NX800 /Z200 close focussing?

[Ronald Jackson]

Interested, particularly via Doug Jensen's posts, in a NX800.

Wildlife particularly butterflies and dragonflies. Close focussing is thus important but all I can find in the specs. is close focus distance at the wide end of the zoom which useless info for me.

How close does the cam focus at the long end of the zoom range?

I have a Lumix HC1500 which, well, "okayish", with a minimum focus distance at the tele end of three feet which not that good for the smaller insects.

Ron Jackson

[Doug Jensen]

Measured from the front lens element, zoomed all the way in, max aperture, with Clear Image Zoom turned on, the close focusing is 38" on the Z200/NX800.

But I don't know how the information is useful to you without actually seeing how that translates into how much an object at that distance will fill the frame.

For example, what if the Z200 can fill the frame entirely with the face of a wristwatch at that distance, while the best another camera can do would be to show a 50% wider shot, perhaps the entire watch band and the desk it is sitting on at it's closest focus distance. Maybe that second camera can focus at 20", but at that distance it still can't get as tight as the Z200 at 38".

Isn't a camera's ability to fill the frame with an dragonfly more important than just how close the lens can physically be to the insect? I'm not saying that the Z200/NX800 is better or worse that other cameras, I'm jsut pointing out that the close-focusing capability all be itself does not paint a complete picture.

Just food for thought.