Check out the steve’s digicams review of the Sanyo Xacti C5, a tiny solid state video camera. You can get these for just under $400 if you import them. This would be perfect for my hikes with Soolin, especially if I could find a way to head mount the thing and do a ‘First Person Hiker’ cam thing. It records for about an hour per battery charge, saves out to mpeg4, connects via USB so you can dump the video onto your computer for editing, and is tiny, it will fit in your shirt pocket. I’ve been watching this class of camera for a couple of years now. This is the first worthwhile device to come out. I’d need to get at least one spare battery and a couple of 1GB SD cards to store the video on, adding about $200 to the final cost, but for $600 I could be fully equipped to shoot a couple of hours of video while I’m out in the field. This goes onto my list of stuff I want once I can pull together the money for it.