I use a digital camera, although it seems that a lot of people like to use actual camcorders. Camcorders mean you have to go frame by frame and take it out to get the image, usually it comes out fuzzy and completely out of focus. That is why I don't like people who do that, lol... It is kind of a way as cheating becuase there is no way you can miss it.
I have a manual setting which is what I use on my camera, you can adjust exposure times and a couple other features that help for clarity and brightness... With these, the solid strikes only occured about once or twice every minute. So I went with a 30 second exposure and captured most of these. The picture with 4 CG strikes in it I was using 15 sec exposure becuase the lightning was much more frequent.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
J Squared Weather
http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=10550