Product Description

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39025 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Wacom
• Model: PTZ930G
• Released on: 2004-12-15
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Dimensions: 5.51" h x 173.23" w x 133.86" l, 3.97 pounds

Features

• System: Win 98/2000/ME/XP
• Sprache: Int
• Bussytem: USB
• Garantie: 24

Manufacturer's Description
The A4 tablet size is perfect to provide a 1: 1 mapping ratio for most monitors and is ideal for artistic styles that need full arm motion. It features ExpressKeys and Touch Strips on both sides of the active area to accommodate left- and right-handed people. The Intuos3 A4 comes with the cord- and batteryless Intuos3 Grip Pen and the ballfree, cord- and batteryless Intuos3 Mouse to make the most intuitive input system for your computer.

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Customer Reviews

A tablet.
I bought this over a year ago now. I'm extremely happy with it, I've not had a single problem, unlike graphics tablets I've had in the past.
There are a few features that make this stand out.
On painter when you tilt the pen and say your using the air brush you will get a spray angle that mimic the angle of the tilt.(also in Photoshop) As you rotate the pen the style of the brush stroke changes.
which can be customised in programs like Photoshop and painter, This can be extremely useful when you want to change your style during digital painting.
There aren't any other graphics tablets out there that do this at the moment.
There are also a few other things that i quite like about it.
it feels like a pen for a start, it has some weight to it and the drawing surface isn't a horrible plastic like most. The nibs can be changed to give different drawing feels. Its very well built and robust and the covers don't move around. It has a touch scroll feature. That's fantastic as long as you disable the one next to the hand your using so you don't zoom in by mistake when painting.
However if your wanting to do photo manipulation or photo editing you maybe better off going with the intuos 2 or an older model, because a lot of the features maybe wasted.

So after thoughts on the product.
It has everything you could want and maybe more. Award winning service and it will probably outlast me.
The only problem i've found is replacement pieces like the pen look expensive. So don't lose it. All it needs is a coffee cup holder so that siblings don't put things on it's surface grrr!

Fits like a glove...
This is the best size to get a wacom tablet in, it's not too small that it becomes confusing when painting, yet not too big that it takes up a lot of space. It fits neatly onto my drawing board. I use it with Photoshop and that works nicely, I'll soon be using it with Painter. Easy intallation (don't lose that CD with the drivers), works on my desktop with 2 monitors and when I transfer it to my laptop it works just as well. The strip bar and keys are great, but dependent on which hand you use, one side may become redundant. Other than that, I love it to bits, only thing that would be better would be one of those Wacom Cintiq 21UXs, but who can afford that?!]

Excellent, bar a few minor niggles
Before buying one of these I struggled with a mouse to do photo editing in Photoshop, which is a royal pain as anyone who has tried it will know. I wasn't sure how easy it would be to draw on my desk while watching my screen and seriously considering dropping a wedge of cash on the Cintiq with it's built-in screen.

In the end I'm glad I went for this - it really doesn't take long to get to grips with it and being able to associate the pen pressure and tilt with things like brush sizes and colours makes such a huge difference it's hard to put it into words. The buttons and finger-strip on both sides of the tablet can be customised to do whatever you want, so I use the finger-strip to zoom so I can move in and out of the picture without selecting and re-selecting my tools.

The only minor niggles are that the driver software sometimes gets confused when I load Netscape and interprets the finger strip as wanting to zoom the font size rather than pan down the page and I personally find the buttons on the side of the supplied mouse irritating, although in fairness I didn't buy it for the mouse.

I can't honestly give this 5 out of 5, but if 4.5 was an option I'd have gone for that. Despite the niggles I have no regrets whatsoever about buying one.