About us
*Our complete name, “CINE
FOTO CENTER NOVACON do BRASIL INSTRUMENTACAO CIENTIFICA INDUSTRIA E
COMERCIO LTDA” has its origins from the
date of our foundation , 1972 . Thus translating our marketing
direction, Photography, and our motto, NOVA
CONceptio, from the Latin, New Concepts.
*Our commercial photographic
roots began although in
1967 ,when we first introduced and stablished in Brazil
the pre-sales camera checking to
the former Russian equipment importer.
*Due our formation in engineering areas of
Metallurgical, Electronics , Mechanics and Economics, we started our
own firm and since the beginning, we
devoted ourselves to the niche market, constructing unobtainable items,
custom fitted adapters and special order equipments.
*Through direct contact, and changing information with
the consumers, users, scientists, and researchers, using all kind of
top technology equipments, we felt their real desires, and what they
really needed to better complement their work. So we
begun to translate their wishes
into engineering language, leading us, now in having today an archive
of far more than 400 unique new projects
and interesting solution approaches seen by new sighting angles.
*Our previous photographical experience from the `50`s were
now gathered towards our business, of course strengthed by the Russian
equipment specialization, which rendered ourselves high skills and
techniques and a very unique position as tech advisors.We really
invested on high end researches.
*From 1975. due the Brazilian importing restrictions , we became project consultant of various firms and government departments who decided to develop and build their own equipment in Brazil with Brazilian technology.
*Respectively in 1989 and 1990,
we acquired twice the best
year project of “10,000 Photographic
Ideas” promoted by the known magazine “Sovetskoe Foto”, respectively
with a “Daguerreotype XXI Century” and “-
VERTEX-Medium Format Camera Using Soviet Lenses”.
*Also, in 1989 and 1998, we
shared with the
exhibition of a “Giroux Daguerreotype Camera Replica” in two FUNARTE
events.- “Photography Sesquicentenaire Day” (1989) and
“First Century of D. Pedro II Photographic Collection” (1998).
*In 1993 and 2003 we
shared the III and VIII CONGRESOS DE LA FOTOGRAFIA ANTIGUA, from
SOCIEDAD IBEROAMERICANA DE LA HISTORIA DE LA FOTOGRAFIA, respectively
with –“Recycled Proposals of Daguerreotyping” and – “Up dating Old Mechanical Projects in
Cameras and Stereoscopy”.
*At 2003, member of the “SOCIEDAD
IBEROAMERICANA DE LA HISTORIA DE LA FOTOGRAFIA”.
*At 2003, we submitted to
“STEREO CLUB FRANCAISE”, the
world´s oldest stereo association, a full professional stereo
system with all affordable
composing items intended for a high diffusion of stereo photography,
which was effusively accepted.
*Recently we begun cooperating
with the PONTIFICIA
UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA of RIO de JANEIRO, builting for them, the first
metalurgical high temperature stereo
microscope,- with auto focusing capabilities, and in-time; observation,
photographical recording and X-ray diffraction registering,- known in
the international literature.
*A series of other
projects, like a complete self
contained handful macro camera operating in the area of 1/17 up to 1/1,
and an ultra compact telescope with 4 fold ray trace which performs of being isostatic,
isometric, which has no mechanical axle, nor gripping point being
unable to vibrate, favouring high magnifications.
*Also a series of various and unique interesting
optical devices.
*Dear sirs, due
a series of contacts with several precision machine builders
world over, we can develop any optical and micro mechanical high-end
project you need or want, and plan serial production for them.