Eastman-kodak Company

David E Fenton

Seshadri Jagannathan

Samuel Chen

Donald L Black

Allen K Tsaur

Joseph C Deaton

Kenneth Joseph Reed

Tommie L Royster, Jr

John F Sawyer

Lucius S Fox

Richard L Parton

Ramesh Jagannathan

Myra T Olm

Jeffrey L Hall

Steven G Link

Richard L Daubendiek

Thomas L Penner

Lois A Buitano

Jerome Robert Lenhard

William J Harrison

Mamie Kam-Ng

Roger A Bryant

Sharon G Johnston

Michael G Antoniades

Harold G Judd

Eleanor Chaffee

Donald H Hunger

David B Moorehouse

Joseph J Tiberio

This invention relates to a silver halide photographic element comprising a support bearing a cyan dye image forming unit comprised of at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion, a magenta dye image forming unit comprised of at least one green sensitive silver halide emulsion, and a yellow dye image forming unit comprised of at least one blue sensitive silver halide emulsion; wherein the at least one green sensitive silver halide emulsion comprises two absorptance peaks, the first peak being between 515 and 540 nm (short wavelength peak) and the second peak being between 565 and 590 nm, (long wavelength peak) and wherein

Photographic film element containing an emulsion with dual peek green responsivity

Fragmentable electron donor compounds used in conjunction with epitaxially sensitized silver halide emulsions

Photographic material having enhanced light absorption

A dimethylamine silver bromide complex is used as a single source precursor for nucleation of silver bromide crystals.

Preparation and use of a dimethylamine silver bromide complex as a

A dimeitylarnine silver bromo-iodide complex is used as a single source precursor for iodide incorporation in silver bromide crystals.

Preparation and use of a dimethylamine silver bromo-iodide complex as a

A process of preparing a photographic emulsion having radiation-sensitive silver iodohalide grains. Iodide is introduced into the grains by releasing iodide ions from iodate (IO.sub.3.sup.-). Release of iodide ions from the IO.sub.3.sup.- is employed to enhance the uniformity of iodide availability during emulsion preparation, either during grain precipitation or subsequent halide conversion. The process of the invention is in one preferred form directed to the partial halide conversion of tabular grains. A speed-granularity advantage is demonstrated.

Process for the preparation of silver halide emulsions having iodide

Tabular grain emulsions of enhanced photographic sensitivity are disclosed in which the tabular grains contain a maximum surface iodide concentration along their edges and a lower surface iodide concentration within their corners than elsewhere along their edges. The grains contain a dopant capable of providing shallow electron trapping sites.

Photographic emulsions of enhanced sensitivity

A photographic emulsion is disclosed comprised of coprecipitated radiation-sensitive silver halide grains containing greater than 70 mole percent bromide, based on silver, and exhibiting a coefficient of variation of less than 30 percent. Greater than 90 percent of total projected area of the grains is accounted for by tabular grains having {111} major faces, exhibiting a thickness of less than 0.07 .mu.m, and having latent image forming silver salt epitaxy chemical sensitization sites on their surfaces, and a dispersing medium that contains a grain dispersity reducing concentration of a polyalkylene oxide block copolymer surfactant comprised of two terminal lipophilic alkylene oxide block units linked by a hydrophilic alkylene oxide block unit accounting for from 4 to 96 percent of the molecular weight of the polymer. The emulsions offer unexpectedly low levels of minimum density and can be more easily manufactured as compared to conventional ultrathin tabular grain emulsions with comparably limited grain dispersity.

Limited dispersity epitaxially sensitized ultrathin tabular grain

A radiation-sensitive photographic emulsion is disclosed containing a gelatino-vehicle and tabular grains accounting for at least 70 percent of total grain projected area comprised of, prior to house conversion, at least 90 mole percent bromide and, after house conversion, up to 12 mole percent iodide, based on total silver, having {111} major faces that form corners joined by linear edges, and containing halide conversion dislocations that are confined to corner regions. Superior performance and selected site halide conversion can be realized by maintaining a pBr of less than 3.5 and by employing for halide conversion an iodide ion source exhibiting a second order reaction rate constant with the gelatino-vehicle of less than 10.sup.-3 mole.sup.-1 sec.sup.-1.

