# Wide lens (24mm)

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

Shows a lot of the place with a little drama in the perspective.

- Use when: Establishing shots, interiors, low wide angles, geography of a scene.
- Phrase: 24mm wide lens, the whole interior visible, the person a few metres away
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/lens/wide-lens
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/lens/wide-lens.json

## Watch out

- Focal length only means something with a sensor size. For Seedance, write the field of view in degrees plus the distance. (vendor; Field-of-view table from Higgsfield's tested Seedance prompts, 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: 24mm lens
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: 24mm lens
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: 24mm wide lens, the whole interior visible, the person a few metres away
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: 24mm wide lens, the whole interior visible, the person a few metres away
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: 84 degree diagonal field of view, camera 3 to 5 metres from the subject, no lens drift.
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: 84 degree diagonal field of view, camera 3 to 5 metres from the subject, no lens drift.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. 24mm wide lens, the whole interior visible, the person a few metres away.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
24mm wide lens, the whole interior visible, the person a few metres away. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate
- 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

- Ultra wide or fisheye: https://directorchair.ai/lens/ultra-wide-lens
- Wide normal (35mm): https://directorchair.ai/lens/normal-wide-lens
- Wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/wide-shot

## Source

Field-of-view table from Higgsfield's tested Seedance prompts, via Director Chair field notes on video prompting

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.