Our Cameras Are Academy Award Winners!

If you saw or heard about this year's Academy Award-winning documentary, "The Cove," you probably know the filmmakers used state-of-the-art camera equipment to expose the secret dolphin slaughter that takes place annually in a secluded cove in Taiji, Japan. In a unique twist of fate, we just learned that our San Diego video production company OWNS some of that equipment! Here's how it happened: about a year ago, we bought two Sony XDHD camera packages from a mysterious Colorado production company after a series of e-mail exchanges and phone calls. Without saying exactly what they had been shooting, a company rep explained that they needed to sell the gear to help fund post-production on their "marine life film." Colorado? Marine life? Whatever. But the equipment was in excellent condition -- so we arranged for shipment and put it to good use over the last year. Recently, when we finally got around to watching "The Cove," something clicked. The Sony camera shown in several scenes looked awfully familiar, as did a tripod. We also recognized the names of director Louie Psihoyos and unit production manager Joseph Chisholm from those mysterious e-mails and phone calls a year earlier. A follow-up e-mail to Psihoyos confirmed what we suspected -- and we're proud to say that we own some of the same camera equipment that brought the filmmakers an Academy Award for best documentary feature. We're also proud that our purchase helped the filmmakers finish their courageous and important project!