Esa Muikku wrote:It has been a well-known fact that not a single official colour photo of Finnish armoured vehicles exists in the SA-kuva collection.
Panssari Salama wrote:
Such a pity we don't have any original colour pictures such as this one.
War photographer Paavo Poutilainen shot 10 minutes worth of colour 16 mm film in East Karelia during the summer of 1942. The short film was called "
Värivälähdyksiä Äänisen rannoilta". This was later published in the DVD collection "Jatkosodan katsaukset II: kamerat asemissa" in 2009.
In the beginning of the film footage shot by Poutilainen, there is a 10 second long clip of two T-26 tanks rolling around the streets of Äänislinna. Later there is also a very brief shot of a staff car in three-colour camouflage.