Lens mounts · Canon EF · Discontinued
Canon EF mount: cameras, lenses & what adapts
Canon's DSLR mount from 1987 to the EOS R era, still the largest lens range ever made and adaptable to RF bodies with full autofocus.
Full frame imaging circle· 44.00mm flange distance· SLR / DSLR, since 1987
Cameras on Canon EF
Every body in the catalogue that takes Canon EF lenses, newest first. Prices are the best new price from a UK retailer we track.
Discontinued lens system. Canon EF lenses are no longer made new. Bodies and lenses still work and are still sold, but the range will not grow.
Lens range
58 Canon EF lenses in the catalogue. Native means made by a company that also makes Canon EF bodies; third-party is everyone else.
Best Canon EF lenses by genre
Top three per genre from the lens engine, scored on this lens's own format. The same scores you see on each lens page; Gear Builder re-scores them for the exact body you pick.
Flange distance & adapting
A plain adapter is a spacer: it can only add distance between lens and sensor. Glass from a mount with a longer flange distance adapts cleanly onto Canon EF; glass from a shorter one needs corrective optics.
- Type
- SLR / DSLR
- Coverage
- Full frame
- Crop factor
- 1.00×
- Maker
- Canon
- Introduced
- 1987
Lenses you can put on a Canon EF body
16 other mounts adapt onto Canon EF without corrective glass. Focus and framing only; autofocus and aperture control depend on the adapter.
Adapters we list for Canon EF bodies
- Urth Canon FD Lens Mount to Canon (EF/EF-S) Camera Mount (with Optical Glass) Canon FD lenses · manual
- Urth Contax/Yashica (C/Y) Lens Mount to Canon (EF/EF-S) Camera Mount Contax/Yashica lenses · manual
- Urth Leica R Lens Mount to Canon (EF/EF-S) Camera Mount Leica R lenses · manual
- Urth M42 Lens Mount to Canon (EF/EF-S) Camera Mount M42 lenses · manual
- Urth Nikon F Lens Mount to Canon (EF/EF-S) Camera Mount Nikon F lenses · manual · 2 options
- Urth Olympus OM Lens Mount to Canon (EF/EF-S) Camera Mount Olympus OM lenses · manual
- Urth Pentax K Lens Mount to Canon EF-S Camera Mount Pentax K lenses · manual
Where Canon EF lenses can go
Current camera mounts that accept Canon EF glass: 8 with a plain or thin adapter.
How deep is the Canon EF lens range?
The lens-ecosystem scores Camera Match uses when it ranks Canon EF bodies for wildlife, sports, portrait, macro, food, architecture and astro. Scored 0–10 from the native lenses buyable new, with the reasoning shown.
Still buyable new: Sigma 150-600 Contemporary EF (~£949), Tamron SP 150-600 G2 EF (~£1,299), Sigma 100-400 Contemporary EF; Canon's own EF 100-400 L II and 400 f/5.6 are no longer sold new, so first-party reach is gone. Source ↗
EF 85 f/1.8 and EF 135 f/2 L still listed by Canon, Sigma 85 f/1.4 Art and 135 f/1.8 Art still made in EF; the EF 85 f/1.4 L IS is winding down. Source ↗
EF 100 f/2.8 L Macro IS (1:1) still sold, Sigma 105 f/2.8 Macro EF, Tamron 90 f/2.8 EF, Laowa 100 2× EF. Source ↗
TS-E 17 f/4 L still sold new (TS-E 24 f/3.5 L II and 50/90/135 TS-E now used-only), EF 11-24 f/4 L, EF 16-35 f/2.8 L III, Sigma 12-24 f/4 Art EF, Laowa 15 Shift and 20 Shift in EF — still the reference tilt-shift mount. Source ↗
Sigma 14 f/1.8 Art EF, Sigma 20 f/1.4 Art EF, Sigma 14-24 f/2.8 Art EF, EF 16-35 f/2.8 L III, Samyang 14 f/2.8 EF — all still available new. Source ↗
Batteries, cards & filters for Canon EF
The battery models and card types Canon EF bodies use, and the most common filter threads on Canon EF lenses. Each links to the cameras or lenses that share it and what to buy.
Next step
Lens counts and picks come from the catalogue and the lens engine, so they change as lenses are added. Ecosystem scores are researched per mount with a source and feed Camera Match's lens-range feature. How scoring works · All mounts