I have to say, this is the first “review” type video of any kind where the presenter actually doesn’t recommend a product. You’ve got a lot of respect from me on this one.
Be careful with gloves with magnets and drones :D We had one incident where the magnets in the gloves of my pilot were confusing the compass of our inspire2 which resulted in a minor crash :/ When you're using gloves with magnets I would recommend leaving the drone a bit on the ground after setting it on the ground and powering it on with your new awesome magnetic gloves :D
The Heat Company are my favorites after many trials. The Merino liners are my everyday glove. I use a shell if it is going to be very cold. Great gloves.
I also went with the Heat Company with 2 layers: Wind Pro Liner with touch sensitive fingers and the Mittens as 2nd layer. Works like a charm. The Polartec material of the quite thick liner is actually pretty great!
I have the Vallerette gloves and the overmitts that go over the gloves that have the full finger part that flips back with the same magnets. The waterproof zipper for the mitts is awesome. The mitt /glove combo I have are the warmest my hands have been in super cold -30C weather other than military mitts that I wore in the army reserves in the 1980s.
Thanks for honest review and pretty much my findings. The advantage with the wooden mitten type isn’t just the wool but they force the fingers together so they sort of warm each other whereas the others keep the fingers separated by the material and won’t warm
My experience exactly. I’ve added the Merino wool liners to my Vallerret gloves and gotten good results. Nothing beats mittens however when it gets really cold.
I agree with mittens. I watched a hiking vid many years ago and they recommended mittens as your fingers rubbing/touching each other creates additional heat.
I am playing with Vallerret gloves and mittens. I am finding it difficult to wear liners under the gloves. The thumb in particular is very tight. Have you found the same? tx
Interesting topic on gloves Mads, When I was looking about 18months ago there was little on the web apart from Vallerette. However, what I think gets overlooked is waterproofness as it's all very well having nice warm gloves when the weather is bone dry but if we are out in cold wet weather/snow it's easy for gloves to become wet and most gloves won't be any good then. I bought a pair of Sealskinz gloves that are similar to the Vallerette in that they let you free the thumb and forefinger (pointy finger😉) but they are roughly half the price of Vallerette and waterproof. They do have similar magnet issues as the Vallerette though. They have mitten versions and liners etc now. Thanks for all your work over the year, your channel is one of the 3 I make a point of always watching as you speak sense and have no pretensions. Not having to skip over Squarespace adverts every video is also a real bonus! Have a great Christmas.
beautiful images to finish off another great year of following you Mads, you really have set the bar high with both the quality of your images, your storytelling and your videos. Wishing you and your family a peaceful christmas and as always look forward in anticipation to seeing what awaits you in the new year
And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to you too! I like my “The Heat Company” gloves. Although the system wouldn’t be ideal for an expedition (heat pads are a big part in extreme cold), they work very well for a night of astrophotography or a few hours of landscape photography.
I second these. Brought my heat company gloves to Alaska during the winter (-18F, -28C) and had no issues with the cold. The liners aren't the most waterproof so if the snow is wetter or occasionally rainy like on my recent Scotland trip you might have to dry them at the end of the day
Very helpful review of the gloves, I agree, Mads, that wool is the way to go. I have a pair of Valleret gloves but I also got their merino wool liners that help provide additional warmth. I still use those chemical shake and heat packets (Hot Hands) and slip them into the palm of my hands. I can curl my fingers back into the gloves when I am waiting on a shot. It works. Thank you for a year of excellent videos. Glædelig jul, Mads!
I got my new vallerrett gloves last week and I have to say that they are not bad. I agree with you about the magnets not quite sticking together always but they do say that the lining of the gloves is merino wool. I live in a Mediterranean country so we don’t really get very cold weather like up north where you are based, but they kept my fingers warm during a cold spell of weather we recently had. At around 4-5 C they did reasonably well. The lack of dexterity on the exposed fingers was something to be expected though. 😃
Thank you Mads for a great review and a years worth of inspirational work, and fun. I wish you and your family a great Christmas and hope Santa is really good to you all...
Interesting video. I've always struggled with finding gloves that will actually keep my hands warm when not in activity. My conclusion is - particularly when getting older with less efficient circulation - that gloves dont work. At least when the gloves are small enough to be able to operate the camera without removing them. Totally agree that wool works best, but it's not enough in real cold. I find that mittens work much better than gloves as the area exposed to the cold with four fingers together is much smaller than with individual fingers. Mittens pretty much rules out using the camera without removing them or at least removing the part that covers the fingers like on the pair you showed. My current preference is using wool liners/super thin wool gloves and mittens that I remove just for operating the camera. I've got several pairs of mittens ranging from fairly warm to just thin and water- and or wind proof. I can also combine the wool liners with gloves when the temperature and/or activity level allow it.
Interesting, I thought I was the only one with sensitive hands. Yes wool is the best except when they get wet. I use the 3 layer system of The Heat Company. Works fine for me after trying so many gloves.
Simply do layers with gloves too. I have very thin Merino wool gloves and thick mittens as hard shell. When i need to operate camera i take out my hand of mitten and use it with thin Merino wool gloves. It's not that really warm but better then with bare skin... and also pushing buttons takes few sec and after is just waiting where you keep your hands toasty in mittens 😸 also wool is good for skin cuz it's will stilmulate blood flow that's why new born babies been put on with wool tiny socks 🧦
I've come to the same conclusion about the gloves. I have some Vallerette gloves with the magnets and some woollen mittens that fold back with Velcro to reveal fingerless gloves. The cheap woollen mittens win every time for warmth and convenience.
Serkan günes said something about keeping warm in a video(cant remember witch one) but layer up if you wil keep warm. Use mittons when standing stil and have fingergloves inside to use whit the camera. Hestra is a good brand for outdor handwear. You can also use hanwarmers at the pulse rather than the top of the hand. An right cloting around the torso.
Great review Mads! I did some research on photography gloves last year before going into Swedish Lapland to photograph the aurora and I ended up getting a merino liner with touchscreen sensitivity to go under a wind stopper pullover glove, both from Hestra. The combination worked pretty well for me during my trip but I did have handwarmers in my pockets to reach for every once in a while. I agree with you that wool is the way to go!
I live in the Canadian North. We routinely deal with winter temperatures in the minus thirties and forties. Gloves are pretty much useless when it's really cold. Mitts are the only way to go for me, and I agree with your comments about wool--it really is the best! To be honest, I have never found an ideal solution, although I also have a pair of flip mitts with the finger gloves inside, that are pretty serviceable. That said, my favourite hand coverings are a pair of homemade wool mitts. Pull them off. Do your settings fast, and get them back on. It's a compromise, but it works. Cheers for the video.
A warning on gloves with magnets in the finger tips.. Magnets are metal. Metal gets really really really cold in freezing temps. This makes your fingers colder. I've carefully removed the magnets in gloves I have. That being said, I like my meteor mitts by Outdoor research. Mainly I just use the fleece flip-top finger mitten liner that come with them and wear a thin liner like the OR Sensor gloves. Both have a pocket on the back of the hand for handwarmers and I can also drop a set in the tips of the mitts if needed. This is the best solution I've found for work at 10 to -20f and I've learned to work most of my camera functions without having to take off the liners.
In the early 90’s I had a photo assignment in Antarctica at McMurdo Station and the South Pole. A photojournalist friend of mine that worked in Minnesota gave me the best advice for keeping my hands and fingers warm when shooting in extremely cold weather. You start by putting on thin glove liners, then put on the wool fingerless gloves with the flap. Then, the trick is to place a small hand warmer pack into the flap. When you need to shoot you peel back the flap, the glove liners will protect your fingertips, and when you are done shooting put the flap back over your fingers and the hand warmer will warm up your fingertips. When I wasn’t actively shooting I would put wear cold weather mittens on over the wool gloves and liner. This glove setup saved my hands and fingers for the 12 days I spent in Antarctica. In 1993 we didn’t have digital cameras so I was shooting color transparency film. In sub-zero temperatures changing a roll of film could take a very long time leaving your fingertips exposed. First, you have to rewind the film very, very slowly to avoid getting static marks on your film. Then you have to pop out the roll, move it to the exposed film pocket, retrieve a new roll, thread the leader into the sprocket, close the back and advance the film to the first frame. It seems simple but doing it a - 38 ˚, it is painstakingly slow.
Thanks Mads for sharing your beautiful images,tips and tricks on landscape photography over the past 12 months it has been great following your channel and looking forward to 2022. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Hi Mads. I couldn’t agree more about the gloves. I have the first type you showed and they are good down to say 3 degrees and below that, i.e. the whole winter, my fingers freeze. I have found that adding a second layer using the internal layer of my old snowboard gloves works wonders, but of course I have to pull it off every time I need to press a button. As for the photos, what can i say … great! The person makes the difference in the first one.
Hi Mads. Thank you for this review. I've never been tempted by specific "photography" gloves. I've always relied on traditional outdoor brands like Mountain Equipment or RAB. They've never let me down and definitely pass the test when standing around for long periods. Wishing you a very happy Christmas.
Valleret gloves do have merino wool on the inside apparently, but I wonder if they have them inside the fingertips. Thank you Mads, you have just saved me a lot of money. I have a pair of thin liners with touch screen pads on, not great for winter but ok for Autumn, in the U.K., plus the not only do the touch screen pads work but they cost literally nothing, or they did last time I bought them as the two pairs I have bought only cost £2.49. My biggest issue is size, my hands are small but worse part being short fingers and due to my various health issues I feel the cold really badly.
Mittens have always been my favorite way to keep my hands warm in Winter, gloves separate your fingers and they have to keep themselves warm, but mittens keep the fingers together and they help warm each other within the mitten. Sometimes for dexterity, I'll wear a thin glove inside a mitten, I can take the mitten off and use the glove and put the mitten back on. I love leather mittens with a wool lining = warm hands. :)
I'm with you with those kind of wool gloves. I have normal button for the hood and the thumb folds open as well. Velcro is honestly quite bad design choice for the hood but you can always sew magnets to the hood (under a piece of fabric) and another one on the back of the glove. You can find those kind of gloves in most super markets and also in fishing equipment stores with different thicknesses and hood attachment styles. I have relatively thin ones and I add liner gloves under them when it gets cold enough.
I agree 100% about the Vallerret photography gloves. My fingers freeze in them. They're totally useless if you're looking to keep your hands warm. Better off with a pair of fingerless gloves and mittens to put over them. It's quicker and you can recover the warmth more easily.
Tx Mads! I discovered the fingerless glove with mitten flaps years ago in Canada. The style has been my go-to for cold weather ever since . I find that the polypro fleece products work as well if not better than wool. Washable, dries faster than wool, won't shrink, and more durable. Consider looking at some of the 'mountaineering or ice climbing' brands. Some models are fine for photography. For overnight winter wear, I use a thin liner glove with good finger accuracy (to push buttons without skin sticking to the metal/plastic) under a polypro 'finger mitten'. And if the weather is very sub-zero, I overlay that with a thick waterproof and lined outer mitten that has a zipper in the palm so I can stick my fingers and thumb out of it when I need to work the camera. I can put a hand warmer in between the outer 2 layers if needed. Not quite 'Vogue' but works for me.
I was having trouble looking for a good gloves for winter photography and didnt want to overpay for those expensive gloves. Thanks Mad for this very helpful video. Wool it is. 😊
Cold fingers are a struggle. Our winters in the Pacific Northwest aren’t really that cold, seldom below 0 C in the city areas, but we are very damp in the winter making it feel cold. I have experienced poor build quality as well on some. I am considering some battery powered motorcycle gloves. I would have to take them off completely to use the camera but I would be able to rapidly warm my hands.
