Any "low depth of focus" tricks around?

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Any "low depth of focus" tricks around?

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I need a "low depth of focus" effect for my Panasonic GS75 (stop laughing! :P ). It claims to have a feature named "tele macro". Of course, when I zoom up to tele at 10x, I get a low depth of focus. But in the same time I also get only a macro of the scene. If I move the camera away from the actors, the effect will disappear more and more.

I already tried to apply a wide-angle convertor to get a bigger picture in the mentioned "tele macro" mode. But -you may guess- it was neutralizing the Effect I was after, "low depth of focus".

Are there any tricks to achieve it nevertheless, even with my Camera (I can manually open the aperture to 18 dB, but this won't help)? Any ideas are welcome, thanks.
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