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Wacom Intuos4 Medium Pen Tablet

Professional photographers, designers and artists agree: Intuos4 pen tablet speeds up production time for photo editing, design and art creation. When working with digital assets, there isn't a more natural tool than a pen for increased comfort and control. With 48.5 square inches of working area, this tablet provides ample workspace. Built with eight Express Keys and illuminated Express Key displays that provide easy reference to your assigned functions. Featuring Waco’s new tip sensor technology to deliver an even finer level of control. You can initiate pen pressure control with near-zero starting pressure and a feather-light touch. With 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and 60 degrees of tilt recognition, the Intuos4 pen simulates like never before the natural feel and accuracy of working with traditional brushes, pens, and markers. In the box - Intuos4 medium pen tablet Intuos4 Grip Pen Intuos4 mouse Pen stand Ten replacement nibs (five standard nibs, one flex nib, one stroke nib, and three hard felt nibs) Nib extractor 2.5m (8.20 ft.) USB cable Quick Start Guide Installation CD (includes tablet driver software and electronic user manual) System Requirements - Windows XP SP2/Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.8+ Color display Powered USB port CD/DVD drive Unit Dimensions - 14.6 x 10.0 x 0.5 in; Weight - 2.2 lb.
I completely agree that anything so cannot accelerate and facilitate work of the artist, the professional photographer or the designer as this ingenious production. You can connect the device to the computer and easy draw that is necessary for you, your drawing to be displayed on the computer at once.

Summary description from manufacturer of Wacom Intuos4 Medium Pen Tablet

"With a new design and features inspired by members of the professional creative community, Intuos4 redefines the pen tablet experience. Featuring Wacom’s new pen tip sensor technology and 2,048 levels of pen pressure sensitivity, the Intuos4 pen captures the most subtle nuances of pressure, allowing you to dynamically adjust exposure, brush size, opacity and more. User-defined Express Keys activate frequently used shortcuts and modifiers, while the accompanying, illuminated Express Key displays on the medium, large and extra large models, provide a constant reminder of each key’s function. The finger-sensitive Touch Ring quickly controls up to 4 different functions such as canvas rotation, zoom, scroll, brush size and more."
As to the product characteristic so it Quickly and professionally edit photos and create the digital artworks, the new technology of the gauge of a tip of the handle lowers force of activation and has grasped each nuance of pressure of the handle, user-defined Express Keys and multi function Touch Ring put time saving shortcuts, modifiers, scrolling, zooming, and more at your fingertips.
The medium Intuos4 tablet is the most popular and versatile choice among creative professionals. With 48.5 square inches of working area, this tablet provides ample workspace for most tablet users. The medium size is built with eight Express Keys and illuminated Express Key displays that provide easy reference to your assigned functions.
Like all Intuos4 tablets, the Intuos4 medium features Wacom new tip sensor technology to deliver an even finer level of control. You can initiate pen pressure control with only a single gram of pressure and a feather-light touch. With 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and 60 degrees of tilt recognition, the Intuos4 pen simulates like never before the natural feel and accuracy of working with traditional brushes, pens, and markers.
Professional photographers, designers and artists agree: Intuos4 pen tablets speed production time for photo editing, design and art creation. When working with digital assets, there isn't a more natural tool than a pen for increased comfort and control.
Intuos4 redefines the Intuos pen tablet experience, thanks to a new design and new features inspired by members of our professional creative community.

What's in the Box?

Intuos4 medium pen tablet, Intuos4 Grip Pen, Intuos4 mouse, pen stand, ten replacement nibs (five standard nibs, one flex nib, one stroke nib, and three hard felt nibs), nib extractor, 2.5m USB cable, Quick Start Guide, installation CD (includes tablet driver software and electronic user manual).
First of all, I should tell that the unique tablet which has been created before, is Wacom Intuos3, thus, I will spend the comparisons, between Intuos3 and Intuos4.
I think that Intuos4 - definitely worthy modernization from Intuos3 (or any other tablets in general).
Intuos4, instead of grey metal kind Intuos3, accepts the cool black matte end with high shine black group of the party. It is many thinner than intuos3, much lower profile, and 16:9 an image format.
Since most of us have widescreen monitors, I think it is very thoughtful of Wacom to update the aspect ratio of the Intuos4, but be warned though; if you use a 4:3 monitor, you might experience problems with drawing ratios since the 16:9 active area will be ' squeezed ' to fit into a 4:3 layout; what this means is that if you draw a tilted line on the tablet, the line will appear to be squeezed horizontally and stretched vertically on the 4:3 monitor. Of course, you can manually limit the active area in the Wacom configuration software, but that would force you to sacrifice a portion of working area, so take this into consideration when purchasing this tablet.
The biggest change of design from Intuos3 - an arrangement express keys. Because of dexterous design Wacom has placed all keys on one party of a tablet, thus is more keys accessible to users. That I think is extremely thoughtful of Wacom, that for the Small tablet, it went with 2 tables USB, one inclined upwards and another downwards to please and intended for the left hand and the configuration intended for the right hand. Note, however, that Small version Intuos4 does not have display OLED to the right of express keys, and instead of 8, you only receive 6 keys (but it more than enough for me).

The problem which I have with express keys, consists that in Intuos3, keys are generated in another way so that the site of a certain key was very easy to define, without having necessity constantly to look downwards; however, for intuos4 as all keys are generated precisely same, it is extremely easy, make active a wrong key... It in particular takes place with Small Intuos4 as there is no visual sign concerning each key is appointed to what function, doing difficult navigation. However, I think that it should not be the most part of a problem after some time of reception of use to (I only had it during the day).
The new improved surface of a tablet, probably, as close as you can reach with real experience of the Handle on a paper with a digital tablet. Surface Intuos3's is ' extremely slippery ', and its attraction feels like plastic on plastic; however, surface Intuos4's forces me to feel really desire to involve a paper with almost fine travel and draught. Various feathers offer different levels of a friction, modeling various environments. This concept has been undertaken in Intuos3, but I think that Intuos4 have really improved the formula, doing tablet attraction feels almost the same as moving ahead a paper.
I usually do not speak about the handle stand, but the stand of the handle for Intuos4 - definitely worthy mention. High shine the black end, the handle stand can be bent opened, showing branch of storage of a feather with cracks to keep 10 additional feathers (and a feather ex-tractor). I was in the habit to waste a trace of the feathers of the handle all time, but it is no more, thus, prestigiousness to Wacom for their attention to details.
The tablet goes with a large quantity of software (Photoshop Elements, the Notebook, etc.) What can I tell, pro this production? Ambidextrous design, more express keys, great drawing surface, feels like pen-on-paper, thinner lighter than Intuos3, improved customization software, many useful functions, improved grip pen, comfortable to use, 10 replacement nibs (should last 2-5 years), innovating pen holder serves as a storage for replacement nibs, color rings to give the grip pen a different feel, tons of extra software, great value.
Certainly, I can result to you some contra. For example: rice, only 16:9 is offered, may not be the best choice if you prefer the smooth drawing surface of Intuos3, a bit too big for a small tablet (compared to Intuos3 Small), high gloss side panel is a fingerprint magnet and The rubber grip on the pen attracts dust and lint.
All in all, Intuos4 boasts many notable upgrades from the previous Intuos3 line. If you have been holding off for an Intuos3, then this is perhaps the time for you to finally jump on the Intuos boat. Due to the size limitations, the Small Intuos4 lacks a few features available in the other models of the Intuos4 line (notably the OLED display, dual USB ports, etc.), but the price difference between the Small and the Medium tablets does not seem to justify for the price jump (especially since I don't have the space to accommodate for a medium tablet).