PentelOrenznero 0.5mm Mechanical Pencil with Auto Lead Feed Feature

With ain stein 2b lead, this thing is like writing with a fine tipped pen for me! The main features that may attract someone to this pencil is the fact you do not have to constantly click to bring out more lead and that because you do not need to extend the lead past the tip preventing you from snapping the lead while writing. Having a retractable tip also makes it pocket friendly.Ergonomically, it is probably one of the most comfortable pencils I have used that does not have a rubber grip and even better than some of those. It is also textured that ensures a fantastic grip regardless if my hands are dry or not.One minor quirk is that the mechanism has a slight rattle. I fixed this by taking the mechanism out of the body and putting a little wrap of tape to cushion the mechanism. Not sure if that is consistent across all models but if it is the case for you, that is a little fix.If they were to make some models that have different bright colors, I would most certainly pick one of those up!

I have seen a lot of debates on this pencil online, some praise it, while others talk about how it has a lot of problems. I bought it for myself to see for myself. I think this is an amazing pencil, it has a nice feel of quality good plastic, and is neat for drawing but mostly for writing. The lead is very close to the sleeve, so it looks like it is not out but it is. do not use too hard of pressure or the sleeve may rip the paper, just use gentle pressure using the weight of the pencil.I highly recommend this pencil, and you should get it if you have been considering it.

Great pencil for me as it hits the most “pluses” of my needs: auto advance, retractable tip, comfortable (not the most). I use 4B lead with it and for the most part, the auto advance will keep up. I may need to click once every paragraph or so, which I don’t mind. With harder leads it works just fine.Some cons for me:Not the most comfy to write with, but useable. The Staedtler 925 and rotring 600/800 were better. An auto-advance version of those would have beaten this one. The most comfortable pencil for me is a smooth, round wooden pencil (Musgrave News 600 being my favorite). The Staedtler 925 was close and its mild knurling felt good. The Rotrings barrels were a bit small for my large hands, but still nice to write withThe eraser cap sticks a bit somewhat every time you put it back on, causing the lead to advance. Just an annoyance. I just use it sans the cap

When I first saw these pens for sale I had no idea that they had an automatic lead advance system until I saw it in another customer's review.Firstly I am not a real artist, real artists put in the work to get better.I buy gear and wonder why I'm not getting better. /sI now own 3 of these pens, the 0.2mm, the 0.3mm, and now the 0.5mm.Using a 0.2mm pencil with, and without, the auto lead advance system could almost be considered revolutionary or even necessary.If your doing lots of quick linework, or shading, you could have to spend almost as much time advancing the lead as drawing.If you're one that holds you pencil at a tilt, and if you change pencil rotation when you advance the lead, having the lead come down in a different rotation(read as line width and darkness) gets very noticeable. Since the 0.2mm wears much faster and is such a thin line(more frequent and more noticeable) the advance feature means the pencil can sit in your hand without loosening your grip until you (physically) can't let go of it.I'm fairly light handed, and don't have problems drawing with 0.3/.35mm leads extended well past their sleeves. To me, 0.5mm+ lead sized wearsso slow that in this size the auto-advance system might be more of a gimmick outside of the 0.2 and 0.3mm models. If you find yourself breaking 0.5mm lead in pencils, the standard orenz models have self-retracting sleeve, but without the advance feature. If you're not drawing and shading, you may not extended lead often enough to see the auto-advance benefit.However, if you like shading with super fine pencils, you never have to change your grip. Meaning if you like to keep your lead at your desired shading angle, or you like to spin your pencil to chase your ever wearing sharp edge, you always know where it is!I have 2 0.5mm pencils I find really pleasing to hold, Rotring and Staedlater,but my issue was when I switched to colored leads:Uni makes some nano Dia colored leads that are great for layout drawing layers(whatever you call that step you use non-photo blue pencils for). I find the lavender a very pleasing color, easy to see where you still need to go over with graphite and ink, while still getting dark enough lines to get good details.However the first case of leads I got were so soft that they disappeared faster than I expected while shading, the sleeves would rub, and I would get a white line from a crease the sleeve left. Both of my pencils had fixed sleeves. I either had to advance the lead often to avoid the sleeve, or extend the lead way out to give me a couple more strokes without having to continually assault the clicker. But the lead is soft enough it becomes easy to break when extended that far.With each additional white line in my shading, I thought "This is annoying, why are you doing this to yourself".Do I decide to to get a full sized color pencil that matches the color shade?No! I can't let my art teacher win with "use the right tool for the task, start big then go small".How about shading with graphite since it's practically made to shade?No, I want to, no, I need to collect all the nero zeros, and get 5 more packs of those leads while I'm at it.(which I imagine is the single most expensive way to get the same result as one colored pencil)TLDR: It's a great pencil. Pentel also makes probably the best brush pens. The 0.5mm is probably only worth it for people using it with soft leads doing detail shading. The 0.2mm is incredible with itsn ablity to do a page of fine line sketching without touching the advance.Side note: You can still get creases in your page from the sleeve if you hold it at too low of an angle to the page(pretty extreme angles though)Not the pens fault, definitely physics fault.Or if the leads you bought were super soft, but the replacements are super hard, or the same peice of lead goes from soft to hard(not the pens fault, just making excuses so I don't have to say it's my fault).

I love needlessly fussy Japanese mechanical pencils. So we'll balanced and precise... This doesn't disappoint. It's not my fave, mostly for eraser access, but it's cool. Like the black casing. Feels good in my hand & lays down graphite well without breaking the lead.

The auto lead feed on this pencil is a game-changer for note-taking and sketching—no more frequent clicks. It’s sleek, well-balanced, and writes smoothly. A high-performance tool with an elegant design.

I was under the impression this was metal and not an epoxy mixture. While it certainly is a pencil worth the money, I did not personally want this product. Thankfully I gave it to my younger brother who has been in need of some nice writing utensils.