Adapter manufacturers · 17 brands
Camera lens-mount adapter manufacturers we track
Every adapter SKU in lensmount, grouped by who makes it. First-party bridges from Canon, Nikon, and Sony sit alongside third-party AF specialists like Sigma, Metabones, Fringer, Megadap, and Techart, plus budget options from Viltrox and Fotodiox and the mechanical precision of Voigtländer. Open any brand to see every adapter it ships, with mount-side cross-links, year, electronic contacts, and firmware / weather-seal / glass flags.
All 17 brands — sorted by adapter count
K&F Concept
8 adaptersK&F Concept (founded 2011, Shenzhen) ships the largest catalog of purely-mechanical mount adapters on the market.
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Urth
5 adaptersUrth (founded 2018, Melbourne) is a designer-led adapter and filter brand built around carbon-neutral packaging, recycled aluminum bodies, and a per-product tree-planting commitment via Eden Reforestation Projects and One Tree Planted.
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Fotodiox
4 adaptersFotodiox is a Chicago-based budget adapter maker.
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Kipon
4 adaptersKipon is a Hong Kong adapter maker founded in 2009, sharing engineering heritage with the broader Mitakon / Zhongyi optical group.
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Commlite
3 adaptersCommlite (founded 2013, Shenzhen) is one of the older Chinese third-parties in the AF-adapter category.
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Fringer
3 adaptersFringer is the Chinese third-party that specialises in EF-onto-non-Sony bridges — its niche is exactly the gap that Sigma and Metabones leave open.
See all 3 Fringer adapters →
Megadap
3 adaptersMegadap is a Hong Kong third-party manufacturer focused on autofocus bridges into Nikon Z.
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Novoflex
3 adaptersNovoflex (founded 1948 in Memmingen, Germany) is the precision-mechanical adapter specialist for the European photo market.
See all 3 Novoflex adapters →
Sony
3 adaptersSony's first-party A→E bridge family is the LA-EA series: LA-EA3 (2013, electronic pass-through), LA-EA4 (2014, SLT mirror plus 15-point phase-detect AF for any E body), and LA-EA5 (2020, internal screw-drive motor that restores AF on legacy Minolta and screw-drive Sony A glass when paired with on-sensor PDAF bodies).
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Techart
3 adaptersTechart is the Hong Kong third-party that pioneered the motorised-tube approach to autofocusing manual rangefinder glass — its LM-EA9 (2022) physically extends a 4.
See all 3 Techart adapters →
Viltrox
3 adaptersViltrox is a Chinese third-party maker known for budget AF-capable EF adapters with USB-C firmware updates — a feature uncommon at its price point.
See all 3 Viltrox adapters →
7Artisans
2 adapters7Artisans (founded 2016, Shenzhen) is a Chinese manual-focus lens specialist that also produces a small line of mechanical mount adapters as accessories to its lens catalog.
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Canon
2 adaptersCanon's first-party adapter line covers two destinations: the EF-EOS M (2012) for the original EOS M APS-C mirrorless system, and the EF-EOS R (2018) for the RF mirrorless lineup, which ships in plain, Control-Ring, and Drop-In-Filter variants.
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Metabones
2 adaptersMetabones is the long-running EF-on-mirrorless specialist, headquartered between Hong Kong and Vancouver.
See all 2 Metabones adapters →
Nikon
2 adaptersNikon's F→Z bridge is the only AF-capable option on the market — no third-party manufacturer ships an AF F→Z adapter.
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Sigma
2 adaptersSigma — the largest third-party SLR / mirrorless lens maker — built its adapter line to put its own Global Vision Art / Sports / Contemporary EF and SA lenses onto the dominant mirrorless mounts.
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Voigtländer
1 adapterVoigtländer — the Cosina-manufactured legacy lens brand — ships precision manual-focus accessories rather than AF bridges.
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