#4 Panasonic HVX 200 - Top Ten Cameras of the Digital Age

Watch the full video here: Solid state media was not readily available to the masses around this time. The Panasonic HVX200 changed that. For the first time, one could record video solid state media, called a P2 Card, and in high definition! The original P2 cards were the ancestors to all the digital media that we use today: SD, CF, CFAST, and beyond. This camera was the Plymouth rock of our rental operations. HVX200s, and for that matter P2 cards, were always working. The image was good for a prosumer camera of that day. The menu was simple, the ergonomics were ok, but Panasonic was first to market. The twilight of digitizing your tapes could be seen, soon to be a relic, replaced by dragging and dropping digital files; however, the HVX200 could still shoot to tape. It was the perfect camera to transition from an old process to a new process. There was one immediate problem though: it was difficult to find a card reader to transfer the digital files from