The birds were farther away than I should have tried to get without one of my tele Prime lens. Still, the image isn't as bad as I expected. The FZ35 may finally be my old Uzi's replacement. I'll know more after a couple of weeks of playing. Meanwhile, I'm truthfully having a lot of trouble taking the step backwards to a fixed lens camera. This is so different than what I've been doing. The blur on the right is only Motion Blur.