Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Naoyasu Deguchi

Shigeru Ohno

Koki Nakamura

Sadanobu Shuto

Shigeo Hirano

Tetsuro Kojima

Yasuhiro Hayashi

Hideo Miyazaki

Noriyuki Inoue

Hiroyuki Yamagami

Kazunori Hasebe

Kensuke Goda

Hatsumi Tanemura

Masaki Okazaki

Hiroyuki Mifune

Seiji Ichijima

Hidetoshi Kobayashi

Taku Nakamura

Nobutaka Ohki

Mikio Ihama

Toshiyuki Watanabe

Toshinao Ukai

Tatsuo Heki

Satoshi Nagaoka

Munehisa Fujita

Hideo Usui

Tadaaki Tani

Kiyohiko Yamamuro

Nobuaki Miyasaka

Masayuki Kuroishi

Kiyoshi Imai

Sadao Kamei

Kazutoshi Inada

Hiroshi Onishi

Junichi Tamano

Koji Kameyama

A silver halide color reversal photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one cyan coupler-containing red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta coupler-containing green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one yellow coupler-containing blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the total light-sensitive silver halide grains in the photographic material have an average silver iodide content of 5.5 mol % or less, and said at least one of light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and a substantially light-insensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer adjacent thereto comprises means for producing an interimage effect, said interimage effect satisfying at least one of relationships (a) and (b):

Silver halide color reversal photographic material capable of providing

The present invention relates to a silver halide color reversal photographic material comprising photosensitive silver halide photographic layers in which the average silver chloride content of the photosensitive silver halide emulsions is less than 7.0 mol %, at least one emulsion layer of the photographic layers consists of two or more emulsions having different average grain diameters, and the emulsion layer and/or the adjacent intermediate layer contains at least one compound that can release a photographically useful agent by redox reaction with the oxidation product of a developing agent. The silver halide color reversal photographic material of the present invention has a color-reversed image improved in graininess and sensitivity.

Silver halide color reversal photographic maerial having silver halide

A direct positive color photographic material having comprising a support at least one previously non-fogged internal latent image-type silver halide emulsion, in which at least one green-sensitive internal latent image-type silver halide emulsion layer contains a 2-equivalent yellow-coloring coupler and a magenta-coloring coupler of the following general formula (M-II) ##STR1## where R.sub.10 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent;

Direct positive color photographic material

A novel direct positive photosensitive material is provided comprising a support having therein at least one photographic emulsion layer containing internal latent image type silver halide grains not having been previously fogged, wherein the photographic emulsion layer comprises:

Direct positive photosensitive material

A direct positive photosensitive material composed of a support having thereon at least one photosensitive emulsion layer comprising non-prefogged internal latent image silver halide grains and at least one compound represented by formulae (I), (II), (III) or (IV): ##STR1## wherein M.sub.1 represents hydrogen, a cation or a protective group capable of being cleaved by an alkali; and Z represents an atomic group necessary for forming a 5-membered or 6-membered substituted or unsubstituted ring selected from a heterocyclic ring and a condensed heterocyclic ring; ##STR2## wherein Z.sub.1 represents an alkyl group containing from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, an aryl group containing from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a heterocyclic group; Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents an atomic group necessary for forming an aromatic ring containing from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a heterocyclic ring; M represents a metal atom or an organic cation; and n is an integer of 2 to 10.

Process for preparing an internal latent image silver halide emulsion

In a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which includes at least one layer of each of red-, green-, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and a yellow filter layer containing yellow colloidal silver on a support, an average grain size of at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsions is 0.4 .mu.m or less, a maximum absorption peak of yellow colloidal silver in the yellow filter layer appears at 430 to 450 nm, and 1/4 absorption of the maximum absorption at the longer wavelength side occurs within the range of 500 to 560 nm. This photographic light-sensitive material can reduce a fog by the yellow filter layer without degrading other photographic properties.

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a

A method of forming a color image which comprises subjecting a silver halide color reversal photographic material to imagewise exposure and then to color reversal processing, said color reversal photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer wherein the emulsion layers have an average silver iodide content of up to 5 mol %, and wherein the peak sensitivity of the red layer is in a range between 615 and 640 nm, wherein on the shorter wavelength side, 80% of the peak is in a range between 600 and 633 nm, 50% of the peak is in a range between 585 and 625 nm and 25% of the peak is in a range between 570 and 615 nm, and wherein on the longer wavelength side, 80% of the peak is in a range between 620 and 648 nm, 50% of the peak is in a range between 625 and 655 nm and 25% of the peak is in a range between 630 and 665 nm, wherein the wavelength difference between the longer and shorter side at which the sensitivity is 25% of the peak is in a range of 30 to 90 nm, and at least one layer has a means for providing an interimage effect.

