DIT, The profession - Digital image Technician

Juanjo Camaleón Rental · September 12, 2023

DIT, The profession. Today in the Camaleon Rental blog we are going to speak about the role of a DIT (DIGITAL image technician) The first question is to define what a DIT

DIGITAL IMAGE TECHNICIAN

Today in the Camaleon Rental blog we are going to speak about the role of a DIT. The first question is to define what a DIT is as well as determine if this position belongs to the camera crew or to the postproduction crew. The answer would be that he is kind of a liaison between both department, even though if we have to make a choice we would say that he is part of the camera department since he works on set.

DIT WORK

The DIT profession (Digital image technician), arrives with the appearance of the first high definition cameras and then with the digital cinema cameras. At this point we should remember that when these cameras arrived both directors of photography and assistant cameramen came from working for many years with film cameras. So after the arrival of such new and different gear, it was necessary the inclusion of a new figure to the camera crew in order to advise the DoP on how to squeeze the best out of this new technology that, as we all know reacts in a very different way to exposure. The DIT helps him out thanks to the use of waveform monitors and vectorscopes. But another very important task of the DIT was to help the first and second assistant camera to choose and set camera parameters such as the resolution, codecs, speed, etc of the camera, as well as the navigation through the several pages of the menu menu with which the ACs had to deal for the first time.

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