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What sort of camera are you looking for?
I got myself a compact camcorder. I'd expect any camcorder from a major manufacturer would be Mac Compatible. Anything with a media card you should be able to pull out the card put it in a card reader and drag the files off it. Once you've got the files off, its just a question of translating the file into something iMovie can understand, you can find a codec for a lot of formats, or VLC will understand just about any format.
In other words, I'd be surprised if there were many cameras around which didn't work if you just ignored the crappy proprietary software.
I've got a Panasonic HDC-SD5 camcorder, its pretty small and records HD. It uses SD (or SDHC) cards, its easy to get the files off with a card reader. I use Toast with the BlueRay* extensions to convert the files to Apple Intermediate Codec which iMovie uses for HD editing. iMovie will do the conversion itself, but its quicker to use Toast.
* The AVCHD format the camcorder records in is compatible with the BlueRay format.
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