Very thin, warm gloves for winter shooting

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Can anyone recommend extremely thin, yet still fairly warm, gloves for shooting in winter? Everything's white here and soon my fingerless glove liners won't do the job anymore...
 
Real silk motorcycle glove inners are the best compromise I've found. They don't feel all that warm until you take 'em off and realize how much worse things would have been without 'em.

Cheers,

R.
 
As suggested by others, try the sports stores. I have a pair of liner gloves that is supposed made of metallic threads and is silver in colour. Supposedly they reflect your body heat to keep the hands warm. They certainly work for me. For most winter activities, I wear a pair of heavy mitts on top. For photography, I usually wear just a pair of light mitts. The only problem is that in recent years I don't seem to see similar gloves displayed in stores.
 
You could try these:http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3080244
It would mean going to the mall, sorry!
What I use are a pair of Kimberly-Clark "Kleen Guard" gloves under my regular gloves. They aren't especially warm but for the short time I have the heavy gloves off they work out fine. And they are coated on the palm and fingers with some rubbery stuff so they are not slippery. I get 'em through my work but have seen them at Lowe's and the like.
Rob
EDIT: these gloves:
http://www.boss-safety.com/kimberly-clark-gloves-c-1874.html
 
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Do anyone know where to get hold of these pilot gloves that jet fighter pilots use? They are very well suited to delicate handling in cold weather, - but impossible to get hold of.
 
I want gloves woven from the hair of Tibetan mountain goats and a Leica sign embroidered in the back with golden thread.

I think I deserve better gloves than those $2 tight-fitting woolen gloves that i buy from the local stores and keep in my camera back because i always lose them.
 
Maybe you can clip the gloves to a cord that runs across your shoulders and down each sleeve.
Cotton gardening gloves never seem very warm, but there are lots of tightly-woven synthetics at outdoor stores and mail order places like Cabelas that won't break the piggybank.
 
I recommend some thin Kangaroo leather gloves. Very durable, warm and soft. I use them for motorcycling (with shielding) but you can get them thinner and more flexible for other applications (like shooting & bicycling), too.
 
Roger Hicks said:
Sorry to be vulgar, but perhaps if everything is white, you also need warmer underpants, not just warmer gloves.
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Those I already have! I've lived in upstate NY for years. I haven't done much winter photography though, so now I just need more flexible gloves, that will allow me to operate a camera comfortably...in the past I was satisfied with bulkier ones.
 
mabelsound said:
Those I already have! I've lived in upstate NY for years. I haven't done much winter photography though, so now I just need more flexible gloves, that will allow me to operate a camera comfortably...in the past I was satisfied with bulkier ones.
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Where are you?

Frances was born in Rochester and grew up in Hilton.

She remembers listening to the weather forecasts as a little girl and niting that it was often colder in Rochester than in Anchorage, Alaska. Then there was the time her older sister and her husband came to dinner, and were snowed in for two weeks.

She also remembers sitting on the fence singing 'California Here I come' when she was 5 -- and moving there 12 years later, without any regrets. That's a SERIOUSLY cold part of the world.

Cheers,

R.
 
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