l.g.c. wrote:
Where I live, if your fingers don't freeze to the camera when you touch it without gloves, it isn't cold yet.
If it isn't really cold, lots of things will work, even gimmicks. "Chillblockers"??
Wooooooo....... there's a chill out there!
Actually, I'm jealous, so just ignore me.
I'm with you on this. Wear a jacket with good handwarmer pockets and go without until the temp is below freezing. Using ANY gloves with a camera is a major hassle so don't wear them until you have to.
Lowepro sells gloves but they look like a regular knit glove with small rubber dots on the fingers and palm area for grip. The knit probably won't stop wind from chilling your hands.
JohnJ80 wrote:
I'm with you on this. Wear a jacket with good handwarmer pockets and go without until the temp is below freezing. Using ANY gloves with a camera is a major hassle so don't wear them until you have to.
J.
Edited by JohnJ80 on Dec 12, 2007 at 04:03 PM GMT
Well though we don't get Canada cold all the time it does dip often in winter. Last weekend was 25 deg at my 9am game and 39 at my 4pm game so cold enough. You hold on to a hunk of metal for an hour and a half with wind and it does not take long for figures to go numb. I had mechanics gloves on last weekend and by half way through the first 30 mins it was numb fingers. Half time I got them back to good with pockets and hand warmers but by the same time into the 2nd half cold again.
OK so the new gloves got hear and they are nice. Very comfortable and nice fitting. Very stylish and well built with a suede palm and fingers. There is about a 5mm dot on the pointer and thumb of each glove.
I put them on and the were very comfortable and easy to move fingers. I put the dots to the test and grabbed my 1DM3 to see how it drove. First touch felt good, solid feel in hand and when I touched the fire button it was right there. At first I thought well this does not feel any different than a normal glove. Then I tried touching the button with my next finger without the gel button. All of a sudden feel went away. What it does is take away the cushion or dead feel the padding of the glove makes and the solid dot pushes right against your skin. My only complaint or suggestion would maybe be a bigger dot? Pushing the smaller menu, ISO, drive, etc worked fine and feel was right there. These are made to use with an iPod or dial a cell phone with your gloves on and I think this will transfer over well to a camera.
Now the test will be warmth. The tag does say wind resistant which will help with wind chill, something the mechanics gloves did not. The insulation should be sufficient in cold weather to insulate from heat sink that is the lens and body in that cold temps. I will let you know how they stand up.
JohnJ80 wrote:
I'm with you on this. Wear a jacket with good handwarmer pockets and go without until the temp is below freezing. Using ANY gloves with a camera is a major hassle so don't wear them until you have to.
J.
Edited by JohnJ80 on Dec 12, 2007 at 04:03 PM GMT
Yep.
I'm from the UP of Michigan, and although I have the great lakes to buffer me a bit, temps still get to 0 to -11 on a cold day. In general I worry first about my hands not freezing up/getting terribly painful, and second about my ability to opperate all of the dials/buttons on my camera.
I have large, inuit aka eskomo looking leather mittens with soft fur on the inside (fake fur actually), and my "camera hand" mitten normally has a warming pack in it. I wear a thin walmart 1$ glove in my mittens so when I need to adjust something I take my hand out of my mitten, do whatever, then put it back in with the warming packet.
