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Country music singer merle haggard dead at 79

Country music singer merle haggard dead at 79

American country music singer merle haggard has died of pneumonia on his 79th birthday, his manager confirmed.

MR Haggard was a member of the country music hall of fame with dozens of albums and top hits.
he wrote songs, sang and played fiddle and guitar, usually singing about american pride, rebels and outlaws.

The Singer, World Health Organization battled lung cancer in 2008, had recently cancelled april tour dates due to illness and said he hoped to be back on the road in may.
rolling stone magazine has described him as " the backbone of one of the greatest repertoires an all of american music, plain - spoken songs populated by the kinds of working people haggard grew up with: farmers, hobos, convicts, widows, musicians and drunks ".

National Drink Wine Day: The 16 TV Characters Most Likely to Toast

Today is National Drink Wine Day—one of those mysterious holidays that seem to spring fully formed from your Facebook or Twitter feed. A Google search leaves the holiday’s origins ambiguous but seems to at least source it to a year: 2011. So happy Fifth-Annual National Drink Wine Day, everyone. Who are we to argue with such a fantastic idea? To put you in the mood to guzzle some grapes, here are 20 TV characters who know their way around a bottle. Let their hardy livers inspire you.

TYRION LANNISTER—GAME OF THRONES
The shortest member of the Lannister clan is, nonetheless, its most accomplished drinker. Ever since Tyrion made his first appearance in the pilot he’s not been too far from a wine bottle, goblet, or skin.

TYRION LANNISTER—GAME OF THRONES
TYRION LANNISTER—GAME OF THRONES

CERSEI LANNISTER—GAME OF THRONES

But if anyone could give Tyrion a run for his money in the drinking department, it’s his sister: Cersei. The thirst she developed when holed up during the Battle of the Blackwater in Season 2 has only increased in the intervening years. Maybe if she had been drinking less and scheming more, Season 5 wouldn’t have gone quite so terribly for her.




CERSEI LANNISTER—GAME OF THRONES

CERSEI LANNISTER—GAME OF THRONES




ALICIA FLORRICK—THE GOOD WIFE

Alicia recently got in trouble with her neighbors for running a law office out of her swanky Chicago apartment. But if I shared a recycling bin with the Florrick household, I would have raised a few flags long before.  She doesn’t need wine—she likes wine. For the record, she likes tequila too.

ALICIA FLORRICK—THE GOOD WIFE


LINDSAY JILLIAN—YOU’RE THE WORST

Any one of the four core characters on this show could have cropped up here but somehow I think Linds is the most inclined to prefer wine. It’s classy, just like her.
LINDSAY JILLIAN—YOU’RE THE WORST

LINDSAY JILLIAN—YOU’RE THE WORST




ROBIN SCHERBATSKY—HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

It’s possible now that she’s found a happily ever after with Ted, Robin is less inclined to drink under a desk while weeping. Then again, when Ted gets out his red cowboy boots, we won’t blame Robin for taking a deep swig, or 20.

ROBIN SCHERBATSKY—HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

ROBIN SCHERBATSKY—HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER



THE CUL-DE-SAC CREW—COUGAR TOWN

If you don’t have a Big Carl or Big Joe to call your very own, then fill the closest vase with all the wine you have, make fun of your neighbors, play Penny Can, and fondly remember this late, great show.




TAMI TAYLOR—FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Truth be told, both Eric and Tami Taylor enjoyed unwinding with a glass of wine, but I decided to put Mrs. Coach on here because . . .




AMY SCHUMER—INSIDE AMY SCHUMER

Amy Schumer paid such a beautiful homage to Connie Britton’s character in her sketch “Football Town Nights.” Bleary eyes, full glass, can’t lose.




BERNARD BLACK—BLACK BOOKS

I don’t recommend trying Bernard Black’s wine popsicle (or ice lolly if you’re British) at home. Freezing a full, glass wine bottle sounds like a recipe for disaster. But if you can pull it off, more power to you, and may I suggest a nice rosé?





LIZ LEMON—30 ROCK

You know what pairs well with Night Cheese? Treadmill wine. But if neither of those sounds good, you might want to try some of Liz Lemon’s patented Funky Juice. Find the recipe here.

