An interchangeable lens camera can only accept lenses designed to work with it. The type of attachment of the lens onto the body is called the lens mount. Many camera systems use one of the more or less common proprietary or standard lens mounts.
Autofocus SLR, popular film/sensor formats[]
APS/digital SLR[]
- Nikon F mount, variant for Nikon IX lenses (only on Nikon Pronea APS SLRs and Kodak/Nikon Pronea DSLRs!)
- Minolta V mount, Vectis/APS and RD-3000/Digital
- Canon EF
35mm SLR/digital SLR[]
Here is an alphabetical list of lens mounts for 35mm SLR cameras:
- Nikon F mount, still in use
- Canon EF, still in use
- Minolta AF, still in use (for Sony α system)
- Pentax K, still in use
- Sigma AF
110 film SLR[]
Manual focus SLR[]
35mm SLR[]
- Canon FD
- Zeiss Contarex
- Exakta
- Fujica X
- Zeiss Icarex
- Leicaflex / Leica R, still in use
- Minolta MC / MD lenses|Minolta SR / MC / MD / X-600
- Nikon F, still in use
- Olympus OM
- Olympus Pen F
- Pentax K, still in use
- Praktiflex
- Rolleiflex SL35
- Yashica / Contax
- 39mm screw (for the Zenit)
- 42mm screw (M42 or more fully M42x1), still in use by Voigtländer on the Bessaflex
- T2 screw (M42x0.75) Still in use for some 3rd party lenses - adaptable to most cameras
35mm SLR, leaf shutter[]
- Topcon UV mount: Auto 100, Uni, Unirex
viewfinder cameras[]
35mm rangefinder[]
Here is an alphabetical list of lens mounts for 35mm rangefinder cameras:
- 39mm screw or Leica screw, still in use by Voigtländer
- Contax rangefinder
- Contax G
- Leica M, still in use
- Nikon rangefinder
35mm rangefinder, leaf shutter[]
- Agfa Ambi Silette
- Carl Zeiss Jena Werra
- Olympus Ace
- Voigtländer Prominent
- Voigtländer Vitessa T
Mirrorless digital[]
- Micro Four Thirds mount, on Olympus PEN and Panasonic G series
- Samsung NX mount, on Samsung NX cameras
- Sony E-mount, on Sony NEX cameras
medium format[]
120 SLR[]
- Pentacon Six mount
- Hasselblad V System
- Koni-Omegaflex
- Mamiya 645
- Contax 645
- Pentax 645
- Pentax 6x7
- Pentacon six
120 rangefinder[]
small mount formats[]
- C-mount, also known as the Cine mount
- CS mount
- D mount
- NF mount
- S mount
- X mount