Lens & Optics — prompt skill for camera & shots

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page.

20 lens and focus cards — anamorphic, rack focus, lens flare, chromatic aberration — written as visible effects.

What it does

Lens language written as effects first, with millimeters optional: most video-model guides document qualitative words (wide-angle, telephoto, shallow depth of field), and of the current guides only Runway's uses focal lengths. The cards cover wide-angle, telephoto compression, macro, fisheye, anamorphic, shallow and deep focus, rack focus (Seedance: 移焦 plus a plain description), tilt-shift and split diopter. Misuse notes flag the classic confusions: a digital crop does not compress, and blur everywhere is not shallow focus. Newer cards add ultra-wide and normal lenses, vintage cine glass, lens flare, chromatic aberration, vignette, refraction, kaleidoscope and 360 cameras.

Use when

Not for

Install

Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/skills

Models it drives: veo_3_1, veo_3_1_fast, veo_3_1_lite, omni_flash_1_1, kling_v3, kling_v3_standard, seedance_2_5, seedance_2, minimax_h3_max, nano_banana_2_1, flux_3_image

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/b3bc9499ee00/craft-lens-optics.mp4 — Long-lens shallow focus on real glass: two live-action close-ups (Thom, then Celia) with the canal houses and trees behind them melted into soft bokeh so only the face is sharp, the look the '85mm, f/1.4' card describes. Tears of Steel (2012) 05:15.5-05:22.1, 720p release from the Blender mirror (download.blender.org/demo/movies/ToS), full 2.40:1 frame, no audio. (credit: Tears of Steel (CC BY 3.0) — (CC) Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org, https://mango.blender.org/)

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