LIZ LEMON—30 ROCK

LIZ LEMON—30 ROCK




HANNIBAL LECTER—HANNIBAL

What good is an elegantly prepared meal without a nice Chianti to wash it down?

HANNIBAL LECTER—HANNIBAL WINE MANIAC
HANNIBAL LECTER—HANNIBA



CARRIE MATHISON—HOMELAND

don’t, however, recommend you wash down your meds with wine. But if you do, make sure you’re ready to blow your life up completely and repeatedly.

CARRIE MATHISON—HOMELAND WINE MANIAC
CARRIE MATHISON—HOMELAND 



KATHIE LEE GIFFORD AND HODA KOTB—THE TODAY SHOW

O.K., yes, Kathie Lee and Hoda aren’t exactly characters, but, well, aren’t they? Like Tami Taylor before her, Kathie Lee got her own loving send-up courtesy of S.N.L.’s Kristen Wiig. Wiig’s preferred accessory? A wine glass, of course.

KATHIE LEE GIFFORD AND HODA KOTB—THE TODAY SHOW

KATHIE LEE GIFFORD AND HODA KOTB—THE TODAY SHOW




EDINA MONSOON AND PATSY STONE—ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS

Eddie and Patsy—maybe the original Hoda and Kathie Lee?—are back in the news today thanks to the teaser for their upcoming movie. As you might expect, the women have not changed their hard-drinking ways one bit. You wouldn’t want it any other way, would you, sweetie darling?

EDINA MONSOON AND PATSY STONE—ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS

EDINA MONSOON AND PATSY STONE—ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS




SKYLER WHITE—BREAKING BAD

When things got especially rough in the White household, Skyler turned to some classic white-wine therapy to get her through tense dinners and even tenser nights. I’d like to think that with a little bit of closure from Walt, Skyler is no longer hitting the bottle quite as hard. But she should go ahead and do whatever she needs to do to get through. She deserves it.

SKYLER WHITE—BREAKING BAD

SKYLER WHITE—BREAKING BAD



OLIVIA POPE—SCANDAL

If you decide to go full Olivia Pope today and drink red wine while wearing white, then I take my over-sized white hat off to you. You’re a braver drinker than most of us.

OLIVIA POPE—SCANDAL If you decide to go full Olivia Pope today and drink red wine while wearing white, then I take my over-sized white hat off to you. You’re a braver drinker than most of us.

OLIVIA POPE—SCANDAL



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Art Movements


Joe Caslin, “Yes Equality” (2015) (photo by David Sexton

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.

Artist Joe Caslin completed a 45-foot-tall mural on the side of a remote Irish castle. The work, which depicts two women in embrace, was created to mark Ireland’s same-sex marriage referendum, which takes place today.

New York’s City Council passed a bill requiring public hearings before certain public art projects are installed. The bill was introduced by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer following criticism of a Ohad Meromi sculpture commissioned for Long Island City’s Jackson Avenue. The bill needs to be signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio before it becomes law. De Blasio recently signed a bill that requires the Department of Cultural Affairs to analyze its art and community activities in response to the economic hardship felt by the majority of the city’s artists and arts professionals.

Abdel Majid Touil was arrested in connection to the March attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, which resulted in the deaths of 22 people.

Arts advocate Margaret Kargbo and disability activist Frank Barham were killed in a highway accident. Kargbo was documenting “Wheel 2 Live,” a project commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Following a freedom of information request filed by Gawker’s Matt Novak, the FBI published 44 heavily redacted documents from its files on architect Buckminster Fuller.

Detained Cuban artist Tania Bruguera will stage a 100-hour reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) at her home in Havana.

The Bank of England will include an artist on the new £20 note. Members of the public can submit their nominations through the Bank of England’s website.

James Knowles III, the mayor of Ferguson, announced that the city will erect a permanent memorial to Michael Brown.

Film producer Valeria Richter, who has part of her left foot amputated, was initially barred from the Cannes Film Festival for not wearing high heels. Richter was one of a number of women who claimed that female guests were required to wear heels.

Max Liebermann’s “Two Riders on a Beach” (1901) will go to auction next month, making it the first work from the art hoard of Cornelius Gurlitt to go on sale. Last week, a German court approved the painting’s return to the heirs of its rightful owner.

Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz brought her mattress to her graduation ceremony. Sulkowicz embarked on an ongoing performance entitled “Performance: Carry that Weight” after alleging that a fellow student – Paul Nungesser – raped her. University President Lee C. Bollinger turned away from Sulkowicz as she crossed the stage, refusing to shake her hand.



New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission decided that the interior of the Four Seasons restaurant should not be altered. The owner of the Seagram building, art collector Aby Rosen, had proposed changes to the building’s interior.

The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) voted to discontinue the title “intern.”

The Victoria and Albert Museum is collaborating with Imperial College and University College London to devise conservation methods for works of design made of plastic.

Danny Boyle gave a speech at the opening of Home, a new £25-million (~$38.7 million) arts centre in Manchester. Boyle, who is perhaps best known as the director of Trainspotting (1996) and Slumdog Millionaire (2009), is a patron of the venue.

Charles Le Brun’s “Everhard Jabach and His Family” (ca. 1660) went back on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art following a ten-month conservation project.

The Met Museum’s riggers hanging Charles Le Brun’s “Everhard Jabach (1618–1695) and His Family” (c. 1660)

New York City’s Department of Transportation unveiled the murals it commissioned for the 191st Street tunnel.

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities denied claims by the Egypt Heritage Task Force that the Apis Bull of Hadrian had been broken into pieces during transit.

The 2015 Biennial of the Americas will open on July 14 in Denver.

The New York Times produced a short documentary on Chris Burden’s seminal performance art piece “Shoot” (1971).

The Sir John Soane’s Museum opened up previously inaccessible rooms to the public.

Transactions

The Heritage Lottery Fund donated £9.5 million (~$14.7 million) to the British Library’s digitization of its sound archives.

The Winton Guest House, a home designed by Frank Gehry, sold for $1.5 million at auction, despite having been previously valued at $4.5 million.

Transitions

The W.A.G.E. logo (via wageforwork.com)
Diverse Works, Light Industry, Machine Project, Three Walls, and Side Street Projects became W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) certified.

Anne Pasternak was appointed director of the Brooklyn Museum.

The Whitney Museum of American Art promoted Donna De Salvo to deputy director for international initiatives and senior curator, and Scott Rothkopf to deputy director for programs and chief curator.

Michael Taylor was appointed chief curator and deputy director for art and education at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The Luminato Festival hired Anthony Sargent as its new CEO.

Vivian Li was appointed a curator of Asian art at the Worcester Art Museum.

Accolades

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum was named European Museum of the Year by the European Museum Forum.

Frank Gehry will receive the J. Paul Getty Medal for leadership in visual art on September 28.

Alexandre Arrechea was named artist of the year by the Farber Foundation.

The Baker Artist Awards announced their 2015 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize winners.

Paul McCarthy and Diane Keaton will be honored at the Hammer Museum’s annual gala in October.

Paul McCarthy, “Santa with Butt Plug” (2007), vinyl-coated nylon, four fans, rigging, 24.40 x 12.20 m / 80 x 40 ft, at Paul McCarthy – Air Pressure, De Uithof, City of Utrecht, Netherlands, 2009 (photo by Mark Vos © Paul McCarthy, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)


Trend Video Art as a Multivalent Medium

Trend Video Art as a Multivalent Medium
Video art is still in the process of establishing itself. Despite the fact that art has been created through the medium over the course of the past century, it’s still hard to pin down what forms video art can take, and what vocabulary we use to talk about it. At New York University’s 80WSE gallery, a current exhibition entitled By Chance, a Video Show.
marshals together video art in its multivalent states, from video-as-installation to video-as-flat surface to video-as-collage. Artists including Alejandro Cesarco, Jason Varone and Nayda Collazo-Llorens explore the different possibilities of video art.
Though not meant to be an encyclopedic or entirely academic exercise (the exhibition’s wall text poses it as a kind of emotional tone poem, the most confusing aspect of the entire show), By Chance, a Video Show manages to represent a few of the different strategies artists use when dealing with video. Arranged in loose succession without a strong over-arching narrative, the exhibition is more impressive for its art than its curation, however. Though the show begins with Seoungho Cho’s superficial, overly flashy 4-screen installation “Neon 2” (2010), the exhibition’s heart lays elsewhere.

