Cold-Weather Camera Survival: A Finnish Photographer's 3-Step System That Actually Works

Cold-Weather Camera Survival: A Finnish Photographer's 3-Step System That Actually Works

I live in Denver, which means I’m not exactly shooting in Finnish tundra conditions. But Colorado winters are no joke either, and I’ve had my share of moments where a camera started acting weird mid-shoot because I yanked it out of a warm car into 10-degree air. Fogged lenses, sluggish shutters, batteries that dropped from 80% to dead in twenty minutes. If you’ve shot in serious cold, you know the specific kind of dread that comes with watching your camera struggle.