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Those parallax, estate agent's lenses are much more fun.


Nikon offers two such lenses: an 85mm f/2.8 and a 28mm f/3.5, both manual focus, and both over $1000 (although the grey market 28mm lens is a bit cheaper).

Unfortunately, with the 1.5x crop, the wide angle lens just isn't terribly wide angle any more. The poor man's solution is to fix the perspective digitally. There's a nice page at photo.net that details the whole process. If I had a bigger budget (both in time and in money), then I'd probably investigate the large format world. If you want to tilt your lens and do all kinds of other corrections, nothing beats a view camera. Of course, you give up a certain amount of convenience.

Still, think how much fun you could have wearing a trenchcoat and a fedora and carrying around a Horseman with those big flash bulbs.