# Ultra wide or fisheye

Camera / Lens / Focal length. Checked 2026-10-13.

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
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/lens/ultra-wide-lens
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/lens/ultra-wide-lens.json

## Watch out

- Ultra wide makes subjects look much further away than they are; keep the important thing close to the lens. (film-craft; ShotDeck lens-size guide (8 Jul 2026) via Director Chair field notes on video prompting)
- 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. (measured; 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)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: 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].
Capture: Shoot through a fisheye lens to create strong barrel distortion and a spherical, panoramic field of view
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: ultra wide lens close to the subject, strong curve at the edges of the frame, the room stretching away
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: 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].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics 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].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Ultra wide lens close to the subject, strong curve at the edges of the frame, the room stretching away.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[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.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)
- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a 3D stage where this lens is 14 to 18mm at 63 to 90 degrees vertical field of view
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Wide lens (24mm): https://directorchair.ai/lens/wide-lens
- Action cam: https://directorchair.ai/rig/action-cam-rig

## Source

The first Director Chair spec, own words and Director Chair field notes on video prompting

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