Thanks, Dominic. 
This might help the lighting issues with the video camera. I use these in my “other” line of work. They work very well. From their website:
The New Generation of Digital Video technology being utilized in the Digital Video Flashlight is so small and advanced that the entire digital video and audio recording system is integrated into a high quality, water resistant machined aluminum law enforcement style flashlight. The size, shape and weight is the same as traditional flashlights
Now that’s just cool 
Do you have a link to their site to see the specs?
That’s pretty cool!
Just a flashlight. InterNACHI mag light.
OK, can someone help me out on this video recordings … what is the recommendation on type of video recording device to use, are you using a digital video camera? or the flip cameras? … minimum format, size, type, quality, etc.? … what software is needed? … if you don’t want to use youtube, how would you place on webpage for clients use only? … how big will the files be (depends on format I’m sure)? … I would guess you would only be able to link video within your report to website.
Thanks in advance for your help and assistance.
Like Mike reminded me , you can upload to YouTube you just have to make it a private video and only allow permissions to certain people.
File size will depend on the format. If you were to upload an mpg or wmv file without resizing it you could be looking at a hundred megs per 4-5 minutes easily, if not more. YouTube compresses these down quite a bit, makes the download as they play (which saves waiting time) and more. You would easily max out your website hosting space and bandwidth if you uploaded lots of videos (versus YouTube where the videos are on their servers). Of course you could always just burn them to a CD and hand or mail the videos to your client as well.