Finnish defense archive releases hundreds of color wartime photos

[02Pilot]

Quite an extensive collection. I wonder what emulsion they were shot with; looks like Kodachrome to me, but I don't know much about what (if any) other color options were available at that time.

http://sa-kuva.fi/webneologineng.html

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Kiitos! Very interesting to see.

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

That is, I imagine a small sample of all the pictures taken during the period, but interesting all the same.

There's always a bit of a problem with pictures of World War II Finnish aircraft, on account of their unfortunate choice of insignia. I noticed only one such image in the first ten or so pages, so I imagine there's been some thoughtful editing applied.

By the way, I'm impressed with the Sherman tank picture on your "filmosaur" page. It looks like it may be a "Firefly", with the British 76.2mm gun fitted.

 

[02Pilot]

That is, I imagine a small sample of all the pictures taken during the period, but interesting all the same.

There's always a bit of a problem with pictures of World War II Finnish aircraft, on account of their unfortunate choice of insignia. I noticed only one such image in the first ten or so pages, so I imagine there's been some thoughtful editing applied.

By the way, I'm impressed with the Sherman tank picture on your "filmosaur" page. It looks like it may be a "Firefly", with the British 76.2mm gun fitted.

Small sample perhaps, but I was impressed that they decided to publish them so long after the war. The insignia is unfortunate, moreso because most people don't realize it was not modeled on the German markings, but actually predated them.

Thanks for the kind words on the tank photo. It's actually a U.S. M4A3E8, equipped with the long 76mm gun (as opposed to the British 17pdr). More specifically, it is "Thunderbolt VII", the gate guard at the U.S. Militiary Academy Museum at West Point.

 

[johannielscom]

Thanks for posting. Interesting.

Doesn't look like Kodachrome at all to me, more like the only Agfa film that was able to do color back in those days.

Not too long ago I saw an extensive collection of images (link came through here as well) shot by a German photographer close to Hitlers gang and they had the same color palette.

Anyone that can recall the link of that collection, and the name of the film?

 

[Mablo]

The film is indeed Agfa and the ISO is about 25. Those days was you needed to send the film back to Germany for development.

 

[02Pilot]

It certainly makes more sense that it was Agfa. It's not as if Finnish photographers were going to be able to send film to Kodak in Rochester for processing in 1943....

 

[jarski]

thx for sharing!

 

[02Pilot]

Looking at the photos on my computer at home, rather than my netbook, it looks a lot less like Kodachrome. In any case, hard to know if they did any restoration on these, and if so, how much.

 

[B-9]

There are some great images in this set! Thanks for sharing