Fat Panda

Hello,

A friend of mine is looking to start a vblog, he wants to record video and post it to his blog. I already have a great wordpress plugin that works awesome using .flv videos.

What I now need is this, can someone please recommend a decent camera that he can record his videos on and transfer them to his computer with little hastle. Then I think he'll need some good software to convert his recorded video to .flv....what is the best out there?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks