Each parent calls their child as it pleases, that is clear, but when we come into the world of photography and we find that each brand has a different way to describe the objectives and lenses in his catalogue, the thing starts to bundling.
When we are accustomed to a brand is easily understandable, at least for those who have some years on it, but who has not read: new Tamron AF 28-75 mm f/2.8 SP XR Di LD Aspherical (IF) and said, ole the Tamron guys, I only heard the focal length and aperture, but the rest or potato (well Yes, that has some aesferica lens).
As a good solution for having always hand the meaning of all these acronyms and designations is to take a look at the super list has created Demian Villanueva in his blog Visual settings
In short we can get a general idea with this comparative table for Canon, Nikon, Tokina, Tamron and Sigma:
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Although it is best that you take a look to the complete guide, explaining each of the initials and names divided by abbreviationfinder.org.
Even being a magnificent work, Miss least some brands such as Sony, Olympus and Panasonic, among others, so while we congratulate Deniam you are encouraged to complete the work.
Update: Demian has put hands to work and already we can find names and acronyms of other brands, I leave the message that has left us in the comments: today I added Sony/Minolta and Olympus/Zuiko, if you see errors or want to add something about them, more than welcome!
+ Pentax is the next mark I want to add, subtracts search information about their nomenclatures, collect, process it, translate it, and publish it. Panasonic, Leica, Carl Zeiss subtract also.
+ It is true, high-end Nikon objectives are the VR, it was my mistake to make the picture (copy and paste of the previous row, and I forgot to change it). Now this box shows “some incorporate a golden ring”.
(+ Also corrected another error in the picture, in which the legend of the penultimate row was wrong, now I have changed it to “camera optimized lenses Full Frame (can be used also in cameras with APS-C sensor”) Please update it!
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Sightmark Eclipse 2×24 Night Vision Monocular
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