I don't spend a lot of time outdoors in the winter, but I do like to photograph the mountains when it snows. I've had lots of gloves over the years, but my favorites for photography are still a pair of Lowepro gloves that I've had for years. They are thick enough to afford a little warmth, but thin enough to handle the camera controls. They also have some sort of pebbling on the palm side that assures a good grip. My other gloves are warmer, or waterproof, or have some sort of way to expose fingertips, but I still prefer my Lowepro gloves. Happy holidays to you and your family.
Very timely. I'm taking stock of current gear in prep for an Iceland trip in Feb and was considering those Ipsoot gloves. I needed to be reminded of the point about wool. I have some thin, cheap, wool gloves I bought in Amsterdam that I now recall are warmer than some of my heavier/thick gloves. Thanks. Also noticed you had two different gloves on in the last part, which I do a lot too.
Beautiful moon images, Mads. You have been a real inspiration to my photography during the year. I love your down to earth approach. Happy Christmas to you and I look forward to more videos next year.
You are correct about wool. Nothing better than wool socks! Coarse wool is better than merino if you are not the sensitive type. I use nylon over-mits with a fake wool lining with wool fingerless gloves underneath.
I use some real cheap fold back mittens with a foldback thumb also. Made from polyester but I find them pretty warm. Quick and easy to fold back is the key Thanks for the vid
Merry Christmas, thanks for the advice about wool. I have never found a pair of gloves that really kept my hands warm, but growing up wool mittens always worked.
Great review! I bought some “fishing” gloves in neoprene, maybe 15 € (on Black Friday), they have three fingers that you can flip up, they are thin, waterproof and really warm. I was quite surprised, haven’t had them for long but did test them during a snowstorm a while back. I’m happy with them, I have arthritis in my hands so warmth is a must for my hands to be able to work. Haven’t tried standing still for a longer time, when I was working with my hands it got so warm I even was sweating, but I still recommend them. Bought mine from Happy Angler. Beautiful picture at the end!
Merry Christmas! Great video because I've tried many, many, many gloves and mittens. My hands easily get cold. I've given away so many gloves and mittens failing to keep my hands warm. I've tried battery glove inserts with limited success. One problem I find, I need XL sized gloves and mittens. I've tried on many brands proclaiming they're XL sized finding they're tight. If I find a larger I size XXLthey're tight. I do own the Vallets and somewhat good while walking. Standing around like us forget about it! I carry Black Diamond mittens and a thin liner which just fits in the mittens. The only problem, bulky mittens and difficult to handle a tripod. I watched a video recently and a lady from Vermont her in the US suggested getting a soft tip stylus to choose your LCD buttons. The only drawback, holding the stylus with heavy gloves and finding it in your pocket. Love your moon photos.
When I was mountaineering in winter I always used sheepskin mittens and always had warm hands. Some inner gloves with sheepskin mittens could do the trick and some string on the mittens from one hand to the other around the shoulders would keep then secure.
Thank you, Mads, for the useful glove rundown. I changed my mind as to what I'll get now. Merry Christmas to you and your family. I love the moon photos, too; really nice.
Don't quite get the complaints about the Valleret gloves, I've got their liners, the Tinden gloves. and the Arctic mitts, and if your hands are cold you are probably not wearing them as a system where you add another layer as it gets colder, also when in the extreme cold not moving around much I utilize the small zippered compartments for adding Little Hotties handwarmer packets, haven"t been cold yet. It's much like people complaining about getting cold feet in their high dollar leather boots when I'm warm wearing heavy socks, wool liners, and canvas mukluks, plus I carry some cardboard to shoots where I know I'll be standing still for a long time. You'd be surprised what a difference standing on cardboard makes. All together winter photography is a learnt skill, and learning how to stay warm is lesson number one!
Vallerat have produced some Merino Wool liners for their gloves with touch screen finger pads on the fingers exposed. They work really well to keep your hands/fingers warm.
If you know anyone who can knit or have that kinda skill set, commission them to make some trigger mitts with the finger and thumb able to fold. If you’re out in the cold often it’s worth the cost
Merry Christmas, I do appreciate an honest review. I guess that mystery of wool/merino gloves is that let the moisture go out which in temperature under zero °C makes your hands freeze. Btw I do like remote control which allows you to keep at least one hand in your pocket. I have to say that even the non-original version of Sony RMT-P1BT from JJC works well.
Love how you say “wool” and why is it so hard for companies to realize wool is king for cold and wet weather. I have a pair of wool mittens like yours and they too have their issues but seem to be the warmest ones I have that are still handy for photography. Merry Christmas to you and your family Mads 😀
Thats my gripe with so much gear aimed specifically at photographers. So much stuff "designed to be used in the outdoors" that seems to be built by people who have no idea about anything outdoors related and just make a product that looks pretty
My grandma knitted mittens for us when we were kids. I was an outdoors kid, I wore granmas mittlens all the time. She sewed different designs and colors and we got them around Christmas time from Minnesota. I always looked forward to getting a new pair. I could be a vain teenager, but I knew what worked in Alaska.
@@Jeff-jg7jh Jeff, we used wool mittens, shirts, pants, socks, hats.. I am in the northeaster U.S. where it gets (got) cold and that's what we used to keep us warm even when wet. It seemed to keep you warm and wick away moisture at the same time. I wore buffalo check pants and coat most of my childhood and could stay out all day in them. I also agree with @Atooch as well... take a look at what the Inuit wore for their warm clothes, made of animal skins, caribou I think, not man made materials.
