Digital Cinematography, 2nd Edition

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work, and the DIT answers directly to the cinema-

tographer for direction; therefore, this is a camera

department position. The position was created as a

response to the transition from the long established

lm medium into digital cinema. The DIT’s job

is to work with the cinematographer and help in

monitoring exposure, setting up “look-up tables”

(LUTs), camera settings, and media management.

I believe that every narrative digital cinema

project should have a DIT. Narrative lm making

presents so many challenges to the cinematog-

rapher on a moment to moment basis, that the

extra set of hands is alw