Wacom’s Drool-Worthy 4K Drawing Tablet Includes a Pen With Adjustable Weight and Balance

For artistic sorts depending on a drawing pill for illustrating, picture enhancing, or 3D modelling, the brand new Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 goes to be a onerous improve to cross up. With dramatically thinner bezels, it now seems to be like an everyday outdated pc monitor—albeit one you need to use with a redesigned stylus that provides intensive customizability with regards to buttons, weight, and steadiness.

The Cintiq Pro line is the place you’ll discover all of Wacom’s greatest options, and that’s mirrored within the worth. The new Cintiq Pro 27 is available in at $3,500, which doesn’t embrace the price of the now required stand (Wacom has eliminated the retractable help legs on the again of the pill that enable prior fashions to sit down angled on a desk). Wacom does promote a $500 adjustable stand for the brand new Cintiq Pro 27, however consumers are additionally capable of seize a third-party resolution due to a normal VESA 100 mount on the again.

To those that contemplate a $100 mouse a splurge, spending that a lot cash on a drawing pill is meaningless. But for artists pushing pixels all day, the Wacom expertise is unrivalled, and supplies a extra pure solution to creatively work together with a pc. Like earlier iterations of the Cintiq Pro, the brand new 27-inch mannequin pushes 4K resolutions (3840 x 2160) with a 10-bit LCD panel able to displaying 1.07 billion colours, 99% of the Adobe RGB commonplace, and 98% of the DCI-P3 commonplace (Digital Cinema Initiatives, Protocol 3) utilized by the movie business. So whereas business professionals most likely received’t wish to use it for colour crucial duties like grading, it is going to nonetheless give artists an correct portrayal of colours and pores and skin tones.

The new Cintiq Pro 27’s most blatant improve is the display screen’s dramatically decreased bezels. Wacom has by no means shied away from bezels up to now, as they supply actual property for shortcut buttons and a spot for artists to securely grip the pill with out protecting the display screen. As a consequence, regardless of together with a 27-inch display screen, the brand new Cintiq Pro 27 is definitely smaller than the Cintiq Pro 24 (with a 24-inch display screen), whereas weighing roughly precisely the identical. To be actual, the Cintiq Pro 27 weighs 15.9 kilos, in comparison with the 15.8 pound Cintiq Pro 24.

That doesn’t imply that shortcut buttons have been eradicated—they’re simply all positioned on the again now and built-in right into a pair of grips on both aspect that make it simpler for artists to carry and manipulate the pill whereas they work. Each grip has 4 buttons, offering eight in whole that artists can customise utilizing Wacom’s bundled software program.

Wacom is likely to be greatest recognized for its stylus expertise that, in contrast to Apple Pencils, doesn’t require a battery within the stylus or any charging. Alongside the brand new Cintiq Pro 27, the corporate can also be introducing its new Pro Pen 3, which will be customized assembled from interchangeable elements that change the thickness, weight, steadiness, and even the variety of buttons on the stylus, which can now be maxed out to a few. Wacom guarantees the brand new Pro Pen 3 additionally contains “enhanced tilt recognition” and might detect 8,192 totally different ranges of distinct stress on its tip.

The Cintiq Pro 27 is available starting today from Wacom’s web site. The new Pro Pen 3, which might be suitable with older Cintiq Pro and Intuos Pro tablets pending patches, will also be bought by itself for $130.