Tabular grain emulsions with selected site halide conversions and

A radiographic element for medical diagnostic imaging is disclosed comprised of a transparent support and first and second silver halide emulsion layer units coated on opposite sides of the film support, each emulsion layer unit being comprised of a silver iodohalide tabular grain emulsion containing less than 5 mole percent iodide, based on silver. An improvement in speed in relation to granularity is obtained by the presence of tabular grains having {111} major faces, containing a maximum surface iodide concentration along their edges, and a lower iodide concentration within their corners than elsewhere along their edges.

Radiographic elements for medical diagnostic imaging exhibiting improved

Tabular grain emulsions of enhanced photographic sensitivity are disclosed in which the tabular grains contain a maximum surface iodide concentration along their edges and a lower surface iodide concentration within their corners than elsewhere along their edges.

A color photographic silver halide negative working duplicating element and process comprising (A) a magenta colored masking coupler in at least one blue-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer; and (B) a combination of (i) masking couplers and (ii) color contamination of at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer enables upon exposure and processing of the element formation of a duplicate image that enables formation of a print image that is visually indistinguishable from the original image. The color photographic silver halide duplicating element is useful in forming duplicate images, especially for color motion picture films.

Color photographic silver halide duplicating element and process

Silver iodobromide tabular grain emulsions of enhanced photographic sensitivity are disclosed. The silver iodobromide grains contain from 2 to less than 10 mole percent iodide, exhibit a coefficient of variation of less than 20 percent, and consisting essentially of tabular grains having opposed parallel major faces. Each of the tabular silver bromoiodide grains exhibit an iodide concentration in excess of 6 mole percent within a surface region extending to a depth of less than 0.02 .mu.m and exhibit a central iodide concentration of less than 2 mole percent. The tabular grain emulsion is prepared by providing within a reaction vessel a population of silver bromide or iodobromide host grains exhibiting a coefficient of variation of less than 20 percent and containing less than 2 mole percent iodide consisting essentially of tabular grains and introducing silver, bromide and iodide ions into the reaction vessel for deposition onto the major faces on the host tabular grains, with iodide ions accounting for at least 25 mole percent of total halide ions introduced.

Tabular grain silver iodobromide emulsion of improved sensitivity and

A color photographic silver halide negative working duplicating element comprising a support bearing, in order from the support, at least one red-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer package comprising at least one cyan image-dye forming coupler that is capable upon exposure and processing of forming a cyan image dye that absorbs in the range of the original image; at least one green-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer package comprising at least one magenta image-dye forming coupler that is capable, upon exposure and processing, of forming a magenta image dye that absorbs in the range of the original image; and at least one blue-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer package comprising at least one yellow image-dye forming coupler that is capable upon exposure and processing of forming a yellow image dye that absorbs in the range of the original image. The silver halide particles in the fastest blue sensitive layer have an equivalent spherical diameter no greater than 0.3 microns, while in the remainder of the layers the silver halide particles have an equivalent spherical diameter of no greater than 0.23 microns. The silver level in the fastest blue sensitive layer is no greater than 30 mg/square foot. A sufficient red absorber is present so that the red record MTF(12) is at least 95% of the green record MTF(12) and the red record F50 is no more than 6/mm less than the green record F50.

Color film with closely matched acutance between different color records

Novel tabular grain emulsions and a process for their preparation are disclosed in which silver bromoiodide tabular grains account for greater than 97 percent of total grain projected area and the coefficient of variation of the total grain population is less than 25 percent. This is achieved by forming in a first reaction vessel and transporting to a second reaction vessel a population of silver bromide grain nuclei in the form of regular octahedra having an equivalent circular diameter of less than 40 nanometers and a coefficient of variation of less than 50 percent and in the second reaction vessel converting the grain nuclei into a grain population containing parallel twin planes in more than 90 percent of the grains, so that upon further growth silver bromoiodide tabular grains of desired properties can be realized. A photographic element is disclosed comprised of a support, a first silver halide emulsion layer responsive to minus blue (500 to 700 nm) light and a second silver halide emulsion layer positioned to overlie the first emulsion layer. In the second emulsion layer greater than 97 percent of the total projected area of grains having an equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.2 .mu.m is accounted for by silver bromoiodide tabular grains having an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.7 .mu.m and an average thickness of less than 0.07 .mu.m.

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Fairport, NY, United States of America

David E Fenton