Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Kiyoshi Nakazyo

Toshio Kawagishi

Masakazu Morigaki

Nobuo Furutachi

Akio Okumura

Keisuke Shiba

Takeshi Hirose

Keiji Mihayashi

Seiji Ichijima

Atsuaki Arai

Nobuo Seto

Takatoshi Ishikawa

Hidetoshi Kobayashi

Akira Abe

Tadahisa Sato

Kozo Aoki

Shinji Ueda

Yukio Yokota

Yasushi Oishi

Kozo Inouye

Sadao Kamei

Atsushi Sugizaki

Osamu Takahashi

Keiichi Adachi

Akira Sato

Yoshihiro Fujita

Minoru Sato

Minoru Sakai

Hideaki Naruse

Noriyuki Inoue

Kohzaburoh Yamada

Mitsugu Tanaka

Nobuo Tsuji

Kotaro Nakamura

Shinzo Kishimoto

Mikio Ihama

Shinji Sakaguchi

Michio Ono

Kazuaki Yoshida

Akio Mitsui

Kazunori Hasebe

Nobuo Sakai

Koji Tamoto

Genichi Furusawa

Reiichi Ohi

Tadaaki Tani

Hiroshi Fukuzawa

Shigeru Shibayama

Seiki Sakanoue

Yoshikazu Fujita

Genichi Hurusawa

Toshio Kawagashi

A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide light-sensitive layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein the support comprises a poly(alkylene aromatic dicarboxylate) having a glass transition temperature of from 50.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. and is heat-treated at a temperature of not lower than 40.degree. C., but lower than the glass transition temperature for 0.1 to 1500 hours after molding the polymer into the support and before the coating of the silver halide light-sensitive layer, and said at least one light-insensitive layer contains a dispersion of crystallites of at least one dye represented by general formula (I):

Silver halide photographic material and method for processing the same

A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer. The silver halide color photographic material contains a developing solution-deactivated type timing DIR which forms either a nondiffusing dye or a dye dissolved out from the light-sensitive material during development and an acylacetamide type coupler having a specific acyl group and/or an N,N-substituted linear or cyclic malondiamide type coupler.

Silver halide color photographic material

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon a layer containing an acylacetamide-type coupler having an acyl group represented by the following formula (YI) and/or a coupler represented by the following formula (1) or (2), wherein the support is made of a poly(alkylene aromatic dicarboxylate) and has a glass transition point of from 50.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. and is heat-treated at a temperature falling within the range from 40.degree. C. to lower than the glass transition point before or after having been coated with a subbing layer and before being coated with silver halide light-sensitive layers, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituent; and Q represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming, along with C in the formula, a 3-membered to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3-membered to 6-membered hetero ring having in the ring structure at least one hetero atom selected from among N, O, S and P, ##STR2## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; X.sub.3 represents an organic residue for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group along with &gt;N-- in the formula; Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and Z represents a group which splits off from the formula when the coupler represented by the formula reacts with an oxidation product of a developing agent.

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having on one side thereof at least one silver halide emulsion layer corresponding to each of the colors cyan, magenta, and yellow in which each of the colors cyan, magenta and yellow, respectively, are formed, wherein the layer which forms a magenta color is a green sensitive layer comprising (A) at least one coupler represented by formula (I) or formula (II) below ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R'.sub.2 and X are as defined in the above specification and (B) silver halide grains which have been spectrally sensitized in such a way that they have a peak sensitivity between 540 nm and 555 nm by at least one spectrally sensitizing dye represented by the formulae (A), (B) and (C) below ##STR2## wherein W.sub.1, W.sub.2, V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3, V.sub.4, V.sub.5, V.sub.6, R.sub.21, R.sub.22, R.sub.23, R.sub.24, R.sub.25, R.sub.26, R.sub.27, R.sub.28, R.sub.29, Y, X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3 and the subscripts, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s and t are defined as in the above specification, with the proviso that at least one of R.sub.21 and R.sub.22 ; at least one of R.sub.23, R.sub.24 and R.sub.25 ; or at least one of R.sub.26, R.sub.27, R.sub.28 and R.sub.29 represents an alkyl group or an aralkyl group which contains a sulfo group or a salt thereof a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, or a hydroxyl group provided that the speed at the spectral sensitivity peak wavelength of the green sensitive layer is twice or more of the speed at 500 nm.

Silver halide color photographic materials containing combinations of

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material includes red-, green- and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and a non-light-sensitive layer, and contains a dye of the following formula (I). The emulsion layer or the non-light-sensitive layer contains a yellow coupler of the following formula (1) or (2), or an acylacetamide type yellow coupler having an acyl group of the following formula (Y): ##STR1## where X and Y represent an electron attractive group, or when coupled with each other, XY represents an acidic nucleus, Ar represents a phenyl group or a heterocyclic group, and L.sup.1, L.sup.2 and L.sup.3 represent a methine group, ##STR2## where X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sub.3 represents an organic group which forms a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with &gt;N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a split-off group, ##STR3## where D.sup.1 represents a monovalent group, and Q represents a non-metallic atomic group required to form, together with the C, a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring.

