Help me buy a video camera

[TTChamp]

I want to buy a video camera, but I have no clue. Here is some background info:

1. I intend to use it several times a year for family visits/trips.

2. No one will likely see these videos but family and friends so high quality images are not that important.

3. I do want to take the camera on trips so size, weight and convinience are very high priorities. I doubt I would use a camera that was remotely difficult to carry around.

4. I have very little patience to edit video so I want something that records in such a way that I don't have to do very much to get the video into a watchable format.

5. Price is not a major stumbling block, but I'm only going to use this thing occasionally so I don't want to spend top of the line money.

Thanks in advance OOT.


Edited becase I suck at posting images.
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[astroglide]

if i were to buy a camcorder it would be a jvc everio (large drive version). they're about a grand. i think it's retarded to record to arbitrary tape types when they're effectively useless for me. i never watch anything on these tapes, it's either going to be on a pc movie or a dvd i've made. tapes are just middle-men for the data that i have to buy and deal with them wearing out.

[TTChamp]

So it records directly onto a DVD or a disk that you USB to the PC right? I thought that was what all camcorders do now.

[astroglide]

it records to an internal hard drive in the camcorder itself. the rest of the market records to some form of removable media.

[4_2_it]

cnet.com is your friend (http://reviews.cnet.com/Camcorders/2001-6500_7-0.html?tag=cnetfd.dir)