how do you know if....

rosselliot

a lens fits your camera? are most lenses just...generally able to fit on all cameras? cause they tend not to say - attaches to camera with a blahblah mm attachment, blah blah. ya know?
like...for example, will the Nikorr 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5D ED-IF AF Zoom fit on...say....a 30D?

Thanks in advance!

- Ross

SpeshulEd

Nikkor is a Nikon mount lens. You'll need canon mount lenses. All canon brand lenses will work on your 30d, as well as some sigma, tamron, etc...the third party lenses will almost always say what mount they go on.

wxwax

Camera manufacturer's lenses usually only fit their own bodies. There seem to be exceptions, like Leica. But you need a special adapter.

Then there are third party lens makers, like Sigma, Zeiss and Tamron, among others. Some third party lenses are designed for specific brand bodies. Others are not, and require a special adapter.

If you like a lens and want to see if it will fit your body, how about you Google it?

Hi Stan!

Andy

Nikkor - Nikon
Canon - Canon
Olympus - Olympus
Pentax - Pentax
Sigma, Tamron make lenses for many brands, be sure to check the lens mount

To complicate things, you can buy adapters say, from cameraquest.com and use a Zeiss on a Canon (mf only)... or a Nikon on a Canon. But it's for special purpos only.

Xtopherous

A Tamron lens I've been looking at says in its specs: "Mount: Canon, Minolta, Nikon-D, Pentax". I'm assuming that means the lens comes in four flavors, not that it can fit on those four brands out of the box, correct?



Also, I figured the "-D" means digital, but if they leave that off, is it assumed that "they" mean film?

Red Bull

^Yes to the four flavors.

I'm not sure about your second question. I don't have much knowledge of Nikon stuff.

ziggy53

Xtopherous wrote:

A Tamron lens I've been looking at says in its specs: "Mount: Canon, Minolta, Nikon-D, Pentax". I'm assuming that means the lens comes in four flavors, not that it can fit on those four brands out of the box, correct?



Also, I figured the "-D" means digital, but if they leave that off, is it assumed that "they" mean film?

Generally speaking, lenses that fit film cameras also fit digital cameras of the same mount. Also, generally speaking, "digital" (or "crop") lenses won't work well, sometimes not at all, on film cameras or even full-frame digital cameras.

Not all manufacturers use the same "coding" or nomenclature. There is no industry standard.

There are some very wide angle lenses that are a problem because the rear element can hit the mirror, especially with the lens at Infinity.

ziggy53

claudermilk

Assuming your example 30D is the camera you are trying to fit, you need Canon EOS mount lenses. Any current Canon lens will work, or EOS mount Sigma, Tamron, or Tokina lenses. Ignore Nikkor, Olympus, Pentax, etc. They will not fit. Every manufacturer has a slightly different mount that is not interchangable...and some have several over time (example, older Canon manual-focus FD mount).

Now, if you really get bug to force something else to fit on an EOS, there is likely an adapter that can make it sort of work as a full-manual lens. I know there's a contingent of wackos over on FredMiranda that have adapted Zukio, Zeiss, Contax, and some other esoteric cubic-$ glass to their EOS bodies.

dragon300zx

OK the responses here surprise me for several reasons. Mainly cause there is only half the answer to your question here. And secondly because this is an easy question for you to answer for yourself.

Go to google and search canon lense mounts or nikon lense mounts.

or go to the manufacturers websites and read the camera discriptions, the lense discriptions, and other information that is there. There are tons of easy, very discriptive answers available for this on the internet, and they will even explain the different flavors of the different manufacturers own mount types. Not all canon lenses mount the same, work the same, and are interchangeable the same.

herion

claudermilk wrote:

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Now, if you really get bug to force something else to fit on an EOS, there is likely an adapter that can make it sort of work as a full-manual lens. I know there's a contingent of wackos over on FredMiranda that have adapted Zukio, Zeiss, Contax, and some other esoteric cubic-$ glass to their EOS bodies.

Greetings from one of the wackos - with 3rd party lenses, you only get one "flavor" per lens per box - so there's a Sigma 28-70 with a Nikon mount, another one with a Canon mount, still another with a Pentax mount, etc. I've adapted Leica, Zeiss and screwmounts to my 20D and 30D.

TylerW

The 30D should be able to mount "EF" and "EF-S" lenses. EF is the technical name for the canon lens moutn flange. So if a lens from a 3rd party Mfr. (such as sigma or tamron) says it mounts to a canon, you'll need to specify that its for a canon (or EF) mount at time of purchase.

My question to the peanut gallery is this: My 10D won't mount canon's EF-S lenses, which are its line of lenses specifically for its 1.6 crop factor bodies. Does anyone know, based on that, if I would be able to use the third party crop-factor lenses, sugh as Sigma's DC line or Tamron's Di-II series?

Generally, I'd like to stay away from lenses that I'll have to sell off when I eventually move up to full frame, but some seem rather tempting, especially if I want anything seriously wide angle.