Step 1 - a if you habitually use a wa convertor, remove it for shallow dof shots.
If you must have shallow dof get the camcorder with the biggest ccds you can afford - the larger the ccd the shallower the dof you can get.
I recently went from a cam with .333inch ccds to .5 inch - I am sure the better optics helped too but the difference was very clear.
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