The short answer to your question is yes, an EF lens can be used on a crop-sensor (EF-S) Canon camera. The longer answer is that EF-S lenses are designed for crop-sensor lenses, the ‘s’ denotes a smaller image circle, but it’s otherwise a compatible mount.
Are EF and EF-S lenses compatible?
The EF-S lens mount is a relatively new offering from Canon, so the selection of available lenses is limited compared to the full EF range, but it is backward compatible with the EF mount, and can therefore still accept all EF lenses.
What is the difference between EF and EF-S lens?
The primary difference between Canon EF and EF-S lenses is that EF lenses are designed to work with both full-frame and APS-C DSLR bodies, while the EF-S lens line is designed to work only with APS-C bodies.
Is my lens EF or EF-S?
You can recognize EF lenses by its red dot, where you line up the dot on the lens mount to a similar looking one on the camera body. However, if your Canon camera lens has both a red dot and a white square to line up the body to when mounting the lens, then it is an EF-S lens.
Is EFS full frame?
But what’s the difference between these two lens types? In the most basic sense: EF lenses are produced for Canon’s full-frame DSLRs. EF-S lenses are produced for Canon’s APS-C DSLRs.
What does EFS mean on Canon lenses?
Electro-focus short back focus
EF-S stands for Electro-focus short back focus. This Canon lens mount was launched alongside the EOS 300D (EOS digital Rebel) camera in 2003. EF-S lenses have an image circle which just covers the sensor of APS-C cameras, meaning that the image circle is smaller in size than in EF lenses.
Are EF-S lenses cropped?
The rest of the image falls outside the area of the APS-C sensor.3) When an EF lens is used with an APS-C sensor, there is a lot of cropping of the image. 4) EF-S lenses give a much smaller image circle than EF lenses, but the cropped image size remains the same.
Does EF-S have EF adapter?
Short answer: No. Long answer: Because EF-S lenses protrude deeper into the mirror box than EF lenses, and yet have the exact same distance between the throat and the focal plane, such an adapter must include corrective optics to adjust the back focal distance so that the lens focuses properly at infinity.
Can I use EFS lens with 6D?
EF-S means this is a “APS-C (Cropped Sensor)” lens. So this lens will work on everything Canon has except its full frame cameras which are the 6D, 5D and 1D.
Can you use EF-S lens on full frame?
Put simply, Canon EF-S lenses are designed solely for use on Canon APS-C DSLRs. Canon EF lenses are designed to work with full frame and APS-C DSLRs from Canon.Because EF lenses have a larger image circle, they will cover full frame sensors and APS-C sensors.
Will an EF-S lens work with a 5D?
EF-S lenses are specially designed for the 1.6 crop bodies. They will not work on the full frame 5D. EF lenses will work on all Canon EOS cameras.
Can I use EF-S lenses on full frame?
EF-S is a Lens Mount
Interestingly, though EF-S lenses are not compatible with full-frame cameras, Canon’s APS-C cameras are fully compatible with all EF lenses. Bottom line: Canon’s EF-S lens mount is designed specifically for their APS-C cameras and extend deeper into the camera’s body than standard EF lenses.
Can I use EFS lens on M50?
All EF/EF-S lenses will fit the M50 with the adapter. You will have to cradle/hold the lens with your left hand while you shoot with the right and it’s not awkward at all.
Can you use EF-S lenses on EOS R?
EF-S lenses are designed for APS-C sensor EOS DSLRs, but they can also be used on EOS R System cameras via adapter. The camera will automatically produce cropped images that match the smaller image circle of EF-S optics.
Are all Canon lenses interchangeable?
This was the start of the single biggest native lens system for an interchangeable lens camera. If you bought a Canon EOS camera, you knew that any of the EF lens range would fit your camera. That stayed the same for 16 years. In fact, it’s still true all EF lenses fit all EOS cameras, one way or another.
What does RF and EF stand for?
RF mount is the new mount from Canon that is used on their lineup of full frame mirrorless cameras. EF mount is the older mount used by Canon in their Film SLR and Digital DSLR cameras (cameras with mirrors in them).
Is EF-S a crop?
Focal Length Equivalent (Crop Factor)
Canon APS-C cameras have a 1.6x crop factor, meaning that a 50mm EF-S lens will behave like an 80mm lens would on a 35mm camera.If you’ve used a full-frame camera or know the focal lengths, crop factor can be very helpful in choosing your EF-S lenses.
What is difference between USM and STM lens?
Conclusion. USM lenses are more professional-grade and better for shooting photos, while STM lenses are geared more towards amateurs and better for video. The STM lenses really are almost silent, as they were built with video in mind.
Do sigma lenses work on Canon EFS?
Third-party lenses on Canon EOS cameras
A variety of lenses from third-party manufacturers Sigma, Tokina, Tamron, and others are available in Canon EF mounts to fit Canon EOS camera bodies.
Can I use EF-S Lens on Canon 6D Mark II?
The Canon EOS 6D Mark II is Canon’s least expensive full-frame camera.Only the EF lenses for full-frame sensors and not Canon’s EF-S lenses fit on this camera.
What lens mount is Canon 6D?
EF mount
| Canon EOS 6D | |
|---|---|
| Camera Type | Digital AF/AE single-lens reflex camera |
| Compatible Lenses | Canon EF lenses (except EF-S and EF-M lenses) |
| Lens Mount | Canon EF mount |
| Image Sensor Type | CMOS |
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