Perfect timing Mads, was looking to head to German alps in a few days and was in need of some gloves. Thank you. Also Merry Christmas to you sir, and I hope I can do another workshop with you.. had an amazing time and again. Thank you.
Wear a pair of wool fingerless gloves inside the ones with the removable thumb and index finger, your hands will be way warmer and hopefully the heat will travel up to your finger ends.
-15C here this morning in S/E Finland. I went out for a couple of hours to take photos this morning and my fingertips are still stinging eight hours later. I wish I could find good gloves also! Now I'm going to have to go hunting for fliptop woollen mittens, cos I can't keep doing this! 🤣
i bought a pair from the Big Hardware store here in the US. Mechanix(cool X). They fell apart in one week. I think they were sewed with recycaled spider web. Spider web is tougher. It was polyester. It's the fore finger.
I find that mittens keep my hands warmer than gloves so I'm not surprised by your recommendation. Thanks for saving me from buying the expensive gloves. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Here's my tip guys, these Sealskinz all weather sporting gloves are excellent. However, they're a small fit and make sure you order one size up. I'm large and ordered extra large which fit perfectly. They're warm and waterproof. I have two pairs of Vallaret gloves and in my opinion, they're not worth the money, they are not waterproof and in fact absorb water worse than any gloves I've ever tried, my mid weight pair are coming apart at the seams after less than 18 months use.
I use a pair of Field Pro Hunting Gloves by Hoggs of Fife (I am not a hunter and I do not own a gun) which my wife bought me to try with a camera. They do work as the face of the index finger and thumb are of thinner material and you can feel the buttons and dials on the camera. I do not think they would work on camera touch screens. They are lined and I find them very warm, however I have not tried them in condition you find in Iceland or Faroe Islands! I live in the Scottish Borders where they work fine.
Thanks for the review. I am looking for a drone piloting gloves. In that case, you have very little movement of your fingers so the heat produced is also low. When you have no heat to keep, no amount of insuation will help you getting warmer, since there is not enough warmth in your hands at some point of time. Therefore I am looking for electrically heated gloves that produce heat. Not to make your hands hot but just to add a little when needed. Gloves have to be: * thin enough in the area of the inner surface of palm. Wool kr down infill is not fitting; * not slippery and covered of rubber in the inner area of fingers. Handling your remote or camera with wool gloves is almost like having your hands greased. * the tip of the thum and pointing finger MUST be free. Touchscreen friendly covering wont help since I need to feel my sticks perfectly. Otherwise Its like playing a guitar with gloves If you have some idea, please share it here :)
That was a disappointingly useful video. Thanks for the honest review! I know that many of these brands have other gloves available as well, some with dedicated liners. The gloves that I now have are Heatsavers, and they're very warm and comfortable, made from some wool-like material, but I can't use them for everything when shooting and when I take them off, I'd like to have something like some thin liners! Merry Christmas!
Great review, Mads! Nice moonset shot, too. One standard tip. With a very low contrast scene and a lot of light in the sky, this is a really bad time to leave the lens hood off your zoom telephoto, at least if you want any detail at all in your shadows.
I have a pair of "mittens" like the wool ones you show (but not wool) that I picked up rather inexpensively on amazon. The thumb folds back and holds in place with a magnet (which as another commenter said will mess with anything with a built in compass). The main part also folds back to reveal the other four fingers which I usually just have my pointer finger sticking out of.
Thanks Mads. I agree on the Wool, although I use a polar fleece (polyester) version of the fingerless mittens, they work well unless there is wind. In general mittens will work better to keep fingers warm than gloves. I found it funny that for your moon shots at the end you were wearing the wool mitten on your right hand and a glove on your left hand. Merry Christmas to you too, thanks for all the great videos, look forward to your videos in 2022.
Mad's, firstly happy Christmas to you and your girlfriend, I hope we may bump into your both in the UK next year 🤔 Those boulders in your garden bring a new meaning to the word gravel (or shingle) that normally runs down the side of your house 😋 And did you loose some gloves in the video, as at the end, you thought sod it, I'll wear one mitten and one Vallerret? 😏... A couple of recommendations for you... Icebreaker do a merino liner glove that's excellent (even when wet or cold and on it's own) and Rab do a light weight pertex mitten (Xenon), though both clearly no good for photography, but a good combination for keeping your hands warm...As you touched on gloves don't work, not enough heat circulation, mittens are the best every time. Oh.... and 'sew' in the UK sounds like 'So' 😛-- But with all seriousness, all the best and keep up the good work 👍
I have to say, this is the first “review” type video of any kind where the presenter actually doesn’t recommend a product. You’ve got a lot of respect from me on this one.
Be careful with gloves with magnets and drones :D We had one incident where the magnets in the gloves of my pilot were confusing the compass of our inspire2 which resulted in a minor crash :/ When you're using gloves with magnets I would recommend leaving the drone a bit on the ground after setting it on the ground and powering it on with your new awesome magnetic gloves :D
Great advice. Thanks
Good to know! Cheers
The Heat Company are my favorites after many trials. The Merino liners are my everyday glove. I use a shell if it is going to be very cold. Great gloves.
I also went with the Heat Company with 2 layers: Wind Pro Liner with touch sensitive fingers and the Mittens as 2nd layer. Works like a charm. The Polartec material of the quite thick liner is actually pretty great!
I have the Vallerette gloves and the overmitts that go over the gloves that have the full finger part that flips back with the same magnets. The waterproof zipper for the mitts is awesome. The mitt /glove combo I have are the warmest my hands have been in super cold -30C weather other than military mitts that I wore in the army reserves in the 1980s.
Thanks for honest review and pretty much my findings. The advantage with the wooden mitten type isn’t just the wool but they force the fingers together so they sort of warm each other whereas the others keep the fingers separated by the material and won’t warm
My experience exactly. I’ve added the Merino wool liners to my Vallerret gloves and gotten good results. Nothing beats mittens however when it gets really cold.