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

A method for producing color images comprising developing a negative silver halide color photographic materials and an internal latent-image type direct positive silver halide color photogaphic material, with the same developer having a pH of 9.0 to 11.5, said direct positive photographic material containing at least one compound represented by formula (N-I) as nucleating agent and at least one compound represented by (I) or (II) as magenta coupler, thereby ensuring high color reproducibility to both photographic materials: ##STR1## wherein the symbols and substituents of said formulae are as defined in the specification.

Method of forming color images

There is disclosed a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color-developing agent. In the method a silver halide color photographic material which comprises a pyrazoloazole-type coupler and an image-dye stabilizer, and has at least one of the layers comprising a silver halide emulsion of a high silver chloride and the total coating amount of silver of 0.75 g/m.sup.2 or below is processed, after exposure to light, with a color developer containing a specified amount of chloride ions and bromide ions, to improve development treatment characteristics, desilvering ability, and stability of an image.

Method for processing silver halide color photographic material

A process for forming a color image wherein a color photographic material is developed with a processing solution containing a solvent for the silver halide in the presence of an aromatic primary amino color devloping agent. The color photographic material comprises, on a support, at least one layer containing (1) a coupler capable of forming a dye by reaction with an oxidized aromatic primary amino color developing agent and having a dye covering power of at least 0.75 and (2) a silver chlorobromide emulsion or silver chlorobromide emulsion containing at least 90 molar % of silver chloride.

Process for forming color image

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comprising the step of:

Method for processing a silver halide color photographic material

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material for prints comprising a color developing step, a bleach-fixing step, and either a stabilizing step or a water washing step is described, wherein the silver halide color photographic material comprises a reflective support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a silver halide having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mol % and substantially not containing silver iodide, and the color developing step is conducted using a processing solution that does not substantially contain benzyl alcohol. According to the method of the present invention, the amount of water required in a water washing step or a stabilizing step can be greatly reduced without decreasing liquid stability of the water for washing or the stabilizing solution, and color prints having improved preservability are obtained. The method is particularly useful when the silver halide color photographic material contains a pyrazoloazole type magenta coupler.

Method for processing silver halide color photographic material for

The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising (i) at least one 5-pyrazolone magenta coupler possessing an elimination group represented by general formula (I) in coupling posiitons, and (ii) at least one compound represented by general formula (A): ##STR1## wherein L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a methylene group or an ethylene group;

A two-part bleach-fixing solution composition comprising of a first concentrate composition containing a reducing compound comprising a silver halide solvent and a preservative as main components; and a second concentrate composition having a pH of 1.5 or less, containing an oxidizing compound comprising a bleaching agent and an acid as main components. The invention also relates to a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material by the steps of: (a) developing an exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler represented by formula (I) or (II); at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler represented by formula (III) or (IV); and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler represented by formula (V): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.4 each represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, an aromatic amino group or a heterocyclic amino group; R.sub.5 represents an aliphatic group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.6 each represents hydrogen, a halogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aliphatic oxy group or an acylamino group; R.sub.7 and R.sub.9 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group; R.sub.8 represents hydrogen, an aliphatic acyl group, an aromatic acyl group, an aliphatic sulfonyl group or an aromatic sulfonyl group; R.sub.10 represents hydrogen or a substituent; Q represents a substituted or unsubstituted N-phenylcarbamoyl group; Za and Zb each represents unsubstituted methine, substituted methine or .dbd.N--; Y.sub.1, Y.sub.2 and Y.sub.4 each represents a halogen atom or a coupling releasable group; Y.sub.3 represents hydrogen or a coupling releasable group; and Y.sub.5 represents a coupling releasable group; and (b) bleach-fixing said developed silver halide color photographic material using a bleach-fixing solution prepared by diluting and combining the two-part bleach-fixing solution of the invention.

Bleach-fixing solution concentrate composition and method for processing

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a combination of a pyrazolo-azole magenta coupler and a specific dye image stabilizing agent is disclosed. The stabilizing agent is effective to improve fastness of a dye image formed by the coupler to light, heat and moisture.

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one magenta coupler represented by the formula ##STR1## where the groups in the formula are defined in the specification; is dispersed in the silver halide emulsion layer in the presence of at least one high-boiling organic solvent represented by one of the formulae (II), (III), (IV) and (V): ##STR2## where the groups in the formulae are described in the specification. The a high boiling point organic solvent has a dielectric constant of not less than 4.00 at 25.degree. C. and 10 KHz.

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having coated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, in which said silver halide emulsion layer or a layer adjacent thereto contains a pyrazoloazole magenta coupler having at least one substituted alkyl group represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein [A] represents a pyrazoloazole magenta coupler residual group; R.sup.1 is an alkyl group; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each is a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that both R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time; and n is 1, 2 or 3.

Silver halide color photographic material containing a pyrazoloazole

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Kiyoshi Nakazyo