# Anamorphic

Camera / Lens / Special. Checked 2026-10-13.

The widescreen cinema signature: horizontal flares and oval bokeh.

- Use when: Brand films, night scenes with lights, premium ads.
- Phrase: anamorphic lens, 2.39:1 frame, horizontal blue flares from the headlights, oval out-of-focus lights
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/lens/anamorphic-lens
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/lens/anamorphic-lens.json

## Watch out

- Anamorphic wording adds horizontal flares and oval bokeh in Veo, per a model-syntax study. (unverified; 2026 model-syntax study via Director Chair field notes on video prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: anamorphic lens, 2.39:1 frame, horizontal blue flares from the headlights, oval out-of-focus lights
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: anamorphic lens, 2.39:1 frame, horizontal blue flares from the headlights, oval out-of-focus lights
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: anamorphic lens, 2.39:1 frame, horizontal blue flares from the headlights, oval out-of-focus lights
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: anamorphic lens, 2.39:1 frame, horizontal blue flares from the headlights, oval out-of-focus lights
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Anamorphic lens, 2.39:1 frame, horizontal blue flares from the headlights, oval out-of-focus lights.
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Anamorphic lens, 2.39:1 frame, horizontal blue flares from the headlights, oval out-of-focus lights.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Anamorphic lens, 2.39:1 frame, horizontal blue flares from the headlights, oval out-of-focus lights.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Anamorphic lens, 2.39:1 frame, horizontal blue flares from the headlights, oval out-of-focus lights. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Portrait (85mm): https://directorchair.ai/lens/portrait-lens
- 21:9 ultrawide: https://directorchair.ai/ratio/ratio-21-9

## Source

Director Chair field notes on video prompting

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