I agree with mittens. I watched a hiking vid many years ago and they recommended mittens as your fingers rubbing/touching each other creates additional heat.
I am playing with Vallerret gloves and mittens. I am finding it difficult to wear liners under the gloves. The thumb in particular is very tight. Have you found the same? tx
Interesting topic on gloves Mads, When I was looking about 18months ago there was little on the web apart from Vallerette. However, what I think gets overlooked is waterproofness as it's all very well having nice warm gloves when the weather is bone dry but if we are out in cold wet weather/snow it's easy for gloves to become wet and most gloves won't be any good then. I bought a pair of Sealskinz gloves that are similar to the Vallerette in that they let you free the thumb and forefinger (pointy finger😉) but they are roughly half the price of Vallerette and waterproof. They do have similar magnet issues as the Vallerette though. They have mitten versions and liners etc now. Thanks for all your work over the year, your channel is one of the 3 I make a point of always watching as you speak sense and have no pretensions. Not having to skip over Squarespace adverts every video is also a real bonus! Have a great Christmas.
beautiful images to finish off another great year of following you Mads, you really have set the bar high with both the quality of your images, your storytelling and your videos. Wishing you and your family a peaceful christmas and as always look forward in anticipation to seeing what awaits you in the new year
And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to you too!
I like my “The Heat Company” gloves. Although the system wouldn’t be ideal for an expedition (heat pads are a big part in extreme cold), they work very well for a night of astrophotography or a few hours of landscape photography.
I second these. Brought my heat company gloves to Alaska during the winter (-18F, -28C) and had no issues with the cold. The liners aren't the most waterproof so if the snow is wetter or occasionally rainy like on my recent Scotland trip you might have to dry them at the end of the day
Very helpful review of the gloves, I agree, Mads, that wool is the way to go. I have a pair of Valleret gloves but I also got their merino wool liners that help provide additional warmth. I still use those chemical shake and heat packets (Hot Hands) and slip them into the palm of my hands. I can curl my fingers back into the gloves when I am waiting on a shot. It works. Thank you for a year of excellent videos. Glædelig jul, Mads!
Merry Christmas, Mads! And thank you for all the good stuff on this chanel!
Merry Christmas Mads! Thanks for all your work. It helps us!
Merry Christmas Mads! Thank for all you do!
Moon shots are gorgeous, thank you
I got my new vallerrett gloves last week and I have to say that they are not bad. I agree with you about the magnets not quite sticking together always but they do say that the lining of the gloves is merino wool. I live in a Mediterranean country so we don’t really get very cold weather like up north where you are based, but they kept my fingers warm during a cold spell of weather we recently had. At around 4-5 C they did reasonably well. The lack of dexterity on the exposed fingers was something to be expected though. 😃
Thank you Mads for a great review and a years worth of inspirational work, and fun. I wish you and your family a great Christmas and hope Santa is really good to you all...
Thank you! Finally a Real honest review on winter gloves for Photography. Really appreciate it!
Merry Christmas Mads and thanks for all your great videos.
Interesting video. I've always struggled with finding gloves that will actually keep my hands warm when not in activity. My conclusion is - particularly when getting older with less efficient circulation - that gloves dont work. At least when the gloves are small enough to be able to operate the camera without removing them. Totally agree that wool works best, but it's not enough in real cold.
I find that mittens work much better than gloves as the area exposed to the cold with four fingers together is much smaller than with individual fingers. Mittens pretty much rules out using the camera without removing them or at least removing the part that covers the fingers like on the pair you showed. My current preference is using wool liners/super thin wool gloves and mittens that I remove just for operating the camera. I've got several pairs of mittens ranging from fairly warm to just thin and water- and or wind proof. I can also combine the wool liners with gloves when the temperature and/or activity level allow it.
Thanks for great info about the gloves, nice photos in the end. 👌
Merry christmas, Mads! And thank you for the info!
Interesting, I thought I was the only one with sensitive hands. Yes wool is the best except when they get wet. I use the 3 layer system of The Heat Company. Works fine for me after trying so many gloves.
Simply do layers with gloves too. I have very thin Merino wool gloves and thick mittens as hard shell. When i need to operate camera i take out my hand of mitten and use it with thin Merino wool gloves. It's not that really warm but better then with bare skin... and also pushing buttons takes few sec and after is just waiting where you keep your hands toasty in mittens 😸 also wool is good for skin cuz it's will stilmulate blood flow that's why new born babies been put on with wool tiny socks 🧦
Love your honest and enthusiastic approach - those moon images are beautiful.
Love the review - open, honest, practical and very down to earth - thanks Mads.
I've come to the same conclusion about the gloves. I have some Vallerette gloves with the magnets and some woollen mittens that fold back with Velcro to reveal fingerless gloves. The cheap woollen mittens win every time for warmth and convenience.
Serkan günes said something about keeping warm in a video(cant remember witch one) but layer up if you wil keep warm. Use mittons when standing stil and have fingergloves inside to use whit the camera. Hestra is a good brand for outdor handwear. You can also use hanwarmers at the pulse rather than the top of the hand. An right cloting around the torso.
Thanks. Merry christmas too.
Great review Mads! I did some research on photography gloves last year before going into Swedish Lapland to photograph the aurora and I ended up getting a merino liner with touchscreen sensitivity to go under a wind stopper pullover glove, both from Hestra. The combination worked pretty well for me during my trip but I did have handwarmers in my pockets to reach for every once in a while. I agree with you that wool is the way to go!
Thanks 😊 and Merry Christmas 🎄😊
I live in the Canadian North. We routinely deal with winter temperatures in the minus thirties and forties. Gloves are pretty much useless when it's really cold. Mitts are the only way to go for me, and I agree with your comments about wool--it really is the best! To be honest, I have never found an ideal solution, although I also have a pair of flip mitts with the finger gloves inside, that are pretty serviceable. That said, my favourite hand coverings are a pair of homemade wool mitts. Pull them off. Do your settings fast, and get them back on. It's a compromise, but it works. Cheers for the video.
