  We present results for the photon emission rate determined from the
transverse channel vector correlator at fixed spatial momentum using two
flavors of dynamical Wilson fermions at $T\sim$250 MeV. We estimate the
transverse channel spectral function using the continuum extrapolated
correlator by applying various fit ans\"atze with a smooth matching to the NLO
perturbative result. We confront our estimate based on this channel with the
latest results of our collaboration based on the difference of the transverse
and longitudinal channels.
