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Eneloops
Use Sanyo Eneloops.
Forget anything anyone mentions about rechargables that pre-date eneloops. These made in Japan Sanyo batteries are phenomenal. Roughly 2000mah capacity, they charge easily and retain their charge very well. They are a better performance choice than straight alkaline for higher-drain applications. No memory effect, the batteries can be left in any state of charge for prologed periods (though, the prudent among us prefer leaving them charged).
Once you get into eneloops, you may slowly roll into a few dozen eneloop AA's and a handful eneloop AAA's and happily use them for years to come.
Eneloops consistently perform: don't try other brands until you're an expert (e.g. seriously reviewed the usage data on CPF), as other brands make big claims that they don't live up to.
Best,
Linger
(I have no affiliations to disclose)
Lots of brilliant posts + discharge tests + 3 year storage tests + battery shoot-outs on candlepower.com but unfortunately the site is down right now so I can't give you links. Candlepower forum has a battery section, just search 'eneloops'
wikipedia.org Low self-discharge NiMH battery
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