@tron: It was one image I saw today and it shows what I consider
disturbing about extreme wide angles. It may be a poor example
for the reason Vaughn mentioned, we were not there. (Although
I'm shure it was not the only photograph the reporter took. It
cost nothing to play with the zoom, if you can't move some steps
further or nearer. And also scissors still exist, even in PS.)
But I think my example illustrates very well that the persons
gett egg heads and look like cut out of cardboard. Regarding the
example of the car I have exactly the same problem. It just
don't show the object as my eyes see it. Ofcourse this is not a
point, effects can be welcome, but than I want to see the reason
they are used. You say it is cool, can agree with you (at least
when I see it once or twice, it becomes boring after the 20th
photograph), problem is it is used even i product photogrpahy. I
don't want to buy a car cut out of cardboard and with egg shaped
wheels.