Well here's one of mine from earlier this year, previously in the normal picture thread , demonstrating both how close you can get and how distorted it can get - yet I still like it :-)

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This second one on Flickr is a building in Ljubljana, Slovenia taken from across the road with my bak to the building on the other side. My wife had a 24mm lens on her Alpha 6000 and couldn't get the full building in - with the 08, I had the full building plus room to straighten it up. Sometime you just need super wide...