Aputure AL-M9 Amaran Pocket-Sized Daylight-Balanced LED Light

Key Features

  • 5500K ± 200K
  • 9-Step Brightness Adjustment
  • Integrated Lithium-Ion Polymer Battery
  • 1.75-Hour Runtime at Max Brightness

The AL-M9 Amaran Pocket-Sized Daylight-Balanced LED Light from Aputure is an extremely portable yet surprisingly bright battery-powered LED fixture. Easily fitting in your pocket, the fixture is daylight balanced and sports a color temperature of 5500K with a CRI and TLCI rating of over 95. It includes a removable sheet of diffusion and 9 steps of dimming.

The Amaran integrates an 1800mAh lithium polymer battery with a nearly 2-hour runtime at full brightness when fully charged. You can charge the fixture using the included USB charging cable and a readily available USB charger (not included). Included with the fixture are magnetically attached diffusion, CTO, and CTB filters. The light slips into an adapter, so you can mount it to the cold shoe or threaded female 1/4″-20 accessory port of your camera.

1.75 hours of battery life at maximum brightness when fully charged
13 hours of battery life at minimum brightness when fully charged
An integrated 1800mAh lithium polymer battery that charges from virtually any 5V USB charger
Dimmable in 9 steps
Magnetically attached diffusion filter
CTO filter to lower the color temperature of the light output to approximately 3400K
CTB filter to raise the color temperature of the light output to approximately 8800K
Mount adapter for mounting the light to an accessory cold shoe, or remove cold shoe foot and mount light to a 1/4″-20 accessory mounting point
Color Temperature 5500K ± 200K
Color Accuracy Standard CRI 95
TLCI 95
Integrated Battery
Capacity (mAh) 1800 mAh
Battery Chemistry Lithium-Ion
Operating Voltage 3.7 VDC
Power
DC Input Power 5 VDC at 1 A
Max Power Consumption 5 W
Power Source Integrated Battery
Physical
Mount Type 1/4″-20 Female Thread, Cold Shoe
Dimensions 3.4 x 2.2 x 0.4″  / 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.1 cm
Weight 4.9 oz / 140 g