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To the best of my knowledge, all Panny tapes are dry lube only.

From all I can find on the web that seems to be true... but for some reason I think I remember that Panasonic used to make an AMQ tape that was a wet lube.. but I could be wrong.

Yes.. firewire 400 will be fine for use with your new camera.
 
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