During our trip to Ethiopia we captured lots of great video - and none of it was with big expensive equipment. Pure Digital, Inc. makes the Flip Video camera that is easy to use and affordable.

Features:

• Small
• Built-in USB connection
• Creates "clips" for each time you record
• Less than $150 (check amazon)
• Comes in various colors

For those PC users out there - this is a good tutorial on getting started. Windows Movie Maker comes with most installations of Microsoft Windows XP and above.

Windows Movie Maker Basics from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo.

For those of you that are using a Macintosh to create a video, the following tutorial walks you through iMovie...

A service called Vimeo has some really great how-to videos on how to easily make videos for the web. 

Intro to making a video with a basic camera...