The Man and I went shopping BRIEFLY on the day after Thanksgiving (I can’t really bring myself to call it ‘Black Friday’).

At first, we thought we wanted to see all the craziness…we got into a Best Buy parking lot…there were shennanigans about a parking space…we left to see a movie without going into any stores. We figured some crazy chick wagging her finger at us over a space that wasn’t “hers” and that we weren’t going to park in was “crazy” enough. After the movie, we went to a more remote Best Buy and checked out some of the specials.

That was when I first laid eyes on the Insignia® – 5.0MP High-Definition Digital Camcorder with 3″ Swivel LCD Screen for $99. Since The Man is so in the know regarding nearly everything technology, I asked him to take a look at the camera. He hadn’t heard anything about it except that it was Best Buy’s house brand. He did some cursory searching on the internet in the the store, but didn’t find much. We left without purchasing the camcorder, but that’s the moment I started wanting the camcorder. My digital camera can capture video…but it’s kind of cumbersome and certainly not up to 720p high definition. I had been thinking about the Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder, but was really turned off by the only memory being internal. So, this Insignia really peeked my interest b/c of the internal memory AND secure digital high capacity memory card slot. Unfortunately, the Insginia camera went back up to $149 after “Black Friday”. For a few weeks I pined…then I finally caved and purchased. Interestingly enough, a few days after I caved the price went down again. The Man noticed this when we were shopping for a SDHC card. Fortunately, Best Buy has a price matching/price guarantee policy and they were happy to pull up my original receipt and refund me the price difference (we didn’t have the receipt on hand b/c we didn’t go into the store knowing that the camera was now on sale…I think generally they ask you to bring in your original receipt). We also got a great price on a SanDisk Ultra 8GB Secure Digital High Capacity Memory Card for $34.99.

Here’s my first “HD” video with the new toy –

EXCITING HUH?!?!

I was inspired to record us walking into to Target by iJustine’s tweet about getting kicked out of target for filming…but I didn’t actually take any video IN Target.

So far, I’m pretty impressed with this toy. (Especially considering the price!) I will have to post an actual “interesting” video…but I have yet to captured one – being busy with finishing beauty school, work, holidays, etc. OH, and it’s probably important to note that it wasn’t exactly “plug and play” with my Mac. I did some research and this guy’s review really helped me a lot – and now I can edit the files in iMovie HD.