Close Up Filter on Wide Angle Lens

Oceanmonkey123 wrote:

As a Macro/Close Up photographer (Flora and Fungi) I have been looking at options to get a wider field of view in then a dedicated Macro lens offers. I own the Z105MC.

so do i.

have you considered stitching panoramas? i use a nodal ninja mk3 (it's the 2nd heaviest piece of photographic equipment i own, so that tells you much i like it). i've never tried it outside with fungis (funges?) but i have done wildflowers outdoors and all sorts of still lifes indoors. the hard part is adjusting your panorama rig so the nodal point is exactly centered. once you do that, 3 vertical shots gets you to something like a 50mm but at the 100mm's working distance, and 2 rows of 4 shots will get you down like a 30mm. i think you'd need to go about 3 rows of 6 shots to match a 20mm.

if the 50mm had enough working distance you could get to 30, 20, even 15mm equivalent with much less shots than the 105.

I have looked at the Venus Optics 15mm Macro lens but not quite what I want as the focus distance is virtually non exsistent so have wondered about using a Close Up filer on my Nikon Z14-30 lens. As an 82mm filter is well in excess of £100, before I purchase has anyone tried anything like this. Maybe there would be a better lens option if someone can think of !

sorry. that's where i pick the brains of someone like joseph.

I am not looking for life size but generally closer focus than what is standard on this lens. Would there be a better lens option on Nikon Z Full Frame ?

Maybe someone has put together something like this before