page_title: Sony E-mount
section_title: List of adaptable lens mounts
hierarchical_section_title: Sony E-mount / Adapting lenses to Sony E-mount / List of adaptable lens mounts
caption_attribution_description: English: Canon EF 16-35mm f2.8L IS on Sony NEX-5c
context_page_description: The E-mount is a lens mount designed by Sony for their NEX and ILCE series of camcorders and mirrorless cameras. The E-mount supplements Sony's A-mount, allowing the company to develop more compact imaging devices while maintaining compatibility with 35mm sensors. E-mount achieves this by:
  Minimizing mechanical complexity, removing mechanical aperture and focus drive.
  Shortening the flange focal distance to 18 mm compared with earlier offerings from Sony which used 44.5 mm.
  Reducing the radius of the flange.
  The short flange focal distance prohibits the use of an optical viewfinder as a mirror box mechanism cannot be included in this reduced distance. Therefore all E-mount cameras use an electronic viewfinder.
context_section_description: The following lens mounts can be used on the Sony E-mount with the use of various adapters available from third parties:
   Alpha mount
  Sony A-mount (Sony LA-EA1, LA-EA2, LA-EA3, LA-EA4 with AF and electronic aperture control, 3rd part adapters with aperture ring)
  BNCR mount
  C-mount
  Canon EF and Canon EF-S (Sigma MC-11 EF-E and other adapters with AF and electronic aperture control, "dumb" adapter variant with tilt available)
  Canon FD
  Contax G
  Contax N
  Contarex
  Contax/Yashica (C/Y) bayonet (an adapter variant with tilt is also available)
  Exakta lens mount
  Fujica X bayonet
  Hasselblad Xpan
  Konica AR (bayonet)
  Leica M-mount (bayonet) (adapter with back focusing AF available)
  Leica M39 lens mount (LTM/L39) (screw)
  Leica R-mount (adapter variant with tilt available)
  M42-mount (screw) (adapter variant with tilt available)
  Micro Four Thirds
  Minolta SR-mount (MD/MC)
  Minolta/Konica Minolta A-mount (Minolta/Konica Minolta AF/α/Dynax/Maxxum and Sony α DSLRs) (Sony LA-EA1, LA-EA2, LA-EA3, LA-EA4 with AF and electronic aperture control, and third-party adapters with aperture ring)
  Nikon F-mount (with AF and electronic aperture control, adapter variant with aperture ring for G lenses available, adapter variant with tilt available)
  Olympus OM-mount (adapter variant with tilt available)
  Olympus Pen F
  Pentax Auto 110
  Pentax K-mount (adapter variant with aperture ring for DA lenses available)
  PL mount
  Rollei-mount
  Sigma SA-mount (Sigma MC-11 SA-E with AF and electronic aperture control)
  T2-mount (screw)
caption: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L IS lens adapted to the Sony NEX-5 with a "dummy" non-electronic adapter.
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