SLTA....since you would be using this yourself and can control the care of the equipment, you could consider a higher end videoscope, but the entry level of same. A FLIR VS70 or Extech HDV600 are two pretty good ones. Those will run you somewhere around $2000 for the entry level.
If you want to go a lot cheaper, Extech has one for $275 or so (BR-250), that will probably do the trick for your applications. We have several different borescopes....all are difficult to use! We have a couple of Olympus Industrial Borescopes which are very good for looking at things, but they don't have video capability and the cost to adapt them for that is astronomical! We have a little cheapy General Instruments scope but no recording capability. We have the BR-250 and that one seems to have the greater application flexibility but as TME noted, the lighting is limited. The video records OK in low light though.
Good luck.