Mitten's

I have always said that red mittens are the warmest.  These have some red on them and black mittens are the second warmest so these are OK.  The important thing is that I can get my fingers out so I can work the buttons on my camera. I have taken photos in temperatures as low as -20.  Yes that is twenty degrees below zero. I don’t like being outside in that kind of weather but if I didn’t take photos in the brutal cold none of the photos I have taken in the last few days would exist.

The specifications for my camera indicate that it should be operated in an environment where the temperature is between 32 and 104  Fahrenheit.   The only problems I have had shooting at lower temperatures is frozen hands and feet and a very short battery life on both camera and photographer. The trick is to use two batteries.  When I take one battery out I can warm it up by putting it in my pocket and it recharges and can be used again. In sub zero weather I get 15 to 20 shots from a battery. Under optimum operating conditions I can get as many as 500 shots on one battery.  I try to keep the camera warm, and some of the shots I get I take from my car.

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