Still from Alejandro Cesarco, “Two Stories” (2010)
Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ room-size installation “Unfolding the Triangle (NYC)” (pictured at top) is more of a trip, chiefly for the fact that it stretches outside of video art as an end in itself, instead placing video monitors and footage in the context of other materials. Snaking reflective tape lines wind their way around the walls, connecting bits of text, drawings and images that all loosely form narratives of UFO spottings, strange encounters and supernatural phenomena that have occurred around New York City. Video screens dot the walls as well, with looping abstract moving images like soft-focused search beams pointed at a conspiracy theorist’s camera. Intriguing for its embrace of multiple media, the piece’s actual content and execution leave a little to be desired.
Both Beryl Korot and Alejandro Cesarco use the medium of video for narrative storytelling with pieces that take the now-normal single-channel format projected movie theater-style against a large wall. Korot’s “Florence” (2008/09) mingles rain and rushing water imagery with the primary source narrative of a soldier slogging flooded through trench warfare. The writer’s words also fall like rain. Cesarco further destabilizes the concept of a narrative with “Two Stories” (2010) (seen above), a French New Wave-style exploration of an empty European parlor room, voiced over by a narrator who narrates himself telling an unnamed story to a now-absent audience seated in the same room. The narration loops in circles, with no beginning or end. Cesarco had by far the most delicate, and perhaps the most traditionally art-world-ready, piece in the exhibition. I quite liked his confused sense of teller and listener, voyeur and witness.

Jason Varone, “Dromospheric Pollution” (2011)
If Collazo-Llorens’ use of video in the context of multimedia collage was a little too loose, artists Jason Varone and Jaime Davidovich have sharper takes on that strategy. Varone’s “Dromospheric Pollution” (2011) was both wall drawing and projection. Broiling clouds, or maybe plumes of smoke from some unseen tragedy, sharply etched in thin black lines cover the walls of the artist’s space while video projectors added strings of apocalyptic news headlines descending from the clouds, again, like rain. The mingling of the hand-drawn and the digital is powerful, and the headlines, from environmental catastrophes to medical emergencies, are urgent and relevant in a time of 24/7 media onslaught, but I wish the work felt more ambitious and more finished. It’s the beginning of an inquiry well suited to a university gallery. Davidovich’s installation is less successful but perhaps more superficially pretty, with videos of bucolic scenes projected onto small painted canvases. The canvases give the videos a physical surface and texture, but that doesn’t make their content any more interesting.
This exhibition excels by its artists, who present object examples of different ways to think about video art. Whether strictly narrative, ambient, collaged into a greater installation or some combination of all of the above, together these artists presented an expanded portrait of video art important for its diversity. We could all use more shows like these to further our own understanding of the different possibilities and avenues that video art takes, presented in a context that facilitates contrast and comparison. What’s immediately apparent here is that video art can’t simply be defined by a single strategy.

Sony A7S SPESIFICATIONS


continue the previous post about Sony A7S

Features

  • 12.2-megapixel 35mm full-frame Exmor™ CMOS sensor
  • Wide ISO Sensitivity (ISO 50 - 409,600*2) and impressive dynamic range
  • World’s first full-frame sensor capable of full pixel read-out without binning process for Full HD/4K video output*3 *4
  • Pro-Quality video functions such as Picture Profile, S-Log2 gamma, time code & more
  • BIONZ X™ image processing engine
  • High-contrast, high-resolution XGA OLED Tru-Finder



SPESIFICATIONS SONY A7S :

GENERAL
Camera Type          Interchangeable lens digital camera
Lens compatibility
Sony E-mount lenses

Type:
35mm full frame (35.6×23.8mm), "Exmor" CMOS sensor
Number of pixels (effective)
Approx. 12.2 mega pixels
Number of pixels (total)
Approx. 12.4 mega pixels
Image sensor aspect ratio
3:02
Color filter
R, G, B primary color
Anti-Dust function
Yes
Anti-Dust system
Charge protection coating on, Optical Filter and ultrasonic, vibration mechanism
Anti-Dust operation (auto)

