# Degraded reporter camera

Camera / Rig / Human. Checked 2026-10-13.

Found footage or news: raw, unfiltered, urgent.

- Use when: Mock news, found-footage concepts, stunt content.
- Phrase: degraded news camera, autofocus hunting, rolling-shutter wobble, crude digital crop-zoom punches
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/rig/reporter-cam-rig
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/rig/reporter-cam-rig.json

## Watch out

- Ask for the flaws by name. A clean camera with a vintage label still looks clean. (unverified; Not measured yet)

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Degraded news camera, autofocus hunting, rolling-shutter wobble, crude digital crop-zoom punches.
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Degraded news camera, autofocus hunting, rolling-shutter wobble, crude digital crop-zoom punches.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Degraded news camera, autofocus hunting, rolling-shutter wobble, crude digital crop-zoom punches.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Degraded news camera, autofocus hunting, rolling-shutter wobble, crude digital crop-zoom punches. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Handheld: https://directorchair.ai/move/handheld-shot
- VHS tape: https://directorchair.ai/texture/vhs-tape

## Source

Rig wording from tested prompts in Director Chair field notes on video prompting

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