Well you all would be getting a lot of pics soon and a nice review of the most afforadable laptop… Acer 3000 based on Sempron 2800+ and is for Rs 29990 only… A friend of mine just bought one and i took it for the review…
wat abt noise and white balance
it has built in 7 different modes for white balancing : auto, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, fluorescent H or custom.
regarding noise i do not know any built in noise reducing features but it does not produce much noise in iso 100 settings while shooting completely night shots and the flash works well in the night too. i had posted an image in this thread with complete night shot of aarti in navratri festival you can evaluate it for your hands on evaluation.
Yeah, ISO 100 is the max you can expect to use it without purple fringing and speckling. ISO 200/400 settings are nigh on unusable.
due to request of switch i am updating the thread with pictures of my batteries and charger.
First - GOOD REVIEW !! 
I just saw that on the Eveready NiMH batteries on the packing it is mentioned “manufactured by GPI Hong Kong” I have circled it in RED on the bottom of the image.
Do you think it is this the same as GP you mention ?
These are sold in India and the price is mentioned on the top - pack of 2 batteries. I saw this with a charger and 4 batteries for around Rs.900/-
Thanks MedPAL
@Eazy :
i am not 100% sure that the GPI you have mentioned and GP i have mentioned are the same or not.
but my batteries costed me 100 for each piece (4 of them) and 500 for charger and when i ordered to one of my professional photographer friend he was not sure of my camera being compatible with 2100 so he took 1600 ones.
so the price of 125 each batteries and 2050 mAh in your case seems ok and how is performance of it.
to me my batteries gives me about 60 photos with mixed operations (like a few photos with lcd on and a few photos with lcd off and in between i always transfer images to pc). thats a pretty good response so i am satisfied you batteries must be lasting a bit longer i think.
My feeling is that they are possibly the same… the additional alphabet “I” could be for International 
I doubt a company named GP would allow another company to sell batteries with a brand name GPI.
My Canon A400 manual mentions that it can handle 2300mAH batteries - I have 4 Sony 2300’s and 4 Eveready 2100’s. The Sony’s dont last more than 1.5 hours of continous shooting - about 40 picture MAX - some with flash. The Sony batteries charge in the Sony charger in ONE hour and the Eveready batteries charge in the same Sony charger in about 3 hours 
FYI I used to run a Transparency Film Process Lab for Professional Photgraphers for many years till my health forced me to stop - the Fomaldehyde fumes were terrible <> <> 
Hmm…my mitsubishi 1800mAH, and coolpix 3200 lasted till 120 pics @ 3MP and few vids, till the mem card was full and battery went dead then 
the coolpix is verrry choosy when it comes to batteries…wont work with either 1.2V Ni-Cad or the normal 1.5V cells 
OH WOW !!! 
I get only about 40 per charge with the Sony 2300mAH’s
I use them on one straight shooting session - you must have done this over days … right ? I think the Sony batteries will give many more shots if I do a few and then give the batteries a rest.
last time in rangantittu, ~80 pics and 3 mins of vids, still no low battery found 
nope…one straight session…
the day of 120 pics, cam was on for about 30 minutes stretches between pics and vids…
EDIT : It was the day when London sydney rally was in mysore…was clicking on Prosches, corollas, mustangs , etc…
that was 111 pics exactly…about 30% used flash…
then came the video session..hehehe…about 12-13 mins of vids @ 640x480 resolution…too bad my mem card was full
BTW, hadnt charged the batteries to full…just ran to the spot when i heard it had started
Ahhh… I suppose my new Sony Batteries have come with a memory problem… I will run MEMTEST on it and check 
when i got my cam, the dealer told me that the Nikon batteries were crap, so he gave me these mitsubishis…they’re more than a year old now, still gives me lotsa power
Memtest will not start - ERROR
Is there a way to get rid of the Charge Memory problem of these new batteries ??
I am using these Energizer NiMhs. Works well for me with my A70. But can’t tell how many snaps they take on a single charge. Never measured it.
@Eazy, the battery memory thing is very dicey. Some say that runnning a full charge- drain cycle about thrice solves the problem. Others say that battery memory is an urban legend. Really donno what is the truth. You can try the charge-drain method.
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Hey COUNT !!! Where u been ??
Yup I think I will have to do the charge/discharge thingy… I have this problem only with the Sony batteries - they came defective … the Eveready’s seem to work fine - I got about 100 shots with flash on first use today.
@Eazy
Been slightly busy lately. Saw some nice pics taken by you in another thread. Keep them coming!
Please also let us know what you did with your batteries.
@Medpal… I got the same charger as yours but for rs 600 and got Sanyo Ni-MH 2500 for 600(4 Pcs)… hope its a good buy…
charger for 600 is a good buy and 2500 batteries 150 per piece is a steal.
hope it gives you good perfoemance.
your battery performance will increase gradually through first few charge - discharge cycles.