Pentel Orenznero 0.5mm Mechanical Pencil with Auto Lead Feed Feature

This Pentel Orenz AT Dual Grip pencil is, without a doubt, one of the best mechanical pencils I have ever used. It feels so solid and comfortable in the hand that after buying one for myself, I immediately purchased a second one for my son. The build quality is immediately noticeable. The full metal body gives it a satisfying weight that I really enjoy in a pencil, making it feel substantial and balanced. The textured grip is another highlight; it's incredibly comfortable and doesn't cause any irritation or fatigue, even during long writing sessions. What really sets the Orenz AT apart is its automatic lead feeding system. The lead advances itself as you write, so you never have to stop and click. This has been a game-changer for my son, who primarily uses print writing and benefits greatly from the continuous, uninterrupted workflow. A quick tip: to get the best performance out of this pencil, I highly recommend pairing it with high-quality lead. The mechanism is precise, and good lead makes the experience even smoother. I will absolutely be buying more of these in the future. It's the perfect gift for anyone in your life who truly values a great writing instrument. Highly recommended!

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 with The 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. /s I 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 wears so 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).

Better than advertised. The auto lead feed keeps just the right length of lead available so I can now use 0.5mm lead without worrying about breaking. The pencil came in Japanese packaging, which made reding instructions a bit impossible, something that was easy enough to del with by visiting Pentel's website. If you have need for a pencil, this is the one to get!

This pencil has a great look and feel, nice weight, and I think will last for a long time. The only-one-click gimmick is kind of meh—I don’t like the feeling of the metal lead sleeve scraping against the paper. So I’m just using it like a normal mechanical pencil and it’s great for that.

Solid construction, nice well balanced heft, metal lower hexagonal barrel, the grip ridges on the metal are functional and aesthetic. The thing I like best about this pencil is that the metal tip is retractable yet the mechanism feels solid when in use. Feels completely rigid with zero play, as opposed to most kurotogas. I dont use/like the auto advance feature too much because of the metal-scratching-on-paper feeling that it induces. I use the pencil with 2B mitsubishi nano-dia lead and it works great. The pencil sees use every day.

I really like how it feels in your hand. Its a solid quality pencil. It always works well.

I’ve used a lot of mechanical pencils that auto-advance the lead, but this one is by far the best. The lead comes out perfectly as I write — no clicking needed, and no interruptions. What really stands out is how sturdy and solid it feels. There's zero wobble between the lead and the barrel, so it honestly feels like writing with a high-end traditional pencil. The grip and weight balance are also spot on — not too light, not too heavy, with a clean metal-like feel. If you want a mechanical pencil that’s smooth, steady, and truly seamless, this is it.