When I’m travelling, I’m often using the track pad on my laptop to edit my photos. It’s not such a problem when you’re just moving the exposure slider, but if you’re drawing or editing masks and selections, it’s far from easy or satisfactory. This is where Wacom’s Intuos pen and tablet come in handy, allowing me to use a natural hand and pen action to edit my photos. I love this approach.

True, it takes a little getting used to, but once you’re familiar with a pen and tablet, there’s really no better option. Or is there?

Underneath my Eizo monitor in my studio sits a Wacom Cintiq. It’s a large, heavy touch screen which lets me use my pen directly onto the photo. Wacom would suggest I don’t need the Eizo monitor, but as good as the Cintiq is, the Eizo has the edge when it comes to colour and tonal fidelity. In any event, I’m not about to lug a huge Cintiq around with me when I’m travelling. Perhaps it’s about time Wacom produced a smaller, lighter Cintiq? Well, it has.

The Wacom Movink is a pen and tablet, except the tablet is a high resolution monitor so you can use your pen directly on your image.

At around 4mm thick and roughly A4 in size, it weighs just 420 grams and slips into my laptop case with my computer. No, it’s not a computer like my old Wacom MobileStudio Pro (the new Macbook M-chip far outperforms it), but it is a touch screen which gives you the ability to draw with the pen or use it as a touch screen.

And while the Samsung-manufactured OLEG screen doesn’t match the Eizo either, it’s remarkably good with a 100,000:1 contrast ratio and up to 2K resolution. There’s a tough anti-glare covering and near-zero latency, meaning that as you draw or move the mouse, there’s no discernible lag.

Being both touch screen and pen enabled, you let your fingers zoom and rotate the screen image, plus use the customisable touch keys in the corners of the screen for a variety of purposes. I find these really useful for the times you don’t want to use the keyboard.

So, how do you use the Movink? You attach it via a USB cable, which explains the zero-latency, but the cable means you do need to be relatively close to your laptop (or computer) to use it. A super fast Bluetooth connection would be even better – maybe that’s the next model!

In the meantime, take a look at the current Wacom Movink 13. It has a RRP of $1299. (Disclosure: I am a Wacom Ambassador.)