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Well I was in town the other day and dropped into say hello to the boys in the camera shop, as usual I ended up with my wallet out !

I bought some LowePro gloves and all I can say is BUY SOME ! Had a few late nights out with cameras in the snow and they are absolutely brilliant. I am a bit of a kit geek and from motorcycling to mountain bike, Ski to Snowboard I always buy the best performance / protective gear.

These gloves, for the money are without doubt one of my best ever purchases, grippy, wicking, warm - just superb. They will not work with i-phone though !

http://www.wilkinson.co.uk/store/product.php?productid=16606&cat=0&page=

Buy them today, you will not regret it !
 
bought them for myself for x-mas, was out in -9 the other night photographing carnage on the main road at 11pm, toastie warm hands and full use of camera controlls, best £20 i've spent
 
Geeky in the extreme... you should be ashamed! :D
 
Is it actually possible to press the small buttons on camera bodies whilst wearing them?

Pulling gloves on and off is a pest.
 
yes, hence the name 'photographers gloves'

i can operate all buttons on my 20d apart from the tiny toggle next to the viewfinder, which adjusts the focus in the viewfinder to your eyes, i set that once and never touched it again
 
c_robinson said:
yes, hence the name 'photographers gloves'

i can operate all buttons on my 20d apart from the tiny toggle next to the viewfinder, which adjusts the focus in the viewfinder to your eyes, i set that once and never touched it again
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Sounds good.
 
I picked up a karrimor pair that are really good for £2.99 from sports direct, nice snug fit and thin enough so you can still operate the buttons
 
I use some seal skins for the very dead of winter, for slightly warmer conditions i have a pair of these...
 
I think the Lowepro gloves are very good apart from the occasional problem I had pressing the shutter release button.
 
I've had a pair of the lowepro ones for about three years now and they have served me well.
 
Fingerless gloves work just fine :D
 
I'm very pleased with my Lowepro gloves that I was bought last year, the little grippy blobs give extra confidence, I'm not going to drop the Camera :thumbs:
 
I had looked for these a while ago but nowhere seemed to stock the small size. My hands are tiny. I've been using fingerless gloves.
 
And fingerless gloves work just fine and keep your hands perfectly warm... as long as you aren't going to be anywhere thats seriously cold that is going to freeze you to things that you touch.
 
I've had a pair of these lowepor gloves for three years now, and they are perfect.
I've never had any problems operating the camera while wearing them and even the fiddly IS switches on my lens are a doddle. Strongly recommend them (They are really warm too)
 
ouch! we have the same gloves only non branded and in blue at work, they cost us £1.99 a pair.
 
stokecity_m said:
ouch! we have the same gloves only non branded and in blue at work, they cost us £1.99 a pair.
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I tried a pair of the cheap non branded gloves that look the same. They are not the same in my experience. The wool on these is closer knit and the pads are a difference substance that work much better handling cameras.

Still, you are paying a premium for something that definitly not 8x better than the cheapos
 
I wear something similar but unbranded, main difference is over the top of them I wear some wool fingerless gloves, keeps me nice and toasty while able to operate all the camera functions properly and the rubber studs keep a nice grip on kit.

Tommy.
 
desantnik said:
Fingerless gloves work just fine :D
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See, I bought a pair thinking that would be the case. Worst mistake ever. My palms are nice and toasty but I very quickly loose the feeling in my fingers.
 
RichardtheSane said:
I tried a pair of the cheap non branded gloves that look the same. They are not the same in my experience. The wool on these is closer knit and the pads are a difference substance that work much better handling cameras.

Still, you are paying a premium for something that definitly not 8x better than the cheapos
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Dunno...they look very similar to the work gloves we get issued for nothing...Lycra/Meraklon mix, very warm, very durable, very...er...free...
 
Think I will be looking into a pair of these, bought some sniper gloves couple of weeks ago but are a bit thick to feel dials etc. Thanks for the heads up.
 
just back in from a day on the coast of south west wales (pembrey racing circuit)

wore the gloves all day, hands were toasty warm and never had a problem with the camera!1 i would highly reccomend these to anyone, well worth the £££
 
Arkady said:
Dunno...they look very similar to the work gloves we get issued for nothing...Lycra/Meraklon mix, very warm, very durable, very...er...free...
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Ah, but what premium does the supplier sell them to the army at? ;)
(And who are they, if they are that good maybe we could do a group buy)
 
Another bit of military kit that might work are the issue flying gloves. I have an old black pair that are thin enough to utilize all of the camera functionality. Most surplus shops should stock them.

