Winter Camera Gloves

[KimM]

I'm up in Canada so our winters are pretty cold. I use a pair of Heat Company mitts comprised of an internal polartec liner and an external zippered leather shell and exposable thumb, both inner and outer gloves have pockets for chemical pacs which really help keeping my hands warm. The liners and shells are separate ( not combined ) so I can use the liners independently in the late fall.

Another vote for these gloves...I have had mine for years and they have gone the distance in -20F with a wind. Boy it was colllld. I also use the rechargeable hand warmers for my pocket if there is a lull in action or I have had my fingers out for something. I have added extra wool to the zipper pocket and will put a chemical hand warmer in there.

 

[Roybon]

French alp here, can go down to -30°. In very cold environment and as I'm practicing in hide so static. I have the following combo:
First layer : silk glove very close to hand which allow touch screen
Second layer : wool mitten with only index and thumb open
when not shooting to stay warm, third layer : USGI artic mitten like this one protect from cold AND wind ...
depending on temperature, third layer may vary and be a bit lighter, but for extreme condition it's a no brainer.

you can't get cold with such combo, very efficient and not expensive at all.

 

[RichF]

For such cold temperatures, look for insulated gloves designed for extreme weather that also offer good dexterity for camera buttons. Touchscreen-compatible gloves or using thin touchscreen liners under thicker gloves could help with touch sensitivity.

any thoughts if a wireless remote held by inside the thick over mitt while wearing a thin liner glove would work. WIll not work the controls, but you can fire the camera

 

[Lee R]

I've never found a glove that kept my hands warm other than electric heated versions. Mittens have been my goto made from wool/fur. Hands warm up fast in a mitten. Gloves by nature separate the heat to individual fingers which can't heat well so they always get cold. Gloves in a mitten are colder than bare hands.

You can also overheat your core with a heated jacket which tends to have the body pump warm blood to the hands and feet to cool down.

 

[perchja]

I'm up in Canada so our winters are pretty cold. I use a pair of Heat Company mitts comprised of an internal polartec liner and an external zippered leather shell and exposable thumb, both inner and outer gloves have pockets for chemical pacs which really help keeping my hands warm. The liners and shells are separate ( not combined ) so I can use the liners independently in the late fall.

I too have used the liners and mittens from the Heat Company. I have used them the last few years and love how warm my hands are using these gloves. Plus I never have a problem with using my camera equipment while wearing these gloves.

 

[Harmonicat]

One thing I've thought about for this are trigger mitts, essentially hybrid mitten-gloves that allow for dexterity on your index but keep your other fingers bunch up and warm. Only issue is while using the overmit you lose the ability to operate the front of camera function buttons, but it's better than nothing I'd reckon. Currently I just use a thick Goretex ski glove by Delkine that came with a warm touch-screen sensitive inner glove and pop my thick glove off whenever I need to operate more sensitive controls.

https://ca.686.com/products/mens-gore-tex-linear-trigger-mitt something like this is what I've been considering

 

[Halfblindphoto]

I'm using these heated gloves. https://heatexperience.eu/product/heatx-heated-nordic-gloves/

Warm but still thin and flexible enough to handle the camera.

 

[ButlerKid]

A photo tour leader strongly recommends I get rechargeable gloves from somewhere like Amazon. He used them on two different trips to Antarctica.....

FWIW - I used Vallerett gloves when in Iceland during the winter and was happy with them.

 

[WcWarren]

For me, there is no glove that is going to keep my hands warm in the cold for shooting even with the hand warmer packs. Fingers still get cold. Doesn’t matter the material or thickness of glove. Or even if glove inside mitten. I Love winter and winter recreating and have done it my entire life so I’ve had considerable time to come to the conclusion that my hands just get cold easily. Im talking temps from -20’s f on up. I have to wear mittens and obviously one can’t with a camera. I’ve been checking out the heated glov options especially ones made by motion heat, a Canadian company. Some people are very lucky that their hands do seem to stay warmer and can get by in gloves.

 

[mathjak107]

my wife and i gave up on gloves that allows us to shoot and keep us warm .

two zippo hand warmers work fine for us

 

[SugarDude]

Last Jan in Yellowstone I used The Heat Company mittens and bought rechargeable battery heated liner gloves (touchscreen compatible) from Amazon. Only turned on the heat when my hands felt cold or I was out shooting a lot. Temps were in the -20's F and I was very happy with the combo. Make sure you have some really good Snow Boots. Feet got colder than hands and I had boots rated to -40F and good socks. I used foot pad chemical warmers and still weren't toasty warm. Tolerable, but not toasty.

 

[sh1209]

I have been using these for years and they work great. I can normally go out for 4 to 5 hours before the battery die. I bought a couple extra batteries. I’ve used these out in temps below zero and never had any issues. You can normally get a couple years if you use them a lot Out of the gloves.

https://a.co/d/e7A96zF

 

[GregT943]

Those Heat company gloves look amazing. Might have to grab a pair of those. I actually use a similar system but it's much cheaper, but won't be warm enough for extreme temps that are well into the negatives. I should have posted these sooner since they are dirt cheap now. But this company is going through a brand name change so their old branded stuff is dirt cheap right now. I doubt they are as warm as the Heat company gloves, they are nice full leather mittens that allow you to pop your hands out the back. I wear fleece glove liners under these mitts and have a simple chemical warm pack (hot hands or something) in the mittens, and I just pop my hand through the zippered opening when I want to start shooting. It works great in cold temps, but in low single digit Fahrenheit or colder you will probably need a thicker mitt. But if you grab these for $40 and a cheap pair of fleece liners, you have a great glove system that will keep your hands warm in most condition for only about $60.

https://www.utahskigear.com/products/hand-out-guide-mitten-low-cuff?variant=45793158430938

 

[wotan1]

While I have no expereince with them, these guys, HQ in Norway, are well respected.

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I have a couple different pairs of gloves from these guys. I have been pretty happy with their gloves. However, I live in the Pacific Northwest where it almost never snows in the lowlands and only occasionally gets below 20 degrees snf never below zero.

 

[JoelKlein]

The gloves that allow to use the camera dials and feel the half press of the shutter effectively, aren’t warm. The gloves that are warm, have a difficult time feeling the camera controls.

 

[DBalaur]

Another Canada-based vouch for the Heat Company layering system: a liner, the hard shell, and the arctic ovenmitt. I only use their shell and a pair of uniqlo touchscreen compatible gloves, but if I am ever going to Antarctica I might consider the 3rd layer. The shell alone can easily handle -15 to -20C depending on your base level of cold tolerance, but since your correct size should be a looser fit (to accommodate the inner glove/liner) they are not supposed to be very warm worn alone. No single glove is sufficient for both insulation and camera operation.