Power off
Recording format
JPEG (DCF Ver. 2.0, Exif Ver.2.3, MPF Baseline compliant), RAW (Sony ARW 2.3 format)
Image size (pixels) [3:2]
35mm full frame L: 4240 x 2832 (12M), M: 2768 x 1848 (5.1M), S: 2128 x 1416 (3.0M); APS-C L: 2768 x 1848 (5.1M), M: 2128 x 1416 (3.0M), S: 1376 x 920 (1.3M)
Image size (pixels) [16:9]
35mm full frame L: 4240 x 2384 (10M), M: 2768 x 1560 (4.3M), S: 2128 x 1200 (2.6M); APS-C L: 2768 x 1560 (4.3M), M: 2128 x 1200 (2.6M), S: 1376 x 776 (1.1M)
Image size (pixels) [Sweep Panorama]
Wide: horizontal 12416 x 1856 (23M), vertical 5536 x 2160 (12M), Standard: horizontal 8192 x 1856 (15M), vertical 3872 x 2160 (8.4M)
Image quality modes
RAW, RAW & JPEG, JPEG Extra fine, JPEG Fine, JPEG Standard
14bit RAW
Yes
Picture Effect
Posterization (Color), Posterization (B/W), Pop Color, Retro Photo, Partial Color (R/G/B/Y), High Contrast Monochrome, Toy Camera (Normal/Cool/Warm/Green/Magenta)
Soft High-key , Soft Focus (High/Mid/Low), HDR Painting (High/Mid/Low), Rich-tone Monochrome, Miniature (Auto/Top/Middle(H)/Bottom/Right/Middle(V)/Left), Watercolor, Illustration (High/Mid/ Low)
Creative Style
Standard, Vivid, Neutral, Clear, Deep, Light, Portrait, Landscape, Sunset, Night Scene, Autumn leaves, Black & White, Sepia, Style Box (1-6), (Contrast (-3 to +3 steps), Saturation (-3 to +3 steps), Sharpness (-3 to +3 steps))
Picture Profile
Yes (Off / PP1-PP7) Parameters: Black level, Gamma (Movie, Still, Cine1-4, ITU709, ITU709 [800%], S-Log2), Black Gamma, Knee, Color Mode, Color Level, Color Phase, Color Depth, Detail, Copy, Reset
Dynamic Range functions
Off, Dynamic Range Optimizer (Auto/Level (1-5)), Auto High Dynamic Range (Auto Exposure Difference, Exposure Difference Level (1-6 EV, 1.0 EV step))
Color space
sRGB standard (with sYCC gamut) and Adobe RGB standard compatible with TRILUMINOS Color
Delete
Yes

Recording format
AVCHD Ver. 2.0 (Progressive), MP4, XAVC S
Video compression
AVCHD: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, MP4: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, XAVC S:MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
Audio recording format
AVCHD: Dolby Digital (AC-3) 2ch, Dolby Digital Stereo Creator, MP4: MPEG-4 AAC-LC 2ch, XAVC S:LPCM 2ch
Picture Effect
Posterization (Color), Posterization (B/W), Pop Color, Retro Photo, Partial Color (R/G/B/Y), High Contrast Monochrome, Toy Camera (Normal/Cool/Warm/Green/Magenta), Soft High-key
Creative Style
Standard, Vivid, Neutral, Clear, Deep, Light, Portrait, Landscape, Sunset, Night Scene, Autumn leaves, Black & White, Sepia, Style Box (1-6), (Contrast (-3 to +3 steps), Saturation (-3 to +3 steps), Sharpness (-3 to +3 steps))
Picture Profile
Yes (Off / PP1-PP7) Parameters: Black level, Gamma (Movie, Still, Cine1-4, ITU709, ITU709 [800%], S-Log2), Black Gamma, Knee, Color Mode, Color Level, Color Phase, Color Depth, Detail, Copy, Reset
Color space
xvYCC standard (x.v.Color when connected via HDMI cable) compatible with TRILUMINOS Color

1280 x 720 (120p, 50M)
Approx. 50Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1280 x 720 (100p, 50M)
Approx. 50Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (60p, 50M)
Approx. 50Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (50p, 50M)
Approx. 50Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (30p, 50M)
Approx. 50Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (25p, 50M)
Approx. 50Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (24p, 50M)
Approx. 50Mbps (Average bit-rate)