Cheesy
 
KayJay said:
See, I bought a pair thinking that would be the case. Worst mistake ever. My palms are nice and toasty but I very quickly loose the feeling in my fingers.
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Must just be me then... and I suffer from cold hands really badly lately!

Mind you, mine are spetsnaz gloves
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I've tried loads of thin cloves for photography use. I've tried Lowepro ones, but my latest ones are Mountain Hardwear which are pretty good. I still get cold fingers though when I'm sitting for hours on end in hides etc. One thing I want to try are something like neoprene drysuit cloves for surfing or similar. I'm sure something like that must exist.
 
There are those sealskinz things... my colleague had some but just not enough feeling in them.
 
desantnik said:
There are those sealskinz things... my colleague had some but just not enough feeling in them.
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Also tried. Although SealSkinz are a brand, so have a big range of different gloves. But the ones I tried weren't warm enough. Most of the time I'm fine, but occasionally I have really bad circulation in the tips of my fingers, which when sitting in a hide for several hours at freezing temperatures results in very cold hands.
 
anyone know where to get unbranded gloves like the lowepros? i use fingerless but tips beem getting far too cold recently
 
Cheesy said:
Another bit of military kit that might work are the issue flying gloves. I have an old black pair that are thin enough to utilize all of the camera functionality. Most surplus shops should stock them.

Cheesy
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They're good for warmer climates, but I found them utterly useless for the 'real' cold - that pigskin is lovely - soft and comfortable, but has no insulating properties whatsoever - I have three pairs myself - the old cream-coloured ones and the green ones - trying to get some of the cream/yellow-tan aircrew gloves now - that reinforced palm/thumb/forefinger is just what I need.
We now get issued tan/brown pigskin gloves which are identical to the aircrew glove but with a padded knuckle area. The reason they're a hideous cammo pattern is to prevent them being worn out of uniform, I suspect.

Much better are the US Aircrew gloves - leather palms/inside finger & thumb with a nomex back and sleeve. They are pretty toasty in the cold and not too hot in the...hot...lol

They come in sage green, desert tan and black, so they don't look too 'army'...
 
I've got all sorts of glove thrown in the back of the car. Fingerless, neoprene, cheapy ones and a pair of these:

http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/p/Binoculars/High_performance_mitts_and_hat.htm

Absolutely brilliant! I use these on the hills in Wales. The mitt just pops over when you want to keep the finger tips covered and velcro back when you need to use the camera.
Nice and thick with a good padded palm thats hard wearing.
Warmest ones I've found so far.

Kev.
 
andrewc said:
Went to an Army Surplus store, but they didn't have anything suitable. There is another which I'll visit tomorrow.
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To be honest, shooting gloves are designed for something completely different - the amount of pressure you need to feel on a weapon's trigger is totally different to the amount of pressure you need on a shutter release...
 
kevshore said:
I've got all sorts of glove thrown in the back of the car. Fingerless, neoprene, cheapy ones and a pair of these:

http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/p/Binoculars/High_performance_mitts_and_hat.htm

Absolutely brilliant! I use these on the hills in Wales. The mitt just pops over when you want to keep the finger tips covered and velcro back when you need to use the camera.
Nice and thick with a good padded palm thats hard wearing.
Warmest ones I've found so far.

Kev.
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I've got a pair of those, but I got annoyed with the 'mitt' part and took them off in the end. For really cold conditions I use thin inner gloves, Army-Issue cold-weather mitts and Issue gore-tex outer mitts - they never get used for work, only when I go hill-walking... :D

For photography work I do use the pigskin flying gloves mentioned by Cheesy if it's not too cold (I wear them when it's hot too, to keep sweat and dirt from clogging-up the camera controls and to protect my hands from burning when it gets very hot), or the issued camo pigskin work-gloves we get issued over here, but I cut off the tips of the thumb and index fingers of the right glove so I have some tactile control.

I think it depends what kind of work you're doing - for moving around, the thin flying gloves are great as you don't actually get too cold - as long as you keep the wind off...
For static work, I'll take the advice of all the guys who sit all day up on Cad West or on windswept Racing Circuits...
 
I picked up some of these Lowepro gloves a couple of weeks ago - impulse buy when in Jacobs. I had some Sealskinz and found they cut off too much circulation and lost a lot of feeling, probably a bit small for me which didn't help. I have to say the Lowepro gloves are a lot better - Spent an afternoon on a cold beach on Xmas eve and forgot they were even there. Didn't have any issues operating the camera or remote and remained fairly toasty.

I do think 20 quid is a bit steep, but they're certainly the best gloves I've used.

Only thing I'd add is that I don't consider myself to have big hands and the medium size felt too small on me. I ended up with a large size which are perfect. In other words, try them on in a shop if you intend to buy.
 
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