I just got the Canon Powershot SD500, and I've read that it has several manual control options, including aperture... But I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the settings for aperture? Are we manually able to change them ourselves? All I really want to acheive is a shallow DOF so the background will be blurred like in this post. I tried zooming in all the way like the post suggested, but that didn't help. I wasn't able to get a whole lot of room between the subject and background like the post also suggested, but it should have been enough.... Any suggestions?
Anyway, thanks so much for your help
Amanda