Agree with you on the Wandefu boxes (thanks again to ChinaV for the inspiration). I'm just back from a 5 day/1400km ride thru Anhui and Southwest Zhejiang and they are working out great. Before departing I installed a camera mount on the right box, but the vibration is way too high for any quality images - so I've forgone that and instead will look to a helmet cam or RAM mount.

The camera I'm using is a Nikon P6000. I prefer "high-end compact" cameras because they are just easier to carry while often delivering similar quality photos of a SLR. Also at times I like to hang it around my neck while riding which makes for an easy goto for quick shots. Of course downside is it doesn't have the lens of a SLR and in general photo quality is typically lower. But on the latter, Nikon just released the P7000 which seems to deliver better imaging. http://www.dpreview.com/previews/nikonp7000/ (Price in Shanghai is about RMB 3800)

For the video I used Windows Movie Maker which can be downloaded for free if you don't have it already installed. The compilation didn't take too long - about an 60mins which included transitions and tweaking the photo/video lengths to vibe with the music better.