How to identify which lens is for full frame and which one is for crop body from various lens manufacturers …..
Here is the quick guide for all ….
-Nikon-
Crop Body Lens: There is clear marking on the crop body lenses with “DX” (stands for digital sensor). Every crop body lens of Nikon carries DX word on it. But mind you there is no DX mark on their crop sensor camera bodies.
Full Frame Lenes: Surprisingly, there is no marking on their full frame lenses. So if you “DO NOT SEE” word “DX” on any Nikon lens, for sure its a full frame lens. Surprisingly, Nikon Full Frame Camera Bodies carries word “FX” (stands for Film Sensor) on their camera bodies to make then stand out.
-Canon-
Crop Body Lens: All crop body lenses of Canon are marked with word “EF-S” (Stands for "Electro Focus Short”) or "EF-M".
Full Frame Lens: All full frame lenses of Canon are marked with work “EF” (Stands for “Electro Focus”) only. Also there is a another “L-Series” line up of lenses which are for FULL FRAME only & they ultra expensive due to the specs they offer (like f/1.2 apertures) where word “L” stands for Luxury …. one of the Canon user told me this :)
-Sigma-
Crop Body Lens: All crop body lenses of Sigma are marked with word “DC” …. i guess it stands for DIGITAL CROP.
Full Frame Lens: All full frame lenses of Sigma are marked with word “DG” ….. have no idea what that means.
-Tokina-
Crop Body Lens: They follow Nikon symbology and mark crop body lenses with word “DX”
Full Frame Lens: Like Nikon full frame camera bodies, they are marking their Full Frame Lenses with the word “FX”
-Tamron-
Full Frame Lens: Now Tamron came with some thing odd to identify their lenses line up so i have to mention full frame here first. They mark their full frame lenses with word “Di” (Digitally Integrated)
Crop Body Lens: They mark their crop body lenses with “Di-II” …. i don’t know why they add mark II in the end to make them for APS-C sensor.
-Samyung / Rokinon / Bower- (One company …. same product with 3 different names)
Crop Body Lens: They mark their crop body lenses with word “CS” (stands for Compact Sensor)
Full Frame Lens: There is no marking for their Full Frame body just like Nikon full frame lenses.
-Carl Zeiss-
Crop Body Lens: There is a new line up for the crop body lenses under the name "Touit lenses” ….. & the good news is that they are Auto Focus :) …. There are other lenses for APS-C format but with different marking.
Full Frame Lens: There is no marking for their full frame lenses
-Pentax-
Crop Body Lens: Their crop body lenses are marked with “DA”.
Full Frame Lens: They mark their full frame lenses with the letters “DFA / FA".
-Sony-
Crop Sensor Lens: Their crop sensor lenses call sign is “DT or E".
Full Frame Lens: Not able to dig out what their full frame lenses marking is. Please post in the comments if any one knows about it.
-Samsung-
Crop Body Lens: “NX”
Full frame lens: Is there any full frame from Samsung ?????
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Here is the quick guide for all ….
-Nikon-
Crop Body Lens: There is clear marking on the crop body lenses with “DX” (stands for digital sensor). Every crop body lens of Nikon carries DX word on it. But mind you there is no DX mark on their crop sensor camera bodies.
Full Frame Lenes: Surprisingly, there is no marking on their full frame lenses. So if you “DO NOT SEE” word “DX” on any Nikon lens, for sure its a full frame lens. Surprisingly, Nikon Full Frame Camera Bodies carries word “FX” (stands for Film Sensor) on their camera bodies to make then stand out.
-Canon-
Crop Body Lens: All crop body lenses of Canon are marked with word “EF-S” (Stands for "Electro Focus Short”) or "EF-M".
Full Frame Lens: All full frame lenses of Canon are marked with work “EF” (Stands for “Electro Focus”) only. Also there is a another “L-Series” line up of lenses which are for FULL FRAME only & they ultra expensive due to the specs they offer (like f/1.2 apertures) where word “L” stands for Luxury …. one of the Canon user told me this :)
-Sigma-
Crop Body Lens: All crop body lenses of Sigma are marked with word “DC” …. i guess it stands for DIGITAL CROP.
Full Frame Lens: All full frame lenses of Sigma are marked with word “DG” ….. have no idea what that means.
-Tokina-
Crop Body Lens: They follow Nikon symbology and mark crop body lenses with word “DX”
Full Frame Lens: Like Nikon full frame camera bodies, they are marking their Full Frame Lenses with the word “FX”
-Tamron-
Full Frame Lens: Now Tamron came with some thing odd to identify their lenses line up so i have to mention full frame here first. They mark their full frame lenses with word “Di” (Digitally Integrated)
Crop Body Lens: They mark their crop body lenses with “Di-II” …. i don’t know why they add mark II in the end to make them for APS-C sensor.
-Samyung / Rokinon / Bower- (One company …. same product with 3 different names)
Crop Body Lens: They mark their crop body lenses with word “CS” (stands for Compact Sensor)
Full Frame Lens: There is no marking for their Full Frame body just like Nikon full frame lenses.
-Carl Zeiss-
Crop Body Lens: There is a new line up for the crop body lenses under the name "Touit lenses” ….. & the good news is that they are Auto Focus :) …. There are other lenses for APS-C format but with different marking.
Full Frame Lens: There is no marking for their full frame lenses
-Pentax-
Crop Body Lens: Their crop body lenses are marked with “DA”.
Full Frame Lens: They mark their full frame lenses with the letters “DFA / FA".
-Sony-
Crop Sensor Lens: Their crop sensor lenses call sign is “DT or E".
Full Frame Lens: Not able to dig out what their full frame lenses marking is. Please post in the comments if any one knows about it.
-Samsung-
Crop Body Lens: “NX”
Full frame lens: Is there any full frame from Samsung ?????
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