1920 x 1080 (60p, 28M, PS)
Approx. 28Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (50p, 28M, PS)
Approx. 28Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (60i, 24M, FX)
Approx. 24Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (50i, 24M, FX)
Approx. 24Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (60i, 17M, FH)
Approx. 17Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (50i, 17M, FH)
Approx. 17Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (24p, 24M, FX)
Approx. 24Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (25p, 24M, FX)
Approx. 24Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (24p, 17M, FH)
Approx. 17Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1920 x 1080 (25p, 17M, FH)

Approx. 17Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1440 x 1080 (30fps)
Approx. 12Mbps (Average bit-rate)
1440 x 1080 (25fps)
Approx. 12Mbps (Average bit-rate)
VGA (640 x 480, 30fps)
Approx. 3Mbps (Average bit-rate)
VGA (640 x 480, 25fps)
Approx. 3Mbps (Average bit-rate)

Audio Level Display
Yes
Audio Rec Level
Yes
PAL/NTSC Selector
Yes
Dual Video REC
Yes
TC/UB
Yes (TC Format/TC Run/TC Make/UB Time Rec)
Auto Slow Shutter
Yes
REC Control
Yes
HDMI Info. Display
On/Off selectable
HDMI Output
3840 × 2160 (25p)/ 1920 × 1080 (50p)/ 1920 × 1080 (50i)/ 3840 × 2160 (30p/24p)/ 1920 × 1080 (60p/24p)/ 1920 × 108 (60i), YCbCr 4:2:2 8bit/ RGB 8bit

Media
Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo, Memory Stick XC-HG Duo, SD memory card, SDHC memory card (UHS-I compliant), SDXC memory card (UHS-I compliant)
Noise reduction
Long exposure NR: On/Off (available at shutter speeds longer than 1 sec.), High ISO NR: Normal/Low/Off
Multi Frame NR
Auto/ISO 100 to 409600

Modes
Auto/ Daylight/ Shade/ Cloudy/ Incandescent/ Fluorescent / Flash/ Color Temperature & color filter / Custom/ Custom set/ Underwater
AWB micro adjustment
Yes
Bracketing
3 frames, H/L selectable

Type
Contrast-detection AF*5
Focus sensor
"Exmor" CMOS sensor
Focus point
25 points (contrast-detection AF)
Sensitivity range
EV-4 to EV20 (ISO100 equivalent with F2.0 lens attached)
AF mode
AF-S (Single-shot AF), AF-C ( Continuous AF), DMF (Direct Manual Focus), Manual Focus
Focus area
Multi Point (25 points(contrast-detection AF))/ Zone/ Center-weighted/ Flexible Spot (S/M/L)
Eye-start AF
Yes
Lock-on AF
Yes
Eye Focus
Yes
Other features
Focus lock, Eye-Start AF (only with LA-EA2 or LA-EA4 attached(Sold separately))
AF illuminator
Yes (with Built-in LED type)
AF illuminator range
Approx. 0.3m - Approx. 3.0m (With FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS attached)
AF micro adjustment
Yes, (Sold separately) with LA-EA2 or LA-EA4

Metering type
1200-zone evaluative metering
Metering sensor
"Exmor" CMOS sensor
Metering sensitivity
EV-3 to EV20 (at ISO100 equivalent with F2.0 lens attached)
Modes
Multi-segment, Center-weighted, Spot
Exposure modes
AUTO (iAuto/Superior Auto), Programmed AE (P), Aperture priority (A), Shutter-speed priority (S), Manual (M), Movie (Programmed AE (P)/ Aperture priority (A)/ Shutter-speed priority (S)/ Manual (M)), Sweep Panorama, Scene Selection
Scene Selection
Portrait, Landscape, Macro, Sports Action, Sunset, Night Portrait, Night Scene, Hand-held Twilight, Anti Motion Blur
Exposure compensation
+/- 5.0EV(1/3 EV, 1/2 EV steps selectable) (with exposure compensation dial : +/- 3EV (1/3 EV steps))
Bracketing
Bracket: Cont./Bracket: Single, With 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV, 2/3 EV, 1.0 EV, 2.0 EV, 3.0 EV increments, 3/5 frames selectable
AE Lock
Locked when shutter button is pressed halfway. Can be disabled from the Menu. Available with AE lock button.
ISO sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index)
Still images: ISO 100-409600 equivalent (1/3 EV step) (ISO numbers up from ISO 50 can be set as expanded ISO range.), Movies: ISO 200-409600 equivalent (1/3 EV step)

