Which Mouse is best for Digitizing?

Robert Young's picture

What type of mouse do you use for digitizing? 2 button, 3 button, wheel, stylus, etc? Wireless or connected?

Once we had an employee use a gaming hand and he programmed it for the digitizing shortcuts that worked best for him. What do you use?

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I'm doing my digitizing with just a common simple logitech mouse, so, I kinda curious with the gaming hand Robert talking about, and how do you guys digitizing with that trackball?? LoL

Hi,

I have personally used TrackBall mice since for ever and only used them for graphic design, digitizing and anything in between.

Logitech has several models available (wired and wireless) with more or less buttons.

If not a wacom I would suggest a trackball... but not one of those wimpy ones that these guys are talking about.

Kensington Experert Mouse

"you don't need a hook for the worms to dance."

Robert Young's picture

Gilligan.. that looks different. Do you have experience with this ? So far my favorite is actually a Gaming Hand... like a mechanical glove thing... goes down your fingers and you just program each part to whatever your common functions or combo of functions are. Reminds me of the movie Minority Report.... I cannot wait until digitizing is done like that... lol

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Robert... I have used this thing since it's "first version" (might not really have been first, but it was serial/ps2)

I own three of them... I'd prefer this in gaming myself... never have to really pick your hand up like with a mouse... you can do 360's all day long with the flick of the ball.

Granted, I don't do any gaming... but I love the precision of the large ball (it's about the size of a snooker ball) and the ability to place it and let it go where you want it THEN click is great as opposed to possibly moving off your target pixel when clicking.

"you don't need a hook for the worms to dance."

Well, you might have an issue there... maybe they can offer a heavier ball. ;)

The software that comes with it is very nice too... you can program acceleration curves as well as the buttons have to behave differently based on which application you are using.

Example, in my internet browser I have the upper left button to go back and the upper right to go forward. In Photoshop though I have the upper left button to be "edit undo".

Small things but they become habits real quick.

"you don't need a hook for the worms to dance."