Comments on: How to Shoot in Freezing Temperatures and Keep Your Hands Toasty Warm http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm Discover how to use your digital camera with our Digital Photography Tips. We are a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:28:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Tim Cannon http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24457 Tim Cannon Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:43:01 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24457 Ha! you won't have to worry about that with global warming!! :D Ha! you won’t have to worry about that with global warming!! :D

]]> By: Doc Holliday http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24059 Doc Holliday Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:25:31 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24059 To Lime: I went to ANU in Canberra. I got talked into going camping one winter day. The next morning, it was -10 degrees C. I have been at Jindabyne/Threbo in the Snowy Mountains when it was that cold, or colder. I'd keep my gloves handy. [Actually, if I had a choice, I would just live on Dunk Island in the Whitsundays, Townsville or Cairns...] The "camera mittens" is a great idea. Similar types of mittens are available at sporting goods stores for use in hunting, with a flap to stick your trigger finger out while keeping the warm air in. Here in the Northern Rockies, I regularly shoot at temps way below zero - sometimes as low as -50 degrees F, not counting wind chill. I have a pair of gore-tex ski gloves that I use, (mittens have never done it for me, even though they are supposed to be warmer than gloves). Enough dexterity for the zoom ring. I take off my right glove to shoot or use a cable release. I put a chemical hot pack in the palm of each glove... My biggest problem is that batteries get too cold to function, so I put four hot packs in my down vest and put my batteries in the middle of them. Sometimes, I will get as few as 8-10 shots per fully charged battery. Putting them in with the hot packs for 10 minutes will get me another ten shots. As an extra bonus, I can put my hand in my battery pocket to get warm... Doc... To Lime: I went to ANU in Canberra. I got talked into going camping one winter day. The next morning, it was -10 degrees C. I have been at Jindabyne/Threbo in the Snowy Mountains when it was that cold, or colder. I’d keep my gloves handy. [Actually, if I had a choice, I would just live on Dunk Island in the Whitsundays, Townsville or Cairns...]

The “camera mittens” is a great idea. Similar types of mittens are available at sporting goods stores for use in hunting, with a flap to stick your trigger finger out while keeping the warm air in.

Here in the Northern Rockies, I regularly shoot at temps way below zero – sometimes as low as -50 degrees F, not counting wind chill. I have a pair of gore-tex ski gloves that I use, (mittens have never done it for me, even though they are supposed to be warmer than gloves). Enough dexterity for the zoom ring. I take off my right glove to shoot or use a cable release. I put a chemical hot pack in the palm of each glove…

My biggest problem is that batteries get too cold to function, so I put four hot packs in my down vest and put my batteries in the middle of them. Sometimes, I will get as few as 8-10 shots per fully charged battery. Putting them in with the hot packs for 10 minutes will get me another ten shots. As an extra bonus, I can put my hand in my battery pocket to get warm…

Doc…

]]> By: Bobby A http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24054 Bobby A Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:49:53 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24054 Matt, gracias for the article. Just shows how a photog has again provided another solution to a problem that plagues a group of us. I also recognize that this article is NOT about how cold is your cold and my temperatures are colder than your temperatures....ahhh, my children. Bo. Matt, gracias for the article. Just shows how a photog has again provided another solution to a problem that plagues a group of us.

I also recognize that this article is NOT about how cold is your cold and my temperatures are colder than your temperatures….ahhh, my children.

Bo.

]]> By: private snowman http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24048 private snowman Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:20:24 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24048 Matthew, What Olli means, I think, is that people not living in places where it keeps cold for extended periods tend to believe that keeping hands warm is a matter of glowes. This is not the whole truth. Did you know, that the head is responsible for 20-25% of total heat loss? The crucial thing is to keep your head, extremities and body warm, which makes it unneccessary for the autonomic nervous system to shunt blood away from periferal circulation. This is done best by either remaining indoors or layered clothing, a skill which people in countries with really cold and long winters have known "instinctively" for generations. You might want to check NATO's guidlines on how to remain operative (e.g. handle a gun in combat) for long periods in extreme cold conditions. Matthew,
What Olli means, I think, is that people not living in places where it keeps cold for extended periods tend to believe that keeping hands warm is a matter of glowes. This is not the whole truth. Did you know, that the head is responsible for 20-25% of total heat loss? The crucial thing is to keep your head, extremities and body warm, which makes it unneccessary for the autonomic nervous system to shunt blood away from periferal circulation. This is done best by either remaining indoors or layered clothing, a skill which people in countries with really cold and long winters have known “instinctively” for generations. You might want to check NATO’s guidlines on how to remain operative (e.g. handle a gun in combat) for long periods in extreme cold conditions.

