Not off topic at all, from the horses mouth: http://lucasfilm.com/star-wars-episode-1-the-phantom-menace
ONE SEQUENCE FROM THE PHANTOM MENACE — A NIGHTTIME SCENE IN WHICH QUI-GON TAKES A SAMPLE OF ANAKIN’S BLOOD — WAS SHOT IN DIGITAL, MAKING IT THE FIRST FILM OF THIS SCALE TO UTILIZE THE NEW FORMAT.
Ive also read that some FX elements were shot in SD on a Canon XL1.