You got snow ❄️ how lucky are you you.
Thanks for sharing your time and photos again Mads
Have a really great Christmas
A warning on gloves with magnets in the finger tips.. Magnets are metal. Metal gets really really really cold in freezing temps. This makes your fingers colder. I've carefully removed the magnets in gloves I have.
That being said, I like my meteor mitts by Outdoor research. Mainly I just use the fleece flip-top finger mitten liner that come with them and wear a thin liner like the OR Sensor gloves. Both have a pocket on the back of the hand for handwarmers and I can also drop a set in the tips of the mitts if needed. This is the best solution I've found for work at 10 to -20f and I've learned to work most of my camera functions without having to take off the liners.
Love the moon pictures. Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year.
Merry Christmas! And many thanks for all that you have shared with us over the years. Happiness for you and your family in the New Year!
In the early 90’s I had a photo assignment in Antarctica at McMurdo Station and the South Pole. A photojournalist friend of mine that worked in Minnesota gave me the best advice for keeping my hands and fingers warm when shooting in extremely cold weather. You start by putting on thin glove liners, then put on the wool fingerless gloves with the flap. Then, the trick is to place a small hand warmer pack into the flap. When you need to shoot you peel back the flap, the glove liners will protect your fingertips, and when you are done shooting put the flap back over your fingers and the hand warmer will warm up your fingertips. When I wasn’t actively shooting I would put wear cold weather mittens on over the wool gloves and liner.
This glove setup saved my hands and fingers for the 12 days I spent in Antarctica. In 1993 we didn’t have digital cameras so I was shooting color transparency film. In sub-zero temperatures changing a roll of film could take a very long time leaving your fingertips exposed. First, you have to rewind the film very, very slowly to avoid getting static marks on your film. Then you have to pop out the roll, move it to the exposed film pocket, retrieve a new roll, thread the leader into the sprocket, close the back and advance the film to the first frame. It seems simple but doing it a - 38 ˚, it is painstakingly slow.
I wish you a Merry Merry Christmas, Mads.
Thanks Mads for sharing your beautiful images,tips and tricks on landscape photography over the past 12 months it has been great following your channel and looking forward to 2022. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Hi Mads. I couldn’t agree more about the gloves. I have the first type you showed and they are good down to say 3 degrees and below that, i.e. the whole winter, my fingers freeze. I have found that adding a second layer using the internal layer of my old snowboard gloves works wonders, but of course I have to pull it off every time I need to press a button. As for the photos, what can i say … great! The person makes the difference in the first one.
Hi Mads. Thank you for this review. I've never been tempted by specific "photography" gloves. I've always relied on traditional outdoor brands like Mountain Equipment or RAB. They've never let me down and definitely pass the test when standing around for long periods. Wishing you a very happy Christmas.
Beautiful photos Mads!
Valleret gloves do have merino wool on the inside apparently, but I wonder if they have them inside the fingertips. Thank you Mads, you have just saved me a lot of money. I have a pair of thin liners with touch screen pads on, not great for winter but ok for Autumn, in the U.K., plus the not only do the touch screen pads work but they cost literally nothing, or they did last time I bought them as the two pairs I have bought only cost £2.49. My biggest issue is size, my hands are small but worse part being short fingers and due to my various health issues I feel the cold really badly.
Mittens have always been my favorite way to keep my hands warm in Winter, gloves separate your fingers and they have to keep themselves warm, but mittens keep the fingers together and they help warm each other within the mitten. Sometimes for dexterity, I'll wear a thin glove inside a mitten, I can take the mitten off and use the glove and put the mitten back on. I love leather mittens with a wool lining = warm hands. :)
Merry Christmas to you too, Mads! And thanks for your always awesome videos and contents. All the best from Italy.
I use The Heat Company gloves. Its perfect
Happy Holidays Mads… Thank you for your continuous inspiration.
I'm with you with those kind of wool gloves. I have normal button for the hood and the thumb folds open as well. Velcro is honestly quite bad design choice for the hood but you can always sew magnets to the hood (under a piece of fabric) and another one on the back of the glove. You can find those kind of gloves in most super markets and also in fishing equipment stores with different thicknesses and hood attachment styles. I have relatively thin ones and I add liner gloves under them when it gets cold enough.
Merry Christmas to you and your family Mads.
I agree 100% about the Vallerret photography gloves. My fingers freeze in them. They're totally useless if you're looking to keep your hands warm. Better off with a pair of fingerless gloves and mittens to put over them. It's quicker and you can recover the warmth more easily.
The glove struggle is real. Thanks for sharing. The moon photos are gorgeous!
Tx Mads!
I discovered the fingerless glove with mitten flaps years ago in Canada. The style has been my go-to for cold weather ever since .
I find that the polypro fleece products work as well if not better than wool. Washable, dries faster than wool, won't shrink, and more durable. Consider looking at some of the 'mountaineering or ice climbing' brands. Some models are fine for photography.
For overnight winter wear, I use a thin liner glove with good finger accuracy (to push buttons without skin sticking to the metal/plastic) under a polypro 'finger mitten'. And if the weather is very sub-zero, I overlay that with a thick waterproof and lined outer mitten that has a zipper in the palm so I can stick my fingers and thumb out of it when I need to work the camera.
I can put a hand warmer in between the outer 2 layers if needed.
Not quite 'Vogue' but works for me.
Have a great Christmas Mads, thank you for all your entertaining and instructive videos 😊
Mads, as an added bonus for wool. Wool will continue to insulate even wet and dries quickly. Good subject, enjoyed.
