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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HermitIbis" data-source="post: 3528493" data-attributes="member: 128291">Three shots from an encounter with a Peregrine on Saturday. Coming towards me, I was able to get a series of 24 sharp photos in the 15fps mode with AF-C. With smaller birds flying into my direction the focus is often struggling, fortunately the Peregrine is a "slow" bird. And it is also sufficiently large to keep the focus square on the target. Only the 25th photo, when the bird was almost above me, shows the bird on the edge of the frame, so it is to be expected that it is blurry. Can you expect a better AF performance from an old (2012) Nikon1 camera that costs a fraction of the latest M4/3 models? Eventually, I hope, one of the leading camera companies will produce a camera with pattern recognition and speech software, so that you just have to say "raptor", and it instantly focuses on the bird. Not to forget the switch that converts the camera into a capable bat detector.</blockquote>