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Harry J Price

Ramanuj Goswami

Mary Ellen Craver

William G Henry

Paul B Gilman, Jr

Michael Phillip Youngblood

Thomas R Dobles

Marian S Henry

Jon A Kapecki

Linda J Knapp

Sandra M Finn

David M Braitsch

Paul B Price

Photographic processing compositions and methods of using in color reversal image formation

Color negative photographic elements can be effectively processed to provide negative color images using bleaching or bleach-fixing compositions in which the primary bleaching agent is a ferric complex of 1,3-propylenediaminetetraacetic acid or a salt thereof. Any potential precipitation of the bleaching agent is inhibited by the presence of at least 0.005 mol/l of an organic polyphosphonic acid, an aminopolysuccinic acid, or a polycarboxylic acid containing at least one hydroxy group as a compound. This compound can be added directly to the bleaching or bleach-fixing composition or introduced from carryover from a previous photoprocessing step.

Method of processing color negative elements

Color reversal photographic elements can be effectively processed to provide positive color images using bleaching compositions in which the primary bleaching agent is a ferric complex of 1,3-propylenediaminetetraacetic acid or a salt thereof. Any potential precipitation of the bleaching agent is inhibited by the presence of at least 0.005 mol/l of an organic polyphosphonic acid, an aminopolysuccinic acid, or a polycarboxylic acid containing at least one hydroxy group as a compound. This compound can be added directly to the bleaching composition or introduced from carryover from a previous photoprocessing step, such as a prebleaching step using color reversal processing.

Photographic bleaching compositions and method of processing color reversal elements

Specific aromatic compounds having an extended planar &pgr; system are useful as spectral sensitizing dye stain reducing agents in photographic processing compositions and methods for providing color or black-and-white images in various photographic silver halide materials. These compounds are devoid of diaminostilbene fragments or fused triazole nuclei. They are particularly useful in fixing and bleaching compositions in the processing of color photographic silver halide materials, but can also be used in various other processing compositions.

Photographic processing compositions containing stain reducing agent

Potographic processing compositions containing stain reducing agent

Specific aromatic compounds having an extended planar .pi. system are useful as spectral sensitizing dye stain reducing agents in photographic processing compositions and methods for providing color or black-and-white images in various photographic silver halide materials. These compounds are devoid of diaminostilbene fragments or fused triazole nuclei. They are particularly useful in fixing and bleaching compositions in the processing of color photographic silver halide materials, but can also be used in various other processing compositions.

Specific aromatic compounds having an extended planar .pi. system are useful as spectral sensitizing dye stain reducing agents in photographic processing compositions and methods for providing color or black-and-white images in various photographic silver halide materials. These compounds are devoid of diaminostilbene fragments or fused triazole nuclei. They are particularly useful in fixing and bleaching compositions in the processing of color photographic silver halide materials, but can be used in various other processing compositions.

Photographic processing methods using compositions containing stain

Color photographic elements can be effectively processed to provide color images using biodegradable bleaching compositions in which the bleaching agent includes a pyridinecarboxylic acid or 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid chelating ligand. The bleaching composition is stabilized by incorporation of an organic amine base instead of the conventional inorganic base.

Stabilized bleaching compositions and method of processing color elements

Color reversal photographic elements can be effectively processed to provide color positive images using biodegradable bleaching compositions when the following fixing compositions contain an uncomplexed aminodisuccinic acid additive. The presence of the additive in the fixing composition seems to reduce the retained iron from use of the biodegradable bleaching composition, thereby reducing yellow stain and other undesirable effects in the color images, and iron precipitates in the fixing bath.

Method of processing color reversal films with reduced iron retention

A process for controlling the silver halide grain-to-grain distribution of a variable contrast dye in a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer of a variable contrast photographic element, and thereby adjusting the low contrast characteristic curve of the element, is disclosed comprising the process steps of adding a green variable contrast sensitizing dye of the following formula (I) to a silver halide emulsion for a variable contrast photographic element, adding a blue sensitizing dye of the following formula (II) to the same silver halide emulsion, and coating the emulsion on a support. In the process, the green and blue sensitizing dyes are added to the emulsion at substantially the same time, and the green dye is added in an amount less than that required to impart maximum sensitivity to all of the silver halide in the emulsion. ##STR1## In formula (I), R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 each independently represent hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, alkylamino, alkylthio, aryl, aryloxy, arylamino or arylthio. R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each independently represent substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl. X represents a counterion as needed to balance the charge of the molecule. In formula (II), Z represents the atoms necessary to complete an optionally further substituted five- or six-membered heterocyclic ring, R.sup.8 represents substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl, and R.sup.9 represents hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl, or a heterocycle.

Method for controlling characteristics curve shape for variable contrast

A variable contrast photographic element containing a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is disclosed wherein the silver halide is sensitized with a benzimidazolooxacarbocyanine dye of the following formula (I) in an amount less than that required to impart maximum sensitivity to all of the silver halide in the emulsion. ##STR1## In formula (I), R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 each independently represent hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, alkylamino, alkylthio, aryl, aryloxy, arylamino, or arylthio. R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each independently represent substituted or unsubstituted alkyl. R.sup.5 represents a substituent containing an electron withdrawing group. X represents a counterion as needed to balance the charge of the molecule. Use of dyes of formula (I) having an R.sup.5 substituent which contains an electron withdrawing group has been found to beneficially reduce the sensitivity of variable contrast photographic elements at wavelengths longer than 570 nm, thereby enhancing safelight tolerance, while still maintaining good spectral sensitivity at wavelengths in the green region less than 560 nm.

Green sensitizing dyes for variable contrast photographic elements

The invention relates to a level indicating device including a container or reservoir and a length of tubing extending from the container near the bottom thereof. Narrow, inverted cups are adhered to the sides of the container so that they may be slipped over the top of a stake driven into the ground to provide a firm, stable support for the container while the tubing is moved to different locations to establish a reference horizontal plane.

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Webster, NY, United States of America

Harry J Price