The whole point of having a distorted fisheye is to get stupid close, if you get something less wide, it's not going to look as good. If you want to get a less wide fisheye, the tokina 10-17mm is something to consider but this is a bit more expensive and more suited to full frame sensors. Those 8mm f3.5 fisheyes are perfectly good entry level fisheyes and I think its best if you do just get used to getting close in order to get a photo or clip, just stay alert. It's not even that wide compared to a lot of different other industry standard fisheye/camera setups.