{
 "slug": "ultra-wide-lens",
 "name": "Ultra wide or fisheye",
 "category": "lens",
 "group": "Focal length",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Stretches space and bends edges; things near the lens look huge, the room looks bigger.",
 "use_when": "Skate and action content, tight interiors, playful distortion.",
 "phrase": "ultra wide lens close to the subject, strong curve at the edges of the frame, the room stretching away",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Ultra wide makes subjects look much further away than they are; keep the important thing close to the lens.",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "ShotDeck lens-size guide (8 Jul 2026) via Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  },
  {
   "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": "nano-banana-pro",
   "phrase": "Shoot through a fisheye lens to create strong barrel distortion and a spherical, panoramic field of view.",
   "evidence": "unverified",
   "checked": "2025-12-08"
  }
 ],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "aicameracontrol",
   "url": "https://aicameracontrol.com/",
   "what": "a 3D stage where this lens is 14 to 18mm at 63 to 90 degrees vertical field of view"
  },
  {
   "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",
  "action-cam-rig"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "The first Director Chair spec, own words and Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/lens/ultra-wide-lens",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/lens/ultra-wide-lens.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting].\nCapture: Shoot through a fisheye lens to create strong barrel distortion and a spherical, panoramic field of view",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting].\nCapture: Shoot through a fisheye lens to create strong barrel distortion and a spherical, panoramic field of view",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: ultra wide lens close to the subject, strong curve at the edges of the frame, the room stretching away\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting].\nCapture: ultra wide lens close to the subject, strong curve at the edges of the frame, the room stretching away",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Ultra wide lens close to the subject, strong curve at the edges of the frame, the room stretching away.",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Ultra wide lens close to the subject, strong curve at the edges of the frame, the room stretching away.",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Ultra wide lens close to the subject, strong curve at the edges of the frame, the room stretching away.",
  "veo-3.1": "Ultra wide lens close to the subject, strong curve at the edges of the frame, the room stretching away. [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."
 }
}