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Digital Technician.

On a photoshoot, the person responsible for the digital equipment such as the camera and the computer to which the camera or digital back is tethered. They import images, regulate the white balance and exposure, oversee proper color management for monitors and printers, alert the photographer to adjust the camera due to a change in lighting conditions if it's necessary, and alert the photographer of focusing issues. The most common setup is a Mac Pro with Mac OSX running Capture One, but Adobe Lightroom and Hasselblad Phocus are also used when Capture One doesn't support tethered capture with the camera or digital back used.

More frequently, however, they deal with Capture One's annoying habit of crashing every so often, troubleshoot people's iPhone issues between shots, quietly change the camera settings on their own from the computer if the photographer bumps something by accident, wipe art directors' fingerprints from the monitors regularly, work many hours after the shoot when the art director suddenly decides s/he needs full-res JPGs instead of 1200x1800px JPGs even though the minute details are negligible for something that will be retouched and then printed at 1"x1.5" in a newspaper flyer that will be thrown away by the majority of people who receive it.
How many photographers does it take to change a lightbulb?

None. The assistant does it, but the digitech points out the bulb was fine; they just didn't flip the switch.
digitech by digitech April 2, 2013
Related Words

Digitent 

Digit-ent (digital+content)
Of, relating to, and everything about digital content.
Have you checked their account? Their digitent is insanely creative!
Digitent by Digiclique March 1, 2021
The important. The ***ELITE***. On internet message boards, a certain creme de la creme is defined by the member number. 1000 is a wonderful number, and yet, is the first of the worthless.

Even more important, of course, are the PRIME examples, like 877. That defines the Upper Elite Tier.
Oh, Pickles is a 3-digiter? His opinion is worth more.
3-digiter by MelvinTScupper October 27, 2007

digitec metalmaster 

the sorriest distortion pedal in the world
(refer to Brad Butler)

digitile 

Turning truckers into robots
I don't want them to digitile us.
digitile by ElderGeek March 7, 2022

digiteen 

A term for people who were born between 1999-present.

Digital + teen.

We use computers as tools, not just productivity devices. We see our computers as art, not just a window to do one thing.

We see the world in general as art. We slow down, observe and just have fun. In other words we're just vibin'.
Don't even bother to use it in every day language. It's a made up word because Gen Z could go without a name forever. The teen comes from the fact that everybody is either a young adult or an adolescent. 22...21...20...19...18...etc. Honestly YZK made things break. But it was so long ago, most young adults forget about it, weren't there, or were too young to remember anything. Now we have phones in our pockets that are a window to everything in a box. Portability brought us back into the world, but if you've got the right balance, you take in the whole world around you and stay in decent shape. We're only young once. Let's enjoy it while we can. Oh well. Enjoy the new word. Digiteen. Better than Gen Z, right?
digiteen by WordCoiner72 April 7, 2022