Shooting Twice, at Once

Shooting Twice, at Once

Doug Mills has come up with a simple but strangely elegant solution for shooting video and stills simultaneously.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/shooting-twice-at-once/

When shooting stills and video simultaneously, Doug Mills, a staff photographer in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, has tried a creative trick or two. He once strapped the video camera around his neck, using his stomach to hold it in place. The results, he said, were “freewheeling and dangling and very difficult to work with.”