Emmanuel BIGLER
31-Mar-2008, 06:02
Most of our readers are probably familiar with the name of Michael Michaelovitch Roosinov, a Russian engineer, a pionner of modern wide angle lenses.
Relevant discussion in the archives :
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/archive/index.php/t-9784.html
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00O6xC
So far the only information I knew about this inventor was the text of the 1946 US patent
http://www.google.com/patents?id=_vJQAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=2516724
But I'd like to know more about the man. I attempted several Internet searches but all drove me in to endless loops back to the previous references. Then a reader of our French MF/LF forum, Arne, found a reference to a Russian web page.
The name of the inventor is spelled Roosinov Michael Michaelovitch in the US patent.
However a spelling closer to the original Russian name would be: Russinov Mikhaïl Mikhaïlovich (in fact Rusinov is even better, see below)
http://www.russar.spb.ru/img/top.gif
This is the relevant page for those who can read Russian ! (do not forget to switch the settings your web browser to Russian encoding !)
http://www.russar.spb.ru/science_2.html
So, at least I can add a portrait of Mikhaïl Mikhaïlovich Russinov to the gallery I have in my copy of Kinsglake "History of the Photographic lens".
Those of you -- I know you are many ;)-- who maintain a private chapel with a burning candle in front of the Icons of All Saint Optics Designers, besides Saint Paul (Rudolph), Saint Ludwig (Bertele) and Saint Pierre (Angénieux), you shoud add the portrait of: Saint Mikhaïl (Russinov)
http://www.russar.spb.ru/img/rusinov.jpg
And for those who want to read some technical details of the story and the link to Roosinov/Russinov's and Bertele's famous designs, look here;
http://books.google.fr/books?id=OJrJrEJ-r9QC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=zeiss+biogon+patent&source=web&ots=YY-n9Ot39B&sig=wXbc2stYZgaYHyVYtAcppnT7Bj8&hl=fr#PPA151,M1
US patent 2734423 by Ludwig Bertele
http://www.google.com/patents?id=9RdRAAAAEBAJ&dq=2734423
Relevant discussion in the archives :
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/archive/index.php/t-9784.html
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00O6xC
So far the only information I knew about this inventor was the text of the 1946 US patent
http://www.google.com/patents?id=_vJQAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=2516724
But I'd like to know more about the man. I attempted several Internet searches but all drove me in to endless loops back to the previous references. Then a reader of our French MF/LF forum, Arne, found a reference to a Russian web page.
The name of the inventor is spelled Roosinov Michael Michaelovitch in the US patent.
However a spelling closer to the original Russian name would be: Russinov Mikhaïl Mikhaïlovich (in fact Rusinov is even better, see below)
http://www.russar.spb.ru/img/top.gif
This is the relevant page for those who can read Russian ! (do not forget to switch the settings your web browser to Russian encoding !)
http://www.russar.spb.ru/science_2.html
So, at least I can add a portrait of Mikhaïl Mikhaïlovich Russinov to the gallery I have in my copy of Kinsglake "History of the Photographic lens".
Those of you -- I know you are many ;)-- who maintain a private chapel with a burning candle in front of the Icons of All Saint Optics Designers, besides Saint Paul (Rudolph), Saint Ludwig (Bertele) and Saint Pierre (Angénieux), you shoud add the portrait of: Saint Mikhaïl (Russinov)
http://www.russar.spb.ru/img/rusinov.jpg
And for those who want to read some technical details of the story and the link to Roosinov/Russinov's and Bertele's famous designs, look here;
http://books.google.fr/books?id=OJrJrEJ-r9QC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=zeiss+biogon+patent&source=web&ots=YY-n9Ot39B&sig=wXbc2stYZgaYHyVYtAcppnT7Bj8&hl=fr#PPA151,M1
US patent 2734423 by Ludwig Bertele
http://www.google.com/patents?id=9RdRAAAAEBAJ&dq=2734423