One good way to see what you get with different lenses is the old pbase photo sharing site. It has the handy feature of letting you search photos by the lens they were taken with (as long as the lens info is in the EXIF data).

http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/ef_8_15_4l_fisheye_usm
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