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How to set up and use the Canon EF to RF mount adapter

Friday May 20, 2022 By Jeff Meyer If you want to continue shooting with your

Friday May 20, 2022

By Jeff Meyer

If you want to continue shooting with your favourite Canon EF and EF-S lenses on your Canon EOS R series camera, you’ll need one of the four different Canon Mount Adapter EF-EOS R options. Read on to see why, and how they work.

The Canon RF mount has a relatively short ‘flange focal distance’ – the distance between the mounting flange (where the camera and lens connect) and the camera sensor. In fact, it's less than half that of an EOS DSLR.

This is why an EF/EF-S lens designed for a DSLR cannot form a sharp image on the sensor of an EOS R system camera.

A lens adapter is essentially a tube that puts the correct distance between the back of an EF/EF-S lens and the camera sensor. Canon's adapters also maintain the electronic connection between EF/EF-S lenses and your EOS R series camera, so you can use autofocus and other features.

Canon currently offers four different EF-EOS R mount adapters:

They all attach the same way: line up the red index mark on the adapter with the red index mark on the camera, and rotate the adapter clockwise (looking at the camera from the front).

Canon's EF-S lenses are designed for EOS cameras that have smaller APS-C-sized sensors, but you can still use them on the RF mount via an EF-EOS R adapter.

You’ll need to line up the white index marker on the lens with the white mark on the adapter. For EF lenses, line up the red index markers.

The image projected by an EF-S lens doesn't fill a full-frame EOS R series camera's sensor corner to corner, so the camera automatically crops the image to match the smaller image circle of the lens.

The image will be magnified in the viewfinder and rear screen to indicate the 1.6x crop, and the resolution of the files will also be reduced (from 26MP to 10.1MP in the case of Large JPEG/RAW).

Some non-Canon APS-C lenses aren't always identified as EF-S lenses by EOS R series cameras, which means the image they record isn't automatically cropped. You can manually set the 1.6x crop under ‘Cropping/aspect ratio’ on page 1 of your camera's red Shooting menu.

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With a cam like R7 will the efs lenses still make it lose mp or crop?

EF-S lenses are designed for use on APS-C format cameras so you shouldn't see a crop or loss in image size if you use them mounted via and adapter.