]]> By: Matthew G. Monroe http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24031 Matthew G. Monroe Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:07:00 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24031 Tim: As far as I'm concerned, 15 F is plenty cold when the wind is blowing and I have to stand around waiting for a shot to happen. AugPhoto: Yeah, I do have to be careful about randomly pointing with my "cable hand" when hooked up to camera. Olli: It's not a matter of just "getting accustomed to the cold." It's a matter of body fat, circulation, wind speed, and dressing properly. Myself, I grew up in a part of the U.S. that probably gets just as cold as Finland does in the Winter time, and I can't for the life of me imagine going outside -- at minus 5 degrees F -- with just a light set of leather gloves on my hands. I would have frostbite within ten or fifteen minutes and -- yes -- I know from personal experience what frostbite feels like. Tim: As far as I’m concerned, 15 F is plenty cold when the wind is blowing and I have to stand around waiting for a shot to happen.

AugPhoto: Yeah, I do have to be careful about randomly pointing with my “cable hand” when hooked up to camera.

Olli: It’s not a matter of just “getting accustomed to the cold.” It’s a matter of body fat, circulation, wind speed, and dressing properly. Myself, I grew up in a part of the U.S. that probably gets just as cold as Finland does in the Winter time, and I can’t for the life of me imagine going outside — at minus 5 degrees F — with just a light set of leather gloves on my hands. I would have frostbite within ten or fifteen minutes and — yes — I know from personal experience what frostbite feels like.

]]> By: Tim http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24030 Tim Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:49:59 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24030 Not sure that 15 F is really all that cold. You can have your hand out of your mitten for several minutes without much problem. -40 F - I like your ideas! Not sure that 15 F is really all that cold. You can have your hand out of your mitten for several minutes without much problem. -40 F – I like your ideas!

]]> By: Cam http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24025 Cam Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:00:24 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24025 Suggestion from a buddy who did arctic training with Canadian forces: Wear a pair of those mini gloves inside your mittens. They'll keep you from freezing to anything if you need the fine control you can't get using the mittens, and they are almost as good as skin in terms of grabbing things/pushing buttons. Then if you need you can pull them off, and only on the hand you need. He specifically had a pair of the mini gloves with the trigger finger cut off for doing rifle training with Canadian Arctic Rangers. Suggestion from a buddy who did arctic training with Canadian forces:
Wear a pair of those mini gloves inside your mittens.
They’ll keep you from freezing to anything if you need the fine control you can’t get using the mittens, and they are almost as good as skin in terms of grabbing things/pushing buttons. Then if you need you can pull them off, and only on the hand you need. He specifically had a pair of the mini gloves with the trigger finger cut off for doing rifle training with Canadian Arctic Rangers.

]]> By: AC http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24024 AC Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:34:17 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24024 Smart idea. Since my camera does not have a shutter release I do my best the brave the elements for as long as I can. Somehow, gloves and mittens (unless very fine) don't cut it while operating a camera. Smart idea. Since my camera does not have a shutter release I do my best the brave the elements for as long as I can. Somehow, gloves and mittens (unless very fine) don’t cut it while operating a camera.

]]> By: lime http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24023 lime Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:26:46 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24023 Man, the only excuse I can come up with for not thinking of that is that my brain doesn't work well at these cold temperatures :-) Btw, I am leaving the cold of England for the more sensible climate of Australia in exactly two weeks. No more cold for me! Man, the only excuse I can come up with for not thinking of that is that my brain doesn’t work well at these cold temperatures :-)

Btw, I am leaving the cold of England for the more sensible climate of Australia in exactly two weeks. No more cold for me!

]]> By: Augphoto http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/comment-page-1#comment-24022 Augphoto Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:18:10 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-in-freezing-temperatures-and-keep-your-hands-toasty-warm/#comment-24022 Dah, so simple yet, I never thought of it. I'll have to try it. Don't you ever jerk your camera around, however, being tethered to it like that? Dah, so simple yet, I never thought of it. I’ll have to try it. Don’t you ever jerk your camera around, however, being tethered to it like that?

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