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At ACT 2 CAM we believe in providing our students with the closest possible experience to working professionally in film and television.

The Panasonic HVX200 is an extremely versatile professional camera. High Definition footage with a frame the equivalent of cinematic film, the HVX200 is a cutting edge industry leader, giving unbelievably high quality footage. It has been used by a great many big names in film and television and, as you can see, our students love using it too!

With thanks to Barry Green of DVXuser, the following list will give you a taste of how widely used and well respected this camera is:

PANASONIC HVX200 usage

• Peter Jackson. Best Director for "The Lord Of The Rings".
• James Cameron. Best Director for "Titanic".
• Steven Soderbergh. Best Director for "Traffic".
• Francis Ford Coppola. Best Director for "The Godfather II".
• Clint Eastwood used HVX200s for beach-landing shots in "Letters From Iwo Jima".
• Rob Legato, Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor for "Titanic", used his own HVX200 in the making of Martin Scorsese's new gangster movie "The Departed".
• Kevin Smith. Sundance and Cannes and Independent Spirit winner.
• Venice and Berlin festival winner Brian DePalma used the HVX200 for portions of his film, "Redacted".
• Multiple-Emmy winner J.J. Abrams, producer of the $25 million Hollywood film "Cloverfield" used HVX200s on the film.
• Three-time Sundance winner Marc Singer.
• Michael Gondry, director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" uses HVX200.
• ASC-nominated cinematographer Laszlo George is using the HVX200 exclusively for 2nd-unit work on CW network's series "Reaper".
• Academy award winner Attila Szalay, DoP of "Reaper", used the HVX200 for portions of his television miniseries "Iron Road" starring Peter O'Toole and Sam Neill.
• Michael Single, Emmy-winner for "Antarctica: The End of the Earth: Iceberg" on "Nature" PBS, currently shooting with the HVX200 at the South Pole.
• Graham Leader, producer of "In The Bedroom" produced the new $1,000,000 feature film "Childless", starring Barbara Hershey and Joe Mantegna. It was shot entirely on the HVX200.
• Levie Isaacks, ASC ("Malcolm In The Middle", "Dawson's Creek") used the HVX200 for special insert shots in the feature-length film "Bring It On".
• Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series has used the HVX200 as well, for the episode "The Screwfly Solution" starring Elliot Gould and Jason Priestly.
• NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, researched all the available HDV cameras and HVX and picked the HVX200.
• JapanTV (Nippon Terebi) is using the HVX200 for field shooting.
• USA Network is using the HVX200 in their show "The 4400".
• Music video director Matt McDermitt (director of videos for The Backstreet Boys, etc) just used the HVX200 for a music video for Mike Patton (of Faith No More).
• Jarred Land's HVX200 was used for some greenscreen shots that were transferred to 35mm for inclusion in the middle-eastern theatrical release of Spielberg's five-Oscar-nominated "Munich"—http://imdb.com/title/tt0408306/
• Apple Inc and the Telluride Film Festival used HVX200s to podcast and document the 2006 Telluride Film Festival—http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=69749.
• Fox’s huge hit shows, "House" and "Boneyard", used the HVX200.
• The New York Film Academy use HVX200s for their film school.

The BBC used the HVX200 to shoot all their coverage of the 2006 and 2010 Olympics, the Fox network is using P2 exclusively at all network owned-and-operated stations, Raycom has over 85 HVX200s at their 21 television stations; NDTV (New Delhi TV), the largest private producer of news and entertainment in India uses several dozen HVX200s, New York 1 uses the HVX200 for all its one-person news crews (over 25 reporters), and several other major networks and broadcast groups are converting to P2 gear, such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, New Zealand's TV3, and several other members of the top 25-largest broadcast groups in America, including Cox, Nexstar (46 stations in 26 markets using P2 in 2006), Media General (20 stations), Sinclair Broadcast, Scripps Howard Broadcasting, and Liberty Corp (15 network stations).