I don’t know whether there are filmfreaks active on this forums but I’m pretty shure some of you have seen Hitchcocks’ Vertigo. In this film ‘the master of suspence’ uses a cool trick which I tried to reproduce in Blender. You can watch the result here:
It’s very short, the modelling, texturing and lightning look like crap but it wasn’t my intention to make it look photo-… eh videorealistic! 
Hope you like it,
Gallardo
ps: If you don’t know the scene, you can watch it here!
wow cool, I was asking for information about this effect 3 days ago in the effects forum, found out that its called reverse tracking or a dolly zoom but I still have not had time to figure out how to recreate it in blender. The way you did it looks really good, are you planning on sharing any settings that were used in your test?
lol thats kool. you moved the camera away from the scene, and zoomed in at the same time right?
It’s pretty simple (obviously, otherwise I wouldn’t have figured this out) 
@Yoeri: indeed! That’s the way I did it. (see below)
This is how I did it:
So you just have to move up the cam while zooming in (with ‘Lens’) at the same time.
I hope this was clear. If not, I’ll try to upload the .blend.
Ciao,
Gallardo
ps: sorry for my poor English :o
i haven’t tried this yet, but would you get similar results by having the camera to the setting ‘orthographic’ and then changing the lens depth?
I wouldn’t think so. The effect is a shift in perspective at the same time the camera lens is changed. So orthographic mode = no perspective, therefore it wouldn’t work.
would you get similar results by having the camera to the setting ‘orthographic’ and then changing the lens depth?
Roofoo’s correct, and you can’t animate the Scale setting for an orthographic camera anyway 