I was having trouble looking for a good gloves for winter photography and didnt want to overpay for those expensive gloves. Thanks Mad for this very helpful video. Wool it is. 😊
Cold fingers are a struggle. Our winters in the Pacific Northwest aren’t really that cold, seldom below 0 C in the city areas, but we are very damp in the winter making it feel cold.
I have experienced poor build quality as well on some. I am considering some battery powered motorcycle gloves. I would have to take them off completely to use the camera but I would be able to rapidly warm my hands.
Absolutely gorgeous! Love the full moon and just everything! Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year to you and your family!🌲🎅🏼⛄️🎊🎉💛
Very useful information, thanks!
I don't spend a lot of time outdoors in the winter, but I do like to photograph the mountains when it snows. I've had lots of gloves over the years, but my favorites for photography are still a pair of Lowepro gloves that I've had for years. They are thick enough to afford a little warmth, but thin enough to handle the camera controls. They also have some sort of pebbling on the palm side that assures a good grip. My other gloves are warmer, or waterproof, or have some sort of way to expose fingertips, but I still prefer my Lowepro gloves. Happy holidays to you and your family.
Very timely. I'm taking stock of current gear in prep for an Iceland trip in Feb and was considering those Ipsoot gloves. I needed to be reminded of the point about wool. I have some thin, cheap, wool gloves I bought in Amsterdam that I now recall are warmer than some of my heavier/thick gloves. Thanks. Also noticed you had two different gloves on in the last part, which I do a lot too.
Beautiful moon images, Mads. You have been a real inspiration to my photography during the year. I love your down to earth approach. Happy Christmas to you and I look forward to more videos next year.
You are correct about wool. Nothing better than wool socks! Coarse wool is better than merino if you are not the sensitive type.
I use nylon over-mits with a fake wool lining with wool fingerless gloves underneath.
I use some real cheap fold back mittens with a foldback thumb also. Made from polyester but I find them pretty warm. Quick and easy to fold back is the key Thanks for the vid
Merry Christmas, thanks for the advice about wool. I have never found a pair of gloves that really kept my hands warm, but growing up wool mittens always worked.
Thank you for both the recommendation and demystification.
I do a lot of my photography when out cycling. I wear thin gloves which I can operate the camera. Big gloves over the top. Works for me.
Great review! I bought some “fishing” gloves in neoprene, maybe 15 € (on Black Friday), they have three fingers that you can flip up, they are thin, waterproof and really warm. I was quite surprised, haven’t had them for long but did test them during a snowstorm a while back. I’m happy with them, I have arthritis in my hands so warmth is a must for my hands to be able to work. Haven’t tried standing still for a longer time, when I was working with my hands it got so warm I even was sweating, but I still recommend them. Bought mine from Happy Angler. Beautiful picture at the end!
Thank you Mads!
Merry Christmas! Great video because I've tried many, many, many gloves and mittens. My hands easily get cold. I've given away so many gloves and mittens failing to keep my hands warm. I've tried battery glove inserts with limited success. One problem I find, I need XL sized gloves and mittens. I've tried on many brands proclaiming they're XL sized finding they're tight. If I find a larger I size XXLthey're tight. I do own the Vallets and somewhat good while walking. Standing around like us forget about it! I carry Black Diamond mittens and a thin liner which just fits in the mittens. The only problem, bulky mittens and difficult to handle a tripod. I watched a video recently and a lady from Vermont her in the US suggested getting a soft tip stylus to choose your LCD buttons. The only drawback, holding the stylus with heavy gloves and finding it in your pocket. Love your moon photos.
When I was mountaineering in winter I always used sheepskin mittens and always had warm hands. Some inner gloves with sheepskin mittens could do the trick and some string on the mittens from one hand to the other around the shoulders would keep then secure.
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
Thank you, Mads, for the useful glove rundown. I changed my mind as to what I'll get now. Merry Christmas to you and your family. I love the moon photos, too; really nice.
merry xmas ,,great content look forward to more .
Merry Christmas to you from Michigan, USA!
Don't quite get the complaints about the Valleret gloves, I've got their liners, the Tinden gloves. and the Arctic mitts, and if your hands are cold you are probably not wearing them as a system where you add another layer as it gets colder, also when in the extreme cold not moving around much I utilize the small zippered compartments for adding Little Hotties handwarmer packets, haven"t been cold yet. It's much like people complaining about getting cold feet in their high dollar leather boots when I'm warm wearing heavy socks, wool liners, and canvas mukluks, plus I carry some cardboard to shoots where I know I'll be standing still for a long time. You'd be surprised what a difference standing on cardboard makes. All together winter photography is a learnt skill, and learning how to stay warm is lesson number one!
Vallerat have produced some Merino Wool liners for their gloves with touch screen finger pads on the fingers exposed. They work really well to keep your hands/fingers warm.
If you know anyone who can knit or have that kinda skill set, commission them to make some trigger mitts with the finger and thumb able to fold. If you’re out in the cold often it’s worth the cost
Merry Christmas, I do appreciate an honest review. I guess that mystery of wool/merino gloves is that let the moisture go out which in temperature under zero °C makes your hands freeze. Btw I do like remote control which allows you to keep at least one hand in your pocket. I have to say that even the non-original version of Sony RMT-P1BT from JJC works well.
Love how you say “wool” and why is it so hard for companies to realize wool is king for cold and wet weather. I have a pair of wool mittens like yours and they too have their issues but seem to be the warmest ones I have that are still handy for photography. Merry Christmas to you and your family Mads 😀
Thats my gripe with so much gear aimed specifically at photographers. So much stuff "designed to be used in the outdoors" that seems to be built by people who have no idea about anything outdoors related and just make a product that looks pretty
My grandma knitted mittens for us when we were kids. I was an outdoors kid, I wore granmas mittlens all the time. She sewed different designs and colors and we got them around Christmas time from Minnesota. I always looked forward to getting a new pair. I could be a vain teenager, but I knew what worked in Alaska.