Method of forming color image from a color reversal photographic

A direct positive color light-sensitive material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one internal latent image-forming silver halide emulsion layer containing non-prefogged silver halide grains and which contains at least one color image-forming coupler capable of producing or releasing a non-diffusible or diffusible dye upon oxidative coupling with a color developing agent, with at least one layer different from the internal latent image-forming silver halide emulsion layer containing a surface latent image-forming, negative-working silver halide emulsion and with at least one of the negative-working silver halide emulsion layer and an interlayer adjacent thereto containing at least one compound capable of releasing a fogging agent, a fogging agent precursor, a development promoter or a development promoter precursor in proportion to the amount of developed silver of the negative-working silver halide emulsion upon development processing using an aromatic primary amine developing agent.

Direct positive color light-sensitive material

A direct positive image forming method comprising development processing an imagewise exposed photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least on photographic emulsion layer containing internal latent image type silver halide grains not having been previously fogged in the presence of a nucleating agent, wherein the nucleating agent comprises at least two kinds of nucleating agents and a ratio of nucleating rates thereof is at least 2.0. In accordance with the method of the present invention, images having both a low minimum density and an extremely high maximum density can be rapidly and stably obtained using a small amount of nucleating agents.

Direct positive image forming method comprising developing with a

Direct positive photographic materials and a method of forming direct

A direct positive photographic material which has at least one previously-not-fogged internal latent image-type silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein the photographic material contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cyano group, --COOR.sub.5, --CONR.sub.5 R.sub.6, --OR.sub.5, --NR.sub.5 R.sub.6, --NR.sub.6 COR.sub.7, --NR.sub.5 CONR.sub.5 R.sub.6, --NR.sub.6 SO.sub.2 R.sub.7 (each of R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.7 represents an alkyl or aryl group; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6, or R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 may link together to form a 5- or 6-membered ring); each of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; each of Q.sub.1 and Q.sub.2 represents an aryl group; each of X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 represents a bond or a divalent linking group; each of Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 represents a sulfo group or a carboxyl group; each of L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.sub.3 represents a methine group; n represents 0, 1, or 2; each of m.sub.1 and m.sub.2 represents 1 or 2; each of p.sub.1 and p.sub.2 represents 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; and each of q.sub.1 and q.sub.2 represents 1 or 2. The photographic materials show no change in photographic performance after preservation under high temperature and high humidity and give images of high sharpness.

Direct positive photographic materials

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer and at least one layer containing colloidal silver, wherein said colloidal silver-containing layer comprises at least one compound selected from compounds of general formula (I) and (II) below, and at least one photosensitive or non-photosensitive layer selected from a silver halide photosensitive layer positioned farthest from said support and any layers positioned between said farthest photosensitive layer and said support comprises a silver halide emulsion containing internally-fogged or surface-fogged silver halide grains: ##STR1## wherein the substituent groups on general formula (I) and (II) are as defined in the specification.

Silver halide color photographic material

A method for manufacturing a silver halide emulsion comprising the steps of forming silver halide grains in the presence of a hydrophilic colloid, physical ripening, desalting, and chemical ripening, wherein a photographic spectral sensitizing dye is added to the emulsion after adding at least 85% by weight of a soluble silver salt solution but before the desalting step is described.

Method for manufacturing silver halide emulsion

A silver halide color reversal photographic material is disclosed which comprises a support and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on the support, which material is characterized in that at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or at least one layer adjacent thereto contains at least one of the compounds represented by the following general formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV): ##STR1## All the symbols used are as defined in the Specification.

Silver halide color reversal photographic material

A silver halide photographic material is described, having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing an iodine-containing silver halide on a support and having one or more auxiliary layers on the outermost surface of a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer positioned farthest from the support, wherein at least one of the auxiliary layers contains a substantially non-light-sensitive silver halide emulsion or a silver halide emulsion containing grains whose inner part or surface part is fogged, and the material contains at least one compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R, X, Y, Z, and n are described in the specification.

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Naoyasu Deguchi