Panasonic HVX200: Return of the King 

respect the commitment to the bit

Servo mode is legit, crash zooms never looked so good, that's cinema, real cinema

Great camera and still is a industry standard in the skateboarding world!! I own both the hvx200 and its cooler brother hpx170, i got 200min in p2 cards 32gb and 64gb so no need for swapping and i love the mxf format on the cards never gets corrupt and is a tank. The global shutter is great but the original hvx200 is a bit weak in low light but the better hvx200a or hpx170 are quite good in low light. the bitrate is really impressive too it runs a 100 Mbps which is really great for an 20 year old camera, the gh4 runs on 200/100Mbps so it is still competitive even whit semi modern cameras. plus the hvx200 has great color space at 4:2:2 10bit which is even better then the gh4. the only down side to the hvx200 is its resolution on 1080-30p/720-60p there was a mod made by an american company that would give raw video whit 4:4:4 color at 12 bit but panasonic bought the company and shut it down i belive it was called hydra mod! the camera runs on linux so it should not be to hard to hack to be honest if anyone knows how to do that hit me up!

The New York scenes in Cloverfield were filmed with this camera. It still looks good.

Ah, I remember when this was a $5000 camera. Now they go for around $300 on ebay! I still have one from the old days, and I am thinking of using it as a teaching tool for kids (hard to find super cheap or older cameras that allow you to monitor audio with headphones). What I'm trying to figure out is if the SD card slot on the side actually works for recording video? If not, why would they include that?? I'm definitely not trying to deal with P2 cards in 2024, would rather go back to tapes lol. Great video, awesome to see someone so stoked on this camera!! Subscribed! :)

Yah.. 😂 I owned this camera, spent $2000 on a 2 gig p2 card.. I could only afford one.. 😂… now I wish I had never sold it but I needed money to get my Canon Xh-a1.. but also ran the red rock micro 35mm adapter with Canon FD lenses.. oh those were crazy days

Wow P2 takes me back. I remember going to a high end pro camera shop to buy a P2 camera for a production company I was working for back in 2008/9. We were moving away from tape and getting into the P2 card system. It was the pro model so about the size of a Sony F55 I guess and it was a great camera at that time. I didn't know they had this smaller hybrid card / tape version, it would have been a great B-Cam back then. BTW also noticed the channel's name change... you used to be Stronz or something like that right?

I miss swapping memory cards every 4 minutes. That's at least 30 - 60 shots in the music video I'm making.

You youngins don't know how good you have it now. Come back in time with me to 1997 when I first got into this business.

I bought her when she first launched, there’s also a frame rate hack and it did A LOT. Great cam. Sold it tho. I bought a FS700R 4K, a BMPCC OG, a BMPCC 6K Pro, and Sony PMW F55. I have all of them still.

On sale! April 1st only.

Where is the handle

Didn't this camera have a mod for it or did it never come to fruition? Think it was called Hydra maybe?

But does it make pancakes?

Does it shoot VLOG?

Wow😂

? April Fools to you too!

Not sure if making fun of poor video professionals or creating positive interest for people to put affordable old cameras to good use...