TK's Emisar D4V2 review

I use Imgur, I don’t have an account.

Good to know.

Even if you do have an account, Imgur is totally free.

I started with 5000k, then to 4500k and 4000k, then into 4500k and 4000k HI CRI and now I’m into 2700k to 3000k HI CRI for night time use, which matches interior lighting.

Mine arrived to the UK in a week. That’s a new record.

Love the build quality and the aux LED colours!

Nice!

But wait a minute. It was said that the switch was unchanged, and all I do is looking at pictures (but that is a very BLF thing to base opinions on :smiley: ), but I think that I notice that the switch has changed, it seems to sit a bit deeper. Is this really so and does it matter as far as pocket activation is concerned?

Here’s a pic from TK’s review of the D4 last year and one of the pics of the D4V2 above:

Edit: looking at those pictures again, and I do not see that much difference after all, carry on :person_facepalming:

No, it protrudes from the head by 1-2mm.

Did you get the regular or the faster shipping? I’m also from the UK and I purchased one the day it became available, so I’m excited at the possibility that it might be arriving any time soon.

Regular I think! Ask Hank for tracking.

thanks for the pictures hcanning! will tide me over for a while.

Yeah thanks for the pictures. Here’s hoping mine will be delivered soon too!

Edit: Mine just arrived!

I’ll try to make some time to get my video equipment set up tonight.

Edit: Here’s a quick video of the Aux that I posted on Reddit. Not great quality, but I was excited okay?

I got a laugh out of “not great quality.”

There’s no camera shake, it’s reasonably exposed, reasonably color balanced, and it’s reasonably framed.

If even 5% of what gets posted online were that good, it would be a massive improvement over the status quo.

Thanks for taking the time to make that clip.

quick video? As in 3 seconds? Just a teaser, looking forward to you doing MORE. Thank you!

It’s supposed to loop. :smiley:

I’ll set up my proper camera and try to get something YouTube worthy.

I received mine. Great light, but the tint is absolute crap for 3000k sst20. Yellow, not rosy and I have a lot of 3000k sst20 lights to compare with.

To bad, did not want to mod this one.

Thats unfortunate. I am going to order one but am waiting to see feedback on how the 3/4000k sst20 leds perform.

Could be I am unlucky, but this is not the tint I am used to.

Maybe a Lee minus green filter can save me. Don’t want to reflow this aux led mcpcb.

BTW. I absolutely LOVE that you can fix the single click mode level now.

What? Yes its yellow but I find the tint to be excellent. Not as nice as a more rosy warm Cree LED but the higher CRI makes it much better for me. And you really have to directly compare it to notice the difference in tint. Unlike the red color objects that really pops-up with the better CRI.
It goes very well with the ‘’chinese golden dragon’’ body color.

I have the same LEDs in the D4S and there is more yellow while the D4v2 is more orange with much less green tint. (maybe its from the AR coating or a different tint bin)

To my eyes the green tint is just barely noticeable, even on a white wall. Unless you directly compare them.

This light is almost perfect and its fun to play with the different modes and multicolor LEDs.