p.3 #4 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
I use these gloves, they are SO good. Ideally you want to feel your camera with your bare hands so in between shooting you can have a fingerless glove and then when you aren't shooting you can use it as a mitten. Really is ideal, i used mine in Budapest recently in sub-zero conditions, was really comfortable.
p.3 #5 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
The gloves that ericdol mentioned look like winners
Anybody know how to purchase a pair in the US
A google search pulls up all UK retailers Lowe Alpine Convert Mitten Glove
Thanks.
p.3 #8 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
peteygas wrote:
hasn't anyone tried the Aquatech sensory gloves . I would like to hear what they have found
got a set for Christmas
will post what i think about them after some use, just playing with them they are a great weight(light but still substantial enough seemingly) and the neoprene fingertip hole is nice
p.3 #10 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
Variation of the above. Flip back mittens extra large with hunters knit gloves underneath. These knit gloves have a grippy surface on the palm side. Purfect.
You do have to remember to shut the flaps. I was so busy shooting in -10 F with wind blowing off the frozen Mississippi that I left them open for a long period. I suffered excruciating pain for 1/2 hour before I could begin to move my fingers again!
p.3 #12 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
chez wrote:
The problem with fingerless gloves is that your exposed skin touches the camera quickly zapping any warmth out of your fingers. You need some barrier between your fingers and the camera. I use a layered system where a thin pair of fleece gloves are used when I operate the camera and a much thicker mitt is used over the thin fleece glove when not operating the camera. I found this layered approach works much better than those gloves that have exposed fingers.
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That being the case, why not one of those mitten types that flip open to expose fingerless gloves?
p.3 #13 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
I also subscribe to the glove within a glove concept like GeneO. I use a pair of extremely heavy duty mittens with a thin glove liner inside. I have used this combo snowboarding, and when I was ready to shoot, just took off the outer gloves that were keeping my hands warm, and still had a thin liner so I wasn't touching bare camera or snow. However, this set up is used more for sporadic shooting, where the primary focus was snowboarding and the primary glove was thoroughly insulated. The glove liner was used only intermittently. Depending on how much you are shooting, this set-up may not work for you. If you are going to be logging alot of hiking/outdoor time with points along the way to capture the scenery, then the primary glove should be for warmth. However, if you are looking at constant shooting with cold exposure (the primary focus being photography with periods of hand warming), then perhaps a set-up like GeneO suggested would be better.
p.3 #14 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
sjms wrote:
me, i just ordred up a black diamond stormweight glove. its Gore windstopper and has a nice gripping surface with reasonable dexterity.
Bought a pair of these on clearance. Not as warm as I thought they'd be. The gripping surface is a little too bulky/dense at the tips so they're not as sensitive as I'd like.
I think if you're going to be outside for extended periods, you need some kind of glove w/ pockets for those little hotties handwarmers (they get up to 135F so they don't recommend putting them directly against your skin)...
p.3 #15 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
My main gloves are thin leather ones insulated with cashmere. I use glove liners when it gets really cold. I can control most everything with the two one. If I need, I'll take the gloves off for finer control, and the thin liners help protect against the wind.
Really cold was this morning. Woke up to -20F. We set a new record for -28F overnight. It's currently a balmy -11F.
p.3 #16 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
Not to beat the figurative dead horse, but just picked up a pair of Mountain HardWear Power Stretch gloves for my upcoming trip to Pea Island NWR. They're pretty warm for being a thin style. Nice seamless fingertips.
Lucked out with these because when I went to REI the glove rack was pretty empty from the recent cold stap across the U.S.
p.3 #17 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
Used the sensory gloves for some landscape the other day, very nice first try.
Shooting hockey Friday, most interested to see how they do for this application as its the biggest one i envision for them...
I just got a pair of these and really like them. Warm, but good flexibility.
I also got a pair of the swany mittens mentioned earlier in this post - I hate the liner glove that is inside, but the glove seems good so I think I will cut out the liners and use a thin set of foxgloves or under armour liners. I like that they zipper open so you can get your fingers out. These will go to Antarctica next October when we should expect -10 degree weather.
p.3 #20 · Good gloves for shooting in cold weather ????
Hi All,
FWIW, I've been working outdoors for better than the past 30 years and in the dead of winter I go with a pair of wrist-covering deerskin fingerless (half-finger) gloves for doing delicate work. When I need to warm them up I slide em' (gloves, and all) into a pair of heavy (fingered) ski gloves. If I've got to be doing extended periods of delicate work I've found that putting on a pair of latex doctor gloves under the fingerless gloves are really effective for retaining heat...in fact, when it's not too cold this combo (latex+fingerless) will actually make my hands sweat!
