Which cintiq should I buy?
Which cintiq should I buy?
This is a
question that has been on my mind for
quite a long time…
I felt that
after being with a wacom baboo all my student life… now that I’m a professional artist I should invest a
little bit on me for once. But I wasn’t on which one should I buy…
I read dozens of reviews, I research a lot, I watch video-reviews and I talked to friends to hear their different opinions, but in the end everybody would say “If you have the money buy the big one if you don’t buy the small one”. But that wasn’t enough… The money is not the only thing that matters… they should be different, feel different…. But how could I tell without trying it first?? But I didn’t have any access to any of them…
In the end, because I’m always moving to different cities and countries I ended up buying the small one – Cintiq 13 HD (not the companion one), because was smaller and easy so transport.
But for a
while (although I was very happy with my purchase) I still had the doubt in the
back of my mind – “Is it good enough? Should have I bought the 22 inches one
instead?” – Well my doubts finally ceased when I tried the 24 inches one at
work. In my personal opinion I believe that although the 24 inches is very good
because you have so many screen space to draw on… it’s just too big…. If you need
a keyboard to help sometimes… it’s not going to work… it’s too annoying…
too big and quite heavy to move around
till you find a good position for it…
And also, when I’m drawing, I tend to lean on the paper a little bit… I do the same with the cintiq. With the 24 inches cintiq I feel very tired working that way, my head is always too near the screen and because it is so big my eyes receive a huge amount of light all the time, which is not very healthy for them, making me tired all the time.
But, with the 13 hd cintiq I don’t have the same problem. Because it’s smaller, even if I lean on it, my eyes won’t be surrounded by the artificial light of the screen. And I never feel as tired.
So in my opinion the 13 inches is much better and much cheaper – 2 in 1!
Phew!
For a moment, I thought I should had bought the bigger one eheheh.
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