Choosing a Lens: Page 3

Your easy guide to lens suffixes:

II/III – Denotes version of lens
APO – Apochromatic lens elements designed to produce sharper images by focusing all wavelengths of light to the same point
DG – Sigma’s designation for digital and full-frame lenses
Di – Tamron lenses designed for full-frame sensors
Di-II – Tamron lenses compatible with APS-C sensors
DO – Canon lenses featuring a diffractive optical element
DX – Nikon lenses designed for APS-C sensors
ED – Nikon lenses featuring Extra Low Dispersion element(s)
ED – Olympus and Leica lenses with low dispersion glass
EF – Canon lenses compatible with full-frame and APS-C-sized sensors
EF-S – Canon lenses compatible with APS-C sized sensors
EX – Sigma ‘excellent’ range of lenses
FE – Canon’s fisheye lenses
G – Nikon lenses without a manual aperture ring
HSM – Sigma lenses with Hypersonic Motor
IF – Internal focusing lenses
L – Canon ‘Luxury’ range of lenses
LD – Tamron lenses with Low Dispersion glass
MF – Manual-focusing-only lenses
OS – Sigma lenses with Optical Stabilisation
PRO – Tokina Professional range of lenses
TS-E – Canon’s ‘tilt and shift’ lenses
UD – Canon lenses with Ultra Low Dispersion element(s)
VR – Nikon lenses with Vibration Reduction
USM – Canon lenses with an Ultrasonic Motor