Panasonic tape in a sony deck?

I shot footage on Panasonic tape (miniDV) in a Panasonic AGDVX100. Will I have playback difficult in a SONY deck - specifically DSR11 or DSR40? I am outputting via firewire from one of those decks to a DSR 45 - dubbing from DV to DVCAM.
if so, do I need to acquire the shooting camera to output.
(shot at 29.97 NDF) (and some DF)
thank you!

Folks,
thanks for your answers regarding the mixing different brand stock/decks...
Nelson --
Thanks for your totally ridiculous question. Yes, of course... I shot at DF and NDF because I thought that would make things easier in editing.
My DXV100 malfunctioned a couple time during the course of shooting 60 hours of documentary footage in some pretty dusty environments, and miraculous slipped into DF somehow mid-tape on a rare occassion, despite a setting of NDF. It's hard to get your camera repaired when your in a 3rd world country in South America.

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