@@Jeff-jg7jh Jeff, we used wool mittens, shirts, pants, socks, hats.. I am in the northeaster U.S. where it gets (got) cold and that's what we used to keep us warm even when wet. It seemed to keep you warm and wick away moisture at the same time. I wore buffalo check pants and coat most of my childhood and could stay out all day in them. I also agree with @Atooch as well... take a look at what the Inuit wore for their warm clothes, made of animal skins, caribou I think, not man made materials.
Perfect timing Mads, was looking to head to German alps in a few days and was in need of some gloves. Thank you. Also Merry Christmas to you sir, and I hope I can do another workshop with you.. had an amazing time and again. Thank you.
Wear a pair of wool fingerless gloves inside the ones with the removable thumb and index finger, your hands will be way warmer and hopefully the heat will travel up to your finger ends.
Thank you. I have the same issues with the Vallerret gloves. I'll try some flip flops. Merino sounds good as they will stay warm even when wet
-15C here this morning in S/E Finland. I went out for a couple of hours to take photos this morning and my fingertips are still stinging eight hours later. I wish I could find good gloves also! Now I'm going to have to go hunting for fliptop woollen mittens, cos I can't keep doing this! 🤣
Merry Christmas!
i bought a pair from the Big Hardware store here in the US. Mechanix(cool X). They fell apart in one week. I think they were sewed with recycaled spider web. Spider web is tougher. It was polyester. It's the fore finger.
I find that mittens keep my hands warmer than gloves so I'm not surprised by your recommendation. Thanks for saving me from buying the expensive gloves. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Here's my tip guys, these Sealskinz all weather sporting gloves are excellent. However, they're a small fit and make sure you order one size up. I'm large and ordered extra large which fit perfectly. They're warm and waterproof. I have two pairs of Vallaret gloves and in my opinion, they're not worth the money, they are not waterproof and in fact absorb water worse than any gloves I've ever tried, my mid weight pair are coming apart at the seams after less than 18 months use.
I use a pair of Field Pro Hunting Gloves by Hoggs of Fife (I am not a hunter and I do not own a gun) which my wife bought me to try with a camera. They do work as the face of the index finger and thumb are of thinner material and you can feel the buttons and dials on the camera. I do not think they would work on camera touch screens. They are lined and I find them very warm, however I have not tried them in condition you find in Iceland or Faroe Islands! I live in the Scottish Borders where they work fine.
Thanks for the review.
I am looking for a drone piloting gloves. In that case, you have very little movement of your fingers so the heat produced is also low. When you have no heat to keep, no amount of insuation will help you getting warmer, since there is not enough warmth in your hands at some point of time.
Therefore I am looking for electrically heated gloves that produce heat. Not to make your hands hot but just to add a little when needed.
Gloves have to be:
* thin enough in the area of the inner surface of palm. Wool kr down infill is not fitting;
* not slippery and covered of rubber in the inner area of fingers. Handling your remote or camera with wool gloves is almost like having your hands greased.
* the tip of the thum and pointing finger MUST be free. Touchscreen friendly covering wont help since I need to feel my sticks perfectly. Otherwise Its like playing a guitar with gloves
If you have some idea, please share it here :)
That was a disappointingly useful video. Thanks for the honest review!
I know that many of these brands have other gloves available as well, some with dedicated liners.
The gloves that I now have are Heatsavers, and they're very warm and comfortable, made from some wool-like material, but I can't use them for everything when shooting and when I take them off, I'd like to have something like some thin liners!
Merry Christmas!
Great review, Mads! Nice moonset shot, too. One standard tip. With a very low contrast scene and a lot of light in the sky, this is a really bad time to leave the lens hood off your zoom telephoto, at least if you want any detail at all in your shadows.
I have a pair of "mittens" like the wool ones you show (but not wool) that I picked up rather inexpensively on amazon. The thumb folds back and holds in place with a magnet (which as another commenter said will mess with anything with a built in compass). The main part also folds back to reveal the other four fingers which I usually just have my pointer finger sticking out of.
I was just going to buy gloves for photography! Thank you for making this video
Hi
Would be good if you can test the gloves from Heat Company
Fedt nævnte det her sidste vinter, men desværre i slutningen af den kolde tid. Tak for at du fik det gjort i god tid til i år :) mange tak Mads :)
Layers are still the key. I hate to admit how many pairs of gloves I have - in Hawaii!
Merry Christmas from Lancashire, UK.
Thanks Mads. I agree on the Wool, although I use a polar fleece (polyester) version of the fingerless mittens, they work well unless there is wind. In general mittens will work better to keep fingers warm than gloves. I found it funny that for your moon shots at the end you were wearing the wool mitten on your right hand and a glove on your left hand. Merry Christmas to you too, thanks for all the great videos, look forward to your videos in 2022.
have a merry christmas and a joyous yule
Mad's, firstly happy Christmas to you and your girlfriend, I hope we may bump into your both in the UK next year 🤔 Those boulders in your garden bring a new meaning to the word gravel (or shingle) that normally runs down the side of your house 😋 And did you loose some gloves in the video, as at the end, you thought sod it, I'll wear one mitten and one Vallerret? 😏... A couple of recommendations for you... Icebreaker do a merino liner glove that's excellent (even when wet or cold and on it's own) and Rab do a light weight pertex mitten (Xenon), though both clearly no good for photography, but a good combination for keeping your hands warm...As you touched on gloves don't work, not enough heat circulation, mittens are the best every time. Oh.... and 'sew' in the UK sounds like 'So' 😛-- But with all seriousness, all the best and keep up the good work 👍
I can recommend Mammut Shelter Gloves with Gore Windstopper.