HVX in The Departed

Can anyone confirm if the last shot with the rat is actually HVX200? I'm just rather amazed as I saw that sucker on the big screen and I certainly didn't notice amidst all the clean 35mm stuff.
 
this is what it says regarding the hvx200:

Scorsese and Schoonmaker were ensconced in her editing room in New York, the set for the sequence had been struck, and Scorsese and Schoonmaker needed a particular “metaphorical piece” designed by Scorsese to fit with a particular musical bridge. They asked Legato to replicate the set and shoot the bit in Los Angeles. He responded not only by doing so, but by inviting them to remotely watch him film the sequence by transmitting a DV signal to a computer in New York using Apple iChat technology, then uploading the shots to an FTP site for Scorsese and Schoonmaker to instantly test with their cut and give input just minutes later.

Legato, for his part, calls the small team consisting of himself, Ames, and assistant editor Adam Gerstel, based out of the basement of his house in Pasadena, Calif., “a little lab” that permits Scorsese to try things out without spending much money. As he says, “I can shoot something myself on my still camera, or with my Panasonic HD [AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD P2] camera, and in the computer, make it look like it was filmed, and then match it to the other material. Marty grew comfortable with this approach, and I think it was a great burden lifted for him.”
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http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?p=582074

From Barry's first post...

In another interview with Mr. Legato, he said that there's actually a last-minute shot they had to get of a stand-in holding up a picture (in place of DiCaprio's character). There was no time, so they just used the HVX to film it, and it made it into the final cut.
 
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