I shot stills for many years and then began to do video for television news. At the beginning I had both cameras and tried to shoot both still and video for a year or two. While the video camera was rolling capturing the events unfolding before me I would think "that would have been a great photo", but I had to let the camera run for many seconds so that moment went past. While shooting stills - I thought, I need to get this on video I am missing this! Since TV paid more it made sense to concentrate on that. My stills became static overview shots of scenes that anyone who was present could have shot, that was discouraging, it most likey is frustrating for other photographers who will constantly think of what they could or should have done in one medium or the other. We second guess ourselves enough already!

I do not believe that anyone can do the best work and present anything more than the basic "we were there and this is what it looked like" photojournalism when trying to shoot both video and stills at the same time.

This may be ok for small newspapers, but the results of one or both will most likely be mediocre at best, after all photographers are still equipped with only two hands, two eyes and one visual brain!