Living here in Minnesota snow and cold weather is a way of life for 6 months of the year. I have done a search of this forum and it appears the is no easy way to shoot when the weather is below 32. People have talked about keeping their camera in their coat and bringing it out for a few minutes at a time. I am an avid cross country skier and I would love to shoot some of the winter scenes. I keep some gear in a back back when I go but I imagine that would not be warm enough for the camera. Then there is always the problem with condensation when you are bringing it back in. Any help would be appreciated.

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A couple things came to mind when you mentioned shooing in the cold. The first was, "He better bring some extra batteries". The cold will prevent the chemicals in the Lithium batteries from properly doing their job and thus battery life is usually cut very short when temps are at or below freezing.

...So you need to keep your whole setup warm. My first idea was buying an under-water housing for the camera ( a plastic shell made for some cams that allows the cam to be submerged in water), and put some of those handwarmers in the housing. Then the whole setup would stay warm. Then realizing that underwater hosuings are usually expensive, I though you could just tape a tight plastic bag around the cam (leaving enough room to keep proper access to the buttons) and put the hand warmers in that (many people will do the plastic bag trick when it rains). Just make sure those handwarmers don't get too hot, and that they don't give off some gas as they cool that could hurt electronics.