{"id":103,"date":"2021-05-08T01:21:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T00:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:07:07","slug":"canon-ef-m-mount-lenses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/references\/canon-ef-m-mount-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon EF-M mount lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The EF-M mount is a lens mount designed in 2012 by Canon for digital mirrorless cameras with APS-C sensors. It is a bayonet mount with three lugs, made exclusively for the APS-C format (1.6\u00d7 crop factor), with a focal flange distance of 18mm and a throat diameter of 47mm. EF\u200d-\u200dM mount inherited EF-mount digital-only communication, there are no mechanical linkages between lens and camera, and it is fully compatible with EF and EF\u200d-\u200dS mount variants, meaning simple adapters with pass-through connections are sufficient to retain all adapted lens functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EF-M lenses cannot be used on RF-S cameras due to a shorter focal flange distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Note<\/strong><\/span><em><strong><span style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">:<\/span><\/strong><\/em> this reference currently counts only autofocus lenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-greenshift-blocks-infobox gspb_infoBox gspb_infoBox-id-gsbp-b8dc2de\" id=\"gspb_infoBox-id-gsbp-b8dc2de\"><div class=\"gs-box notice_type icon_type\"><div class=\"gs-box-icon\"><svg x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 486.463 486.463\"> <g> <g> <path d=\"M243.225,333.382c-13.6,0-25,11.4-25,25s11.4,25,25,25c13.1,0,25-11.4,24.4-24.4 C268.225,344.682,256.925,333.382,243.225,333.382z\"><\/path> <path d=\"M474.625,421.982c15.7-27.1,15.8-59.4,0.2-86.4l-156.6-271.2c-15.5-27.3-43.5-43.5-74.9-43.5s-59.4,16.3-74.9,43.4 l-156.8,271.5c-15.6,27.3-15.5,59.8,0.3,86.9c15.6,26.8,43.5,42.9,74.7,42.9h312.8 C430.725,465.582,458.825,449.282,474.625,421.982z M440.625,402.382c-8.7,15-24.1,23.9-41.3,23.9h-312.8 c-17,0-32.3-8.7-40.8-23.4c-8.6-14.9-8.7-32.7-0.1-47.7l156.8-271.4c8.5-14.9,23.7-23.7,40.9-23.7c17.1,0,32.4,8.9,40.9,23.8 l156.7,271.4C449.325,369.882,449.225,387.482,440.625,402.382z\"><\/path> <path d=\"M237.025,157.882c-11.9,3.4-19.3,14.2-19.3,27.3c0.6,7.9,1.1,15.9,1.7,23.8c1.7,30.1,3.4,59.6,5.1,89.7 c0.6,10.2,8.5,17.6,18.7,17.6c10.2,0,18.2-7.9,18.7-18.2c0-6.2,0-11.9,0.6-18.2c1.1-19.3,2.3-38.6,3.4-57.9 c0.6-12.5,1.7-25,2.3-37.5c0-4.5-0.6-8.5-2.3-12.5C260.825,160.782,248.925,155.082,237.025,157.882z\"><\/path> <\/g> <\/g> <\/svg><\/div><div class=\"gs-box-text\">\n<p>Canon EF-M system was discontinued in October 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background\">Jump to: <a href=\"#0-canon-ef-m-lenses\"><strong>Canon EF-M lenses<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"#1-3rd-party-ef-m-lenses\"><strong>third-party EF-M lenses<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"#2-adapters\">adapters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-canon-ef-m-lenses\">Canon EF-M lenses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Canon EF-M <strong>11\u2013\u200d22mm F4\u2013\u200d5.6<\/strong> IS STM <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">~17\u2013\u200d35mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canon EF-M <strong>15\u2013\u200d45mm F3.5\u2013\u200d6.3<\/strong> IS STM <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">~24\u2013\u200d70mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canon EF-M <strong>18\u2013\u200d55mm F3.5\u2013\u200d5.6<\/strong> IS STM <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">~30\u2013\u200d90mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canon EF-M <strong>18\u2013\u200d150mm F3.5\u2013\u200d6.3<\/strong> IS STM <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">~30\u2013\u200d240mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canon EF-M <strong>22mm F2<\/strong> STM <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">~35mm-equivalent<\/mark>, <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">pancake lens<\/mark><\/mark><\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canon EF-M <strong>28mm F3.5<\/strong> Macro IS STM <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">45mm-equivalent<\/mark>, <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">macro lens<\/mark><\/mark><\/mark><\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canon EF-M <strong>32mm F1.4<\/strong> STM <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">~50mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canon EF-M <strong>55\u2013\u200d200mm F4.5\u2013\u200d6.3<\/strong> IS STM <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">~90\u2013\u200d320mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"1-3rd-party-ef-m-lenses\">Third-party EF-M lenses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sigma <strong>16mm F1.4<\/strong> DC DN Contemporary <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">26mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sigma <strong>30mm F1.4<\/strong> DC DN Contemporary <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">48mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sigma <strong>56mm F1.4<\/strong> DC DN Contemporary <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">90mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tamron AF <strong>18\u2013200mm F3.5\u20136.3<\/strong> Di III VC <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">~30\u2013\u200d320mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Viltrox AF <strong>23mm F1.4<\/strong> STM ED IF <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">37mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Viltrox AF <strong>33mm F1.4<\/strong> STM ED IF <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">~55mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Viltrox AF <strong>56mm F1.4<\/strong> STM ED IF <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">90mm-equivalent<\/mark><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"2-adapters\">Adapters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Canon offered the official Mount Adapter EF-EOS M that allowed the use of EF and EF-S mount lenses on EF-M mount cameras. It retains full control of lens features like autofocus, aperture and image stabilisation and behaves like a native EF-S camera regarding the crop factor. Some third-party manufacturers, notably Viltrox, produced two different adapters &#8212; the standard one, Mount Adapter EF-EOS M, functionally identical to the genuine Canon Mount Adapter EF-EOS M; and Mount Adapter EF-M2 with the same electronic compatibility but functionally similar to a native EF mount camera &#8212; a &#8220;full frame&#8221; model. Its telecompressor (&#8220;speed booster&#8221;) optics reduces APS-C crop factor by 0.71\u00d7, reducing it to effectively 1.136\u00d7 instead of the standard 1.6\u00d7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><thead><tr><th>Adapter<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">AF, aperture, IS<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Fixed tripod foot<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Detachable tripod foot<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Crop factor<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Speed booster<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Canon Mount Adapter EF-EOS M<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2705<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2705<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1.6\u00d7<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Viltrox Mount Adapter EF-EOS M<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2705<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2705<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1.6\u00d7<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Viltrox Mount Adapter EF-M2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2705<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2705<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1.136\u00d7<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2705<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>K&amp;F Concept EF-EOSM II AF<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2705<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2705<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1.6\u00d7<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"3-references\">References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-greenshift-blocks-toggler gs-contenttoggler gspb_toggle-id-gsbp-3b9d183\" data-height=\"5rem\"><div class=\"gs-toggler-wrapper\" id=\"gs-togglergsbp-3b9d183\" style=\"height:5rem\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canon_EF-M_lens_mount\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canon EF-M lens mount<\/a> on Wikipedia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canon.ca\/en\/product?name=Mount_Adapter_EF-EOS_M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Canon Mount Adapter EF-EOS M<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viltrox.com\/products\/viltrox-ef-eos-m2-lens-adapter-0-71x-speed-booster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Viltrox EF-EOS M2 Lens Adapter<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viltrox.com\/products\/viltrox-ef-eos-m-lens-mount-auto-focus-adapter-for-canon-eos-ef-ef-s-d-slr-lens-to-canon-eos-m-ef-m-mount-mirrorless-camera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Viltrox EF-EOS M Lens Mount AF Adapter<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentfaith.com\/KF06.519_canon-ef-ef-s-to-eos-m-mount-metal-can-autofocus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Canon EF EF-S Lens and Canon EOS M Mount Cameras Auto Focus Lens Mount Adapter K&amp;F Concept EF to EOS M Adapter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"gs-tgl-trigger\" 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