Type
1.3 cm (0.5 type) electronic viewfinder (color)
Number of dots
2,359,296 dots
Brightness control
Auto/Manual (5 steps between -2 and +2)
Color temperature control
Manual (5 steps)
Field coverage
100%
Magnification
Approx. 0.71 x (With 50mm lens at infinity, -1m-1)
Diopter adjustment
-4.0 to +3.0m-1
Eye point
Approx. 27mm from the eyepiece lens, 22mm from the eyepiece frame at -1m-1 (CIPA standard)
Display Contents
Graphic Display, Display All Info., No Disp. Info., Digital Level Gauge, Histogram
LCD screen
7.5cm (3.0-type) type TFT
Number of dots (total)
921,600 dots
Brightness control
Manual (5 steps between -2 and +2), Sunny Weather mode
Adjustable angle
Up by Approx. 90 degrees, Down by Approx. 45 degrees
Display Contents
Graphic Display, Display All Info, No Disp. Info, Digital Level Gauge, Histogram, For viewfinder
Real-time image-adjustment display
On/Off
Quick Navi
Yes
Focus Check
Yes Focus Magnifier (35mm full frame: 4.2x, 8.3x, APS-C: 2.7x, 5.4x)
Zebra
Yes
Peaking MF
Yes (Level setting: High/ Mid/ Low/ Off, Color: White/ Red/ Yellow)
Marker Display
Yes (Center/ Aspect/ Safety Zone/ Guide frame)
Grid Line
Yes (Rule of 3rds Grid/ Square Grid/ Diag. + Square Grid/ Off)

Modes
On/ On (Regist. Faces)/ Off
Face registration
Yes
Face selection
Yes
Max. number of detectable
8


Still images
Yes

Smile Shutter
Smile shutter (selectable from 3 steps)
PlayMemories Camera Apps
Yes
Help guide
Yes
Clock Function Setting
Yes
Area Setting
Yes
Shop Front Mode
Yes
Video Light Mode
Yes
Zoom Ring Rotate
Yes
Eye-Fi ready
Yes*6

Still images
Approx. 2x
Movies
Approx. 2x

Smart zoom (Still images)
35mm full frame: M:Approx. 1.5x, S:Approx. 2x, APS-C: M:Approx. 1.3x, S:Approx. 2x
Digital zoom (Still images)
35mm full frame: L:Approx. 4x, M:Approx. 6.2x, S:Approx. 8x, APS-C: L:Approx. 4x, M:Approx. 5.2x, S:Approx. 8x
Digital zoom (Movie)
35mm full frame: Approx. 4x, APS-C: Approx. 4x

Type
Electronically-controlled, vertical-traverse, focal-plane type
Shutter speed
Still images:1/8000 to 30 sec, Bulb, Movies:1/8000 to 1/4 (1/3 steps) (up to 1/60 in AUTO mode (up to 1/30 in Auto slow shutter mode))
Flash sync. speed
1/250 sec.*7
Electronic Front Curtain Shutter

Yes (On/Off)
Type
Not supported (image stabilization supported on lens)

Control
Pre-flash TTL
Flash compensation
+/- 3.0 EV (switchable between 1/3 and 1/2 EV steps)
Flash bracketing
1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 EV steps, 3/5 frames selectable
Flash modes
Flash off, Autoflash, Fill-flash, Slow Sync., Rear Sync., Red-eye reduction (on/off selectable), Wireless*8, Hi-speed sync.*8
External flash
Sony α System Flash compatible with Multi Interface Shoe, attach the shoe adapter for flash compatible with Auto-lock accessory shoe
FE level lock
Yes

