Quote Originally Posted by outofline
Did some testing this morning and the only way I can get the background to blur is using the zoom and focusing in on the main subject. Kind of frustrating when my SLR will do it no matter what lens I am using just by lowering the aperture along with focusing.

Here are acouple of my test shots:
If you put a 7-76 mm lens on that slr it will act about the same way.