[inkista]

1. The Fuji FinePix S5600 has a 1/2.5" sensor. This is typical of P&Ses and the f-stops you're looking at are similar to looking at the differences between f/11, and f/16 on a dSLR.

2. Your hose is smack in the middle between you and the wall behind it, and it's only about three or four feet. Not enough distance to create bokeh given the tiny sensor size.

3. You're barely zoomed in at all (17.6mm equates to ~100mm in the 38-380 equiv. range of the camera; you've got roughly a 6x crop factor with a 1/2.5" sensor). Bokeh is exaggerated more with longer focal lengths.

Try the following things to get a smaller DoF: zoom all the way in, switch the macro mode, get closer to your subject, and make sure the background is farther away, AND open up the aperture. With a small-sensor P&S, just messing with the aperture isn't going to have as much effect on DoF as it would with a camera that has a larger image plane (e.g., a dSLR).