Warm gloves for use with M8 / D-Lux 4

[brucek]

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Does anybody have recommendations for warm gloves that can be worn and still allow good feel and control using these cameras? I have a pair of the Lowepro Photo Gloves and while they're great they are definitely not adequate when temperatures get down in the 20s (F) with any kind of wind.

 

Thanks!

[dave_d]

Bruce, The Rochester, NY cold is getting to me too. The Deluth Trading Company has some unique gloves for cold weather, this one looks like it might be a good one: Glomitts – Men's Force Nine Glomitts - Duluth Trading Company

 

I have bought some things things from DTC on occasion and the quality is generally good and the prices fair.

[stunsworth]

I bought a warm pair of gloves and cut the finger tips of with a pair of scissors.

[brucek]

Thanks guys, but I've tried gloves similar to the DTC gloves (which are essentially gloves with no fingers) and I just can't keep my hands warm enough with them, though maybe I could combine them with the Lowepro gloves. Thanks for the suggestions, though.

[elgenper]

Many years ago, I bought a pair of Helly-Hansen "shooter´s mitts" that work for me, even in the Swedish mountains in mid-winter (-20 deg C and below...). They´re made of thick fiber pile, without any shell, and they have slots where you can temporarily stick out the number of fingers you need for a particular task, and then withdraw them into the warmth again. They´re mitts, not gloves, so you can´t do anything fiddly with the fingers inside. They work great with my Digilux 2 (and I´m sure with my M9 when it arrives...), but with the D-Lux 4 you have to be careful not to cover the lens with parts of it.