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Though I'd share a little project I put together for my wedding last year. It's recently been out in service again at another wedding and I'm quite proud of how it has worked.
It's a photo booth set up so folks can take there own picture. It has a canon 20D, a portable telly, a flash and a remote control. All put in a box together.
This is what it looks like inside
and from the front
After it had been make it looked so much like a speed camera that it had to be painted yellow.
Results;
The pictures came out really lovely. Having a big dedicated flash in a controlled setting makes it so easy. I managed run the camera at iso 100 and set the lens just where I wanted it. The lens is a canon ef 35mm f2 with a cheap fisheye converter screwed on the front. The fisheye works well in this setting, the "booth" can be kept small and you can cram a load of people in. Also it is easy to focus and you can leave the AF off. This is a plus as the AF can be tricky in low light - a problem in a marquee after the sun has gone down.
It would be nice to get a propper fisheye for the job, maybe a peleng or samyang. Perhaps just a very wide lens would also do, but getting multiple lens' seems like a step too far into camera geekdom.