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Bigger sensor (mediums/large format) or bigger "equivalent" sensor. Basically zoom all the way in on your longest lens, set your focus and aperture, and take a panorama with however many photos it takes to fill the frame you want. You'll probably end up with hundreds of photos. Automerge them in Photoshop, and resize the resulting image to something more reasonable, unless you want it with gigapixel resolution. If you do it right (and by that I mean you don't miss a part of the photo resulting in a blank gap) or your computer doesn't run out of memory, it will absolutely have the effect you're and looking for. Source: I've done this many times with landscapes to tremendous success.
So you’re just doing a massive in close focus stack?
That would be way too extreme, I think. You back up to where the objects of interest (the one in focus) approximately fills the frame. Closer if the object is stationary. Then you just take a standard panorama at your widest aperture. Generally I've found once your final image goes beyond 35mm or 50mm equivalent field of view, the panorama fails to merge or the Photoshop function starts to make wacky assumptions about distortion.