm not sure when they plan to fix the issue, but apparently he wasn't the only person with that problem when looking through Wacom's Support section. You could take a chance or you could check to see if there is a chance for these problems to happen with older Wacom Tablets, I haven't heard of it happening with older ones much though.
Mono's was Half the price with more features its just the Pens use batteries
I have rechargeable batteries so I feel like a dope for going with the more costly with less features
intuos 5 drivers are shit. I have a no-touch model and the 2 builds released this year are so far terrible, they keep crashing and/or stop working for no apparent reason every couple days or so
(I'm on mac os, and intuos 3 drivers were literally perfectly stable)
I suppose they will get better later in development, but right now, I'm pretty disappointed by driver. tablet itself is good, not much of update compared to intuos 4 though.
My solution was to create a tiny batch file on my desktop (with a humorous first-aid icon) that I could quickly run to fix it. The code is:
echo off
net stop TabletServiceWacom
net start TabletServiceWacom
I don't know how light this possibly can be, but you can see if the vendors that this site gets these AAs from has AAA batteries of this type.
https://www.inventables.com/technologies/usb-rechargeable-battery
UC-Logic, the OEM who actually makes the Monoprice line, does have wireless models. I can't speak to the quality. I haven't tried them.
They make a tablet monitor/Cintiq knockoff similar to the Bosto/Yiynova/Waltops that I've reviewed, but the devil is in the details on those.
The tablet monitor series is only 2000lpi insofar as digitizer resolution is concerned and that's half the regular tablet's. I'm betting, based on my experience reviewing similarly spec'd hardware, that there'd be significant jitter.
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I've been collaborating on an opensource Mac driver for the Waltop based Yiynova monitors with Udo Killerman. It currently exists as a command line paramater controlled daemon, and does allow one to increase the interpolated line averaging and find a sweet spot between lag and correction, but it's less than ideal.
I'm learning a lot about how digitizers work in the process of testing and configuring the Waltop/Yiynova.
I'd say, from testing all this different hardware, that the Monoprice/UC-Logic does the least averaging/correction and feels the snappiest of any manufacturer. Even Wacom.
Their driver lacks per-app software settings, but the pressure curve on the pen feels more natural (Wacom styli feel great at first, but quickly lose light-touch pressure sensitivity after break in, requiring constant replacement to feel a full pressure range, to my hand).
I've been using a Monoprice for all my work for a little over a month. I sold my Cintiq to a pal and my MacPro to another pal, and I plan on being more mobile with a MacBook (trying to wait for the Ivy Bridge refresh) and the Monoprice.
The only drawback? Some apps look for a Wacom driver to be present and loaded before enabling tablet features, so I recommend people install them alongside your Monoprice drivers. They don't have any effect on the tablet at all - they just trick some stubborn apps into complying.
I ordered one (My intous finally gave in after 4 years of wonderful service) after seeing this thread and just wanted to second what was said here. The "snappiness" and responsiveness is INSANE. I'll be putting it through it's paces this weekend.
Thank Ray, I wouldn't have heard of Monoprice otherwise. I hope it works out as well for you as it did for him
I've heard of getting a bunk pen initially (in one case, a dead battery that shipped with the unit, in another case, a stylus tip that needed to be reseated because it wasn't put in right at the factory), but the vast, vast majority of the reviews were positive.
Tens of thousands of people reshared the post on Tumblr, etc, and I've only gotten one or two emails from people having problems (and all problems were fixed with installing drivers or replacing batteries except for one fella who snapped the stylus in half while trying to put the battery in).
I'm just glad Wacom has some competition.
MrHobo, isn't the snappiness/lack of averaging/low latency super nice? That's what sold me on it, 100%.