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Looks to me like they are just using a wide angle lens. The first pic looks like it is almost a fisheye lens, or 2 pics stitched together
 
The high .jpg compression effect? 😕

It just lookes like a wide(r) angle lens was used.
 
Originally posted by: phantom309
I don't see an effect, other than that it was taken with a very wide-angle lens - 20mm or smaller I'd say.
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Probably more like 10mm on a digital camera. Unless it's a camera with a full frame sensor.

My 17-40mm lens is very wide at 17mm on my film camera but it looks like a normal lens on a 1.6x crop digital.
 
looks like it was shot with a 14mm on a full frame digital or a film cam, ive used the Nikon 14mm f/2.8 its nice, but costs a small fortune
lookslike they brought in some lights as well in that first pic
 
Originally posted by: Budmantom
Any cheap cameras that can?
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used canon rebel + 20 mm canon lens

if the kit lens from the digital rebel fits then you could use that instead, can find them cheap on ebay.
 
Originally posted by: Budmantom
What about this?
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That's just a wideangle converter which screws onto the front of an existing camera lens.

It will increase the camera's field of view by about 2.5x.

In general the quality of wide-angle converters is extremely poor. They cause the picture to go dim at the edges (vignetting), tend to cause severe colour blurring and give a fish-eye effect, where straight lines become curved.

Unfortunately, as you don't have an SLR with interchangeable lens - a wide-angle coverter is all that you are going to be able to use. All you need to make sure is that the converter and your camera's lens have the same thread, so that the converter can screw on. 52mm is a common size for the screw thread on SLR camera lenses. Note - do not confuse the screw thread size with the 'focal length' of the lens (a measure of the angle of view).

You may need a filter adaptor for your camera, if the lens won't accept a screw-on converter.

 
A used Nikon Coolpix 990, 995, 4500 can take a wide angle adapter plus a fisheye adapter. The Nikon adapters are very nice glass. The newer S4 lacks the thread.
 
You can use a program called autostitch to stitch together mulitple pics.

Since it was real estate, probably a digital SLR was used with a wide angle lens and then the photo was processed using PTLens to correct the distortion inherent with wide angle lenses. PTLens is a plug-in that can be used in programs like Photoshop and Irfanview (a great freebie).

My friend has done interior real estate work using a 10D and a Sigma 12-24mm lens. But he did stuff like virtual tours.

This is stuff that you just can't do that well with a point and shoot.
 
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