{
 "slug": "normal-wide-lens",
 "name": "Wide normal (35mm)",
 "category": "lens",
 "group": "Focal length",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Close to how we see a room; natural, documentary, present.",
 "use_when": "Following someone, interiors, creator content, street.",
 "phrase": "35mm lens at walking distance, natural perspective, a little of the surroundings around her",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "For stills, practitioners write a full capture line with an aperture (35mm, f/1.8); a 2025 study for Midjourney found f-stops ignored and plain words (blurred background) working. Plain words first, the number as support.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Dan Kieft (1 Sep 2026) via Director Chair field notes on image prompting; Midjourney mapping in our own notes (2025, to audit)"
  },
  {
   "text": "Degrees mean different things per tool: Camera Control uses a vertical field of view (29 degrees is about 50mm), Higgsfield's tested prompts a diagonal one (29 degrees is about 85mm). Say which, or give the focal length.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Camera Control (aicameracontrol.com), its framing label read on 13 Oct 2026 by placing the subject in the 3D stage and Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [
  {
   "model": "seedance-2.5",
   "phrase": "63 degree diagonal field of view, camera 2 to 3 metres from the subject, no lens drift",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "checked": "2026-09-28"
  },
  {
   "model": "nano-banana-pro",
   "phrase": "35mm lens",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  }
 ],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "aicameracontrol",
   "url": "https://aicameracontrol.com/",
   "what": "a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate"
  },
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "wide-lens",
  "standard-lens",
  "follow-shot"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Field-of-view table from Higgsfield's tested Seedance prompts, via Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": {
  "slug": "follow-shot",
  "name": "Follow shot",
  "category": "move",
  "label": "Shown with: Follow shot",
  "site": "aicameramovements",
  "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
  "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/17-follow-shot-over-the-shoulder-hq.mp4",
  "media": {
   "video": "/media/aicameramovements/17-follow-shot-over-the-shoulder-hq.mp4",
   "card": "/media/aicameramovements/17-follow-shot-over-the-shoulder-hq-card.mp4",
   "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/17-follow-shot-over-the-shoulder-hq.jpg",
   "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/17-follow-shot-over-the-shoulder-hq-card.jpg",
   "width": 1280,
   "height": 720,
   "duration": 15
  }
 },
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/lens/normal-wide-lens",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/lens/normal-wide-lens.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting].\nCapture: 35mm lens",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting].\nCapture: 35mm lens",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: 35mm lens at walking distance, natural perspective, a little of the surroundings around the subject\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting].\nCapture: 35mm lens at walking distance, natural perspective, a little of the surroundings around the subject",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: 63 degree diagonal field of view, camera 2 to 3 metres from the subject, no lens drift.",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: 63 degree diagonal field of view, camera 2 to 3 metres from the subject, no lens drift.",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. 35mm lens at walking distance, natural perspective, a little of the surroundings around the subject.",
  "veo-3.1": "35mm lens at walking distance, natural perspective, a little of the surroundings around the subject. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}