A Cheap Portable Video Camera?

[PHiuR]

Anyone know of any good video cameras...say...under 600 that is portable and records decent quality videos. Good Image quality to 800pixels or so?

 

[Fardringle]

What do you consider to be portable? Fits in a shirt or pants pocket, or fits in a woman's purse, or just light weight?

Do you have a preference for media type? DV tape, DVD, hard disk, etc?

 

[jpeyton]

Can't you pick up a Canon HD camcorder for $750-ish? Why not jump to full 1080p24?

 

[PHiuR]

The dimensions should be about the size of a hand, the weight doesn't matter at all.

Media type? Doesn't matter, do they make any good cameras that takes solid-state memory?