Which mouse?

My mouse is on the road out I think. Im making selections in PS and half way round its losing the signal. Its a
Microsoft sidewinder. Served me well over the last 6yrs or so.

What mouse do you guys use?

Anyone like recommend one? Budget about £40 max. Doesn't have to be wireless, I don't mind it wired. I remember wired ones having greater input accuracy. Have things moved on or is that still the case today?

Heya,

Very personal thing, mice.

I prefer a wired mouse that you can turn down the acceleration on, so that your movements are precise and smooth, and I prefer the added option to put weights into the mouse so that it's heavy, which helps you to make smooth movements. So I use an old Logitech G5 with maximum weights installed, and the acceleration turned to minimum, on a Kabuto surface material. It's butter smooth, heavy, and doesn't wobble.

So for me, since this is discontinued, I'd go for a Logitech G502 since it's essentially the same thing, if I had to re-buy.

Very best,

Thanks. That is true they are a very personal thing. Googled the 502 a bit. Seems nice yeah. And a tad over budget here still though. And not daft at all on the blue (another personal aspect coming in to it ) but each to their own.

The Kabuto surface material is new to me too. Il look into that but I am supposed to be saving for a Intuos as well!

Thanks

cheap logitech wireless on an old piece of 13x19 piece of ink jet paper that i had taped down to this table for a shoot.

in other words, the exact opposite of MalVeaux LOL

with a couple of batteries in it, it is pretty heavy though, and not having a cord makes it smooth.

logitech performance mx.

it just works for me. it's probably the 3rd similar version I've had in the past 8-10 years. I've now had it for 3 or more years.

when it invariably expires, I'll research - hopefully - a current similar rodent.

meanwhile, it works for me.

like others have said - this is very subjective.

Dale

ps - just looked - still for sale <$60 amascam - amazing.

I have a ten year old Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse, but I don't use the mouse in LR/PS for editing. I have an old Trust digitising pen tablet that I use for editing work. The one I have I got from PC world and was about £50. I have had one of these trust tablets for about 20 years, the one I have now is I think number three. I don't know what they have these days though. Although cheap they have worked as well as any Wacom tablet I have tried. Only issue is not supported on OSX.

Alan

Good mousing is about 20% mouse and 80% mouse pad. I use low end Logitech wireless on a high end Razer pad. With teflon tape on the mouse feet. Higher end mice don't add anything to precision. They just hang on more buttons until the mouse looks like it belongs on a SWAT team.

Ultra smooth, very precise. I can clone the eyes on a gnat at 200%

I have owned:
Proteus G502 (Current)
G500 (Current)
G400
Trackball M570
MX1100 (Came in kit with WAVE Keyboard)
G9x

Of all the mice I used from Logitech, my favorite has to be the G500. Aside from that, I used my friend's Logitech Performance MX mouse and that is quite possibly one of the most comfortable mice I have ever used. It fit the hand just nice but I personally couldn't justify spending that kind of money on a mouse. Although I just looked up the MX Master and it is just calling my name right now because of this thread...

I have given up on Logitech wireless mice.

In my experience, previous high end models worked perfectly but after around two years they started losing signal. New batteries didn't help. 'Click and drag' became a nightmare. Couldn't keep justifying the price (in my case).

Have gone back to wired mice.

Cheers.

MalVeauX wrote in post #18114536
I prefer a wired mouse that you can turn down the acceleration on, so that your movements are precise and smooth, and I prefer the added option to put weights into the mouse so that it's heavy, which helps you to make smooth movements. So I use an old Logitech G5 with maximum weights installed, and the acceleration turned to minimum, on a Kabuto surface material. It's butter smooth, heavy, and doesn't wobble.

I had a G5 as well, shame that it started bugging out a few years ago, otherwise it worked well for like 6 years. I'm currently using some throwaway $5 mouse in the mean time, but it's okay because I mostly use a Wacom tablet for everything anyway. If I had to buy a new one today it would probably be the new Logitech G Pro, since it's pretty much a minimalist G502 or slightly bigger G302, which is what I wanted for a while now.

twists n turns wrote in post #18114532
My mouse is on the road out I think. Im making selections in PS and half way round its losing the signal. Its a
Microsoft sidewinder. Served me well over the last 6yrs or so.

What mouse do you guys use?

Anyone like recommend one? Budget about £40 max. Doesn't have to be wireless, I don't mind it wired. I remember wired ones having greater input accuracy. Have things moved on or is that still the case today?

Generally you'll want any nice optical mouse, as those have the fewest "issues" with precise motion; like acceleration, angle-snapping, and jitter. This will make drawing selections much easier in Photoshop and such.

As far as accuracy goes, the G900 is said to be the best in this regard, but it's absurdly expensive and the charge lasts for only a few hours, which is the price for driving a high-precision optical sensor. Nearly every other wireless mouse will use lasers and use a whole host of techniques to minimize battery drain, which doesn't reflect well on performance.

Mice are like wives...we each choose for our own individual reasons. Just as I would not recommend a wife for you, I would not try to recommend a mouse either.

I'm using a Logitech wireless MS10 full-size mouse. No problems.

I love my inexpensive Gamdias Apollo gaming mouse and I don't even game. Probably the best mouse I ever owned.

If you are using PS you might want to consider getting a mouse that lets you record keyboard shortcuts/macros to the mouse buttons. I am using a Logitech G602 and have bound "layer visibility", "Undo", "Redo" and a couple of others to my mouse buttons. Once you get used to using the shortcuts on the mouse it's hard to imagine not using a mouse that lets you do that.

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I haven't found mice to matter much. I just use whatever came with the computer.

The computer I bought in 2008 came with a corded mouse. The computer I got last year came with a wireless mouse.

I prefer the corded mouse, but misplaced it or something, so I use the cordless one. Pain in the arse, because it runs on batteries and they die every couple of weeks.

As far as what the mouse is placed on, I haven't found that to matter - they work on any surface. If I'm lying in bed watching Netflix, I just move the mouse across the part of the bed I'm not lying on; even on the loosely-fitting sheet it works good. If I'm sitting at my desk, then the wood surface of the desk is perfect for the mouse to be on. When I'm staying at my friend's place (housesitting), then I set my computer up on the island in his kitchen, and the surface of the island is coarse 12" by 12" grouted ceramic tiles. The mouse works great on the tiles, just like it does anywhere else. I've never understood the need for a mouse pad - in my experience they don't improve performance"at all. The mice just work, and work without any problems, no matter what surface they are on.

I don't like the hassle of having to keep charged batteries in my wireless mouse, but I don't feel like rooting around the house trying to find the corded one, so unless the corded mouse just "turns up" I'll probably be stuck using the cordless one for a while. At least I still have my corded keyboard - it would suck to have to use the cordless one (more batteries).


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