Drive modes
Single Shooting, Continuous shooting, Speed Priority Continuous shooting, Self-timer (10/2 sec delay selectable), Self-timer (Cont.) (with 10 sec delay 3/5 exposures selectable), Bracket: Single, Bracket: Cont., WB Bracket/DRO Bracket
Speed (Approx., max.)
Continuous mode:max. 2.5 fps, Speed Priority Continuous shooting: max. 5 fps*9
No. of frame recordable (Approx.)
Speed Priority Continuous shooting:JPEG Extra fine L: 65 frames, Continuous mode:JPEG Extra fine L: 88 frames, Speed Priority Continuous shooting:JPEG Fine L: 200 frames, Continuous mode:JPEG Fine L: 200 frames, Speed Priority Continuous shooting:JPEG Standard L: 200 frames*9 *10
Continuous mode:JPEG Standard L: 200 frames, Speed Priority Continuous shooting:RAW: 30 frames, Continuous mode:RAW: 61 frames, Speed Priority Continuous shooting:RAW&JPG: 25 frames, Continuous mode:RAW&JPG: 35 frames*9 *10

Modes
Single (with or without shooting information Y RGB histogram & highlight/shadow warning), 9/25-frame index view, Enlarged display mode (L: 13.3x, M: 8.7x, S: 6.7x, Panorama (Standard): 25.6x, Panorama (Wide): 38.8x)
Auto Review (10/5/2 sec, Off), Image orientation (Auto/Manual/Off selectable), Slideshow, Panorama scrolling, Folder selection (Date/ Still/ MP4/ AVCHD/ XAVC S), Forward/Rewind (movie), Delete, Protect

View on Smartphone
Yes
Send to Computer
Yes
View on TV
Yes

One-touch remote
Yes
One-touch sharing
Yes

PC interface
Mass-storage, MTP, PC remote
Multi/Micro USB Terminal
Yes
NFC
Yes (NFC forum Type 3 Tag compatible)
Wireless LAN(built-in)
Yes (Wi-Fi Compatible, IEEE 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz band) )*11 
HD output
HDMI micro connector (Type-D), BRAVIA Sync (link menu), PhotoTV HD, 4K Still Image PB
Multi Interface Shoe
Yes*12
Mic Terminal
Yes (3.5 mm Stereo minijack)
Remote Control
Yes (RMT-DSLR2 (sold separately))
Headphone Terminal
Yes (3.5 mm Stereo minijack)
Vertical Grip Connector
Yes
PC Remote
Yes

Microphone
Built-in stereo microphone or XLR-K1M/ECM-XYST1M (sold separately)
Speaker
Built-in, monaural

Compatible standards
Exif Print, Print Image Matching III, DPOF setting

Custom key settings
Yes
Programmable Setting
Yes (2 sets)

Lens compensation
Peripheral Shading, Chromatic Aberration, Distortion

Battery
One rechargeable battery pack NP-FW50
Still images
Approx. 320 shots (Viewfinder)/ Approx. 380 shots (LCD monitor) (CIPA standard)*13
Movies (actual recording)
Approx. 55 min (Viewfinder)/ Approx. 60 min (LCD monitor) (CIPA standard)*14 *15
Movies (continuous recording)
Approx. 90 min (Viewfinder)/ Approx. 90 min (LCD monitor)*14 *16
Internal battery charge
Yes
External power
AC Adaptor AC-PW20 (sold separately)

With Viewfinder
Still images: Approx. 3.0W (with FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS lens attached), Movies: Approx. 4.5W (with FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS lens attached)
With LCD screen
Still images: Approx. 2.4W (with FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS lens attached), Movies: Approx. 4.5W (with FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS lens attached)

With battery and Memory Stick PRO Duo included (g)
Approx. 489 g
With battery and Memory Stick PRO Duo included (oz)
Approx. 1 lb 1.2 oz
Body only (g)
Approx. 446 g
Body only (oz)
Approx. 15.7 oz

Excluding protrusions (WxHxD) (mm)
Approx. 126.9 x 94.4 x 48.2 mm
Excluding protrusions (WxHxD) (inch)

Approx. 5 x 3 3/4 x 1 15/16 inches
Rechargeable Battery NP-FW50
Yes
Cable Protector
Yes
AC Adaptor AC-UD10
Yes
Battery Charger BC-TRW
Yes
Shoulder strap
Yes
Body cap
Yes
Accessory shoe cap
Yes
Eyepiece cup
Yes
Micro USB cable
Yes


Sony Alpha 7 S