Sony APS-C E-Mount Lenses | The Ultimate List

This list features all APS-C or Super 35mm E-Mount lenses that are readily available. This means it won’t be including those random lenses you might see flow through ebay. This list also features only APS-C E-Mount designed lenses. I’ve also compiled a  list of Sony lenses for full frame cameras.

The Complete List Of Sony APS-C Lenses

Many of these lenses could also be considered Super 35mm lenses, although APS-C and Super 35mm sizes are slightly different, these lenses will work for either.

35mm Equiv represents the perspective of the actual lens related to the traditional 35mm film standard. So when you hear someone refer to a 50mm lens, with APS-C that’s actually about 35mm because you have to include the 1.5X crop factor of APS-C. 35mm x 1.5 = 52.5mm.

Sony APS-C Lenses

Sony Lens Codes:  OSS – Optical Steady Shot  /  T* – Zeiss’ unmatched multi-layer lens coating  /  ZA – Lenses by Zeiss for the Alpha cameras  /  G – Sony’s distinguished top quality lens  /  FE – Full Frame E mount

Zeiss APS-C Lenses

Prime Lenses

Zoom Lenses

Sigma APS-C Lenses

Sigma Cinema Super 35mm Lenses

Sigma Lens Codes: DN – Designed For Mirrorless  / EX – Maintains Max F-Stop When Zooming

Rokinon / Samyang APS-C Lenses

Tokina Super 35mm Cinema Lenses

Tokina has made some very popular cinema lenses for the NEX or E-Mount cameras. The 11-16mm is designed for Super 35mm sensors which is pretty much APS-C.

There are also a lot of great Tokina Full Frame E-Mount lenses that will also work for your Super 35mm sensor camera. But I’ve posted those over on the Full Frame E-Mount list.

Fujifilm Cinema Lenses

Fujifilm has started making some Cine lenses for the E-Mount but also for the Fujifilm X-Mount. Fijifilm has been known for their legendary lenses. It’s nice to see them taking a consumer approach to the cine lenses.

These lenses also only cover super 35mm. So you would need to crop down your full frame cameras to super 35mm.

SLR Magic

Chinese Lenses

Like on the FE lens page I’ve grouped all the Chinese lenses in their own group. Some of these lenses are actually not bad, but people do consider them cheap lenses, both in quality and in price.

They’re great for if you want a cheap lens to beat up on.

Opteka APS-C Lenses

Mitakon Lenses

Mitakon is one of the more popular Chinese brands since they are known for their speedmasters. The Mitakon 35mm f0.95 Mk II is actually a really good lens. Even though they are Chinese, they are made the Japanese way – So they say.

Meiki

Sainsonic Kamlan

The 50mm f1.1 is actually not a terrible lens for the price.

The Kamlan 50mm f1.1 lens has some really nice bokeh and shallow depth of field. It’s also a great high-contrast lens with fantastic micro contrast and color rendering. The downside is corner and edge sharpness isn’t that great and it has some problems with vignetting and chromatic aberrations.

7artisans

The 35mm f2 can also work for full frame cameras.

Sony E-Mount Adapters

There are too many E-Mount lens adapters to count now; so I’ll start by listing what I’ve used and what others are finding useful.

I love the metabones adapters but they are a little pricey. For a fraction of the price the Novoflex adapter works perfectly fine. That’s actually what I’m using right now because my metabones adapter broke and I just didn’t see any benefit of spending the extra money on a new one.

I also use the Voigtlander for my Leica lenses. It’s a very solid adapter. The close focus version just means it telescopes slightly.

Sony APS-C Lens List Conclusions

Rumors are Sony will be focusing on some really nice lenses for their Sony APS-C cameras. I’ll continue to find and update this list as we move forward. 

There are also some great Sony Full Frame Lenses that you can buy and use for your APS-C camera.

Lenses like Rokinon 35mm f2.8 or even the Sony 50mm f1.8 are also great lenses that work well on APS-C cameras. So be sure to check out that complete list.

I’ll continue to update this with as new lenses are released. Let me know if you’re missing anything.