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Cold Fingers?
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Posted On: December 22 2008
By: Joan Hill
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It's winter in the northern hemisphere, and I live in New England, which, along with many other parts of the US, is already coping with ongoing winter storms and all the beauty and chaos that come along with them.
Of course, Like many Utatans, I've been heading out of doors, day and night, to capture the beauty of the cold, the snow, and the ice. I now have a weatherprooof camera, so heading out into inclement weather is not the worry that it used to be. But my hands get so cold! After 15 minutes in well-below freezing temps, my fingers really suffer.
I have some thin leather gloves that I try to work with, which is alright if I don't need to anything more than hit the shutter button. If small buttons are involved, even thin leather makes it difficult. Silk liners are very sensitive, but also very slippery on their own.
Lowepro offers a $29.95 pair of black knit lycra photo gloves that have rubber-nubby covered fingers and palms, which solve that "slippery" problem. They are unlined and of medium thickness. They are thin enough to slip underneath a pair of heavier gloves in between shots, thus avoiding annoying switching back and forth.
Freehands makes gloves allow you to interact with all of your small high-tech devices with their especially clever gloves. The parts of the gloves covering the index fingers and thumbs can be folded back so that your actual fingers make contact with touch screens or buttons. The finger caps even have little magnets to keep them out of your way while you "work it". Choose from 3 models (all black); lycra stretch, priced at $20, micro fleece at $30, and fleece lined leather at $40.
Perhaps it's to late to get these as holiday gifts this year, but with 3 months of winter weather ahead of us, it could be very worthwhile to simply buy them for yourself!
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On December 22, 2008, Rachel Cowan said ...
I go out much less in winter with the camera partly because it's not a good idea to get my wonky hands cold. So cheers Joan for these links. Those Freehands look wonderful (American companies are much more geared up for weather products than we are!). What's clever is only the index finger and thumb adjust - I have fingerless mitts but the rest of the fingertips get cold while being unused operating the camera - this is the perfect solution.
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