I have a Canon Elura 40MC, and it's pretty nice. It's light on battery life (30m) but the batteries are so small and cheap that you could carry 6 of them and not notice the difference. You can buy bigger aftermarket batteries that stick out just a bit more but have longer life.

The picture quality is excellent outside, and inside it's fairly good, but not super. I found it's hard to get a single CCD DV camcorder that takes good inside picture quality. The big selling point for mine is that it is TINY. It's about the size of my still digital camera (a Canon Powershot G1) and it's lighter in weight. I can easily fit this in with my camping gear, beach bag, etc. and not feel like a tool with it in my hand either. I compared this to the Sony PC101 and the Canon Optura 100MC and the price was right on the Elura 40. I got mine on eBay new for $640, then got a $100 rebate from Canon.