The 45-200 Panasonic lens has wonderful image quality, but even with the smallest focus box, it will not focus reliably in situations like this with busy backgrounds. Decided to just set the camera to manual focus and used the VF2 electronic viewfinder to manually focus. It was a piece of cake and I am extremely happy with these jpg images. I'm finding I much prefer the jpgs from this camera - and post processing is practically non-existent.