Wickedfn4u, if you meant you're going to try the OR's Omni glove, they work well as liners too. when the weather gets cold or when it's snowing or raining, I use a pair of their Sonwline glove as shell, works pretty well for me. It's here -> http://www.altrec.com/shop/detail/30880/?sch=clk#photo
Anyone tried using some lined leather gloves? I'm thinking that they may offer the best compromise between grip, warmth, wind resistance and ability to control the camera. I'm not going to be working in anything less that -5C so they should be warm enough I'd have thought :S. Opinions?
I'm with Wickedfn4u
I knew there was a reason I lived on the Texas Gulf Coast! It's been in the upper 70s and 80s the last two weeks here!
Viva la warm winters!
It's been freezing around these here parts; Silicon Valley. Right now, 7:30AM and it's only 46 degrees F outside. Yikes!
How are those poor folks in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas (ice storms) and the rest handling it; holding up? No power for a week. Can't even fathom that kinda cold case scenario.
Yeah last year we had the major wind storm and lost power from 3-8 days and it was 30ish degrees. Upside was I am a Certified Arborist and trees were everywhere.
Yes, sad the unbelievable the damage to the trees as they take years and years (decades) to obtain their majestic form. But, if ya's gotta make a buck (I'm licensed Pest Control; Ag and Structural), Arborists and Ice Storms were meant for each other.
firewireguy wrote:
Anyone tried using some lined leather gloves? I'm thinking that they may offer the best compromise between grip, warmth, wind resistance and ability to control the camera. I'm not going to be working in anything less that -5C so they should be warm enough I'd have thought :S. Opinions?
It's what I use. Plenty warm enough (though it's not dropped below zero here yet. I doubt they'd cut it if you're up at first light in an Alaskan winter!) and you can use the shutter, 2 dials and joystick thingy but I needed to remove them for the smaller buttons on top/at the rear.
Wickedfn4u wrote:
Click on the link to go to Digital gloves. I right now use fingerless gloves and while that works great for touch, dang my digits get cold. I was wondering if anyone has tried them?
I use a pair of these http://www.danalco.com/
they don't keep your fingers really warm, but they don't let them get wet at all, so you can brush away snow allday and still be dry
Wickedfn4u wrote: if I have snow on my camera that I have to brush off... I quit. Those are cool though
I have the waterproof gloves and love them, but I have just been back on this site, and I now see that they do a pair of gloves called chillblockers which will keep you warm as well as dry, so I may have to see if I can get these in the UK, so thanks for bringing up this topic
Bob
well I have a 9am match today to shoot and um.. lets see its 25 deg right now and we should bump up to almost 39.
Yikes!