I am looking at purchasing a Pentax Optio 60 digital camera - It looks to
have the features I want at not much cost- One question though.

In my days of 35mm photography, it was easy to isolate a subject through
depth of field. The above camera has a manual option so will this be
possible if I use the camera on Telephoto (it has the equiv of a 108mm max
zoom) and on maximum aperture to do the same. Digital cameras seem to have
less leeway when it comes to depth of field , I guess because of the smaller
frame size.

Cheers

Mark