It’s necessary to remove the switch cover retaining ring first, by carefully prying it up with an X-Acto blade or similar, rotating it around the edge to gently pop it up.
After months of deciding I finally wanted to get a D4, but I’m only interested in the green color, and just my luck now it looks like the green is no longer available, it’s not showing as a color option anymore for the D4 anywhere. :rage:
It’s described as chalky because it objectively feels chalky. My D1S has the roughest finish by far of any light I own. Whether or not you like a chalky finish is a separate issue.
I probly won’t like a chalky finish , I’m glad I havnt got any lights with a chalky finish ,
I’ve got a D1 & a D4 in shiny black & ive got a D1s in Matt black & I like em all ,I especially like the feel of the Matt black grippy D1s.
Reading some of the recent posts apparently it’s quite subjective…
Some people find it to be chalky feeling and hate it, others don’t find it chalky and love it.
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Since there’s no knurling I kind of like the analogy of it feeling like “stone” , something different than the ordinary.