Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

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Nobuo Furutachi

Takeshi Hirose

Kotaro Nakamura

Tadahisa Sato

Osamu Takahashi

Masakazu Morigaki

Toshio Kawagishi

Atsuaki Arai

Seiji Ichijima

Keisuke Shiba

Kozo Aoki

Nobuo Seto

Minoru Yamada

Kiyoshi Nakazyo

Keizo Kimura

Satoru Sawada

Yoshiharu Yabuki

Shigeki Yokoyama

Nobuo Sakai

Nobutaka Ohki

Harumi Katsuyama

Toshiyuki Watanabe

Genichi Furusawa

Takatoshi Ishikawa

Hidetoshi Kobayashi

Hideaki Naruse

Tadashi Ogawa

Takayoshi Kamio

Jun Hayashi

Yoshinobu Yoshida

Yoshiaki Suzuki

Toshiaki Aono

Tetsuro Kojima

Minoru Sakai

Tsumoru Hirano

Akio Mitsui

Shoji Ishiguro

Yoshimasa Aotani

Yukio Yokota

Makoto Umemoto

Minoru Sasaki

Seiki Sakanoue

Shigeru Oono

Hiroo Fukunaga

Yosio Kosuge

Satoshi Ota

Genichi Hurusawa

There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer comprises a magenta coupler and a compound that can break the aggregation of azomethine dye formed from said magenta coupler and the oxdized product of the color-developing agent. The silver halide color photographic material exhibits an excellent effect that the light-fastness of image dye and the color reproduction are good.

Silver halide photographic material containing a magenta coupler and a

A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler represented by the following formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.2 or R'.sub.2 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group; and X represents a coupling split-off group liked through a nitrogen or a sulfur atom.

Process for forming color image

A silver halide color photographic material, which comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer, contains a pyrazoloazole type coupler represented by the following general formula (II) in the emulsion layer, to ensure high sensitivity and high gamma without attended by increase in fog: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group releasable upon coupling with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; or --NH--; Zb and Zc also represent a methine group, a substituted methine group, .dbd.N-- or --NH--, wherein the substituent of at least either of Zb and Zc is a tertiary alkyl group represented by ##STR2## provided that when Zc is the above-described substituted methine group having the tertiary alkyl group as a substituent, R.sub.1 is not such a tertiary alkyl group, and when Zb represents the above-described substituted methine group, either Za or Zc is --NH-- and the remainder is a methine group, a substituted methine group or .dbd.NH--, while when Zc represents the above-described substituted methine group, Za is --NH-- and Zb is a methine group, a substituted methine group or .dbd.N--. R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group or a halogen atom; and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents substituents as defined in the specification.

Silver halide photographic material

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having, on a support, at least an emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler represented by the general formula (I) and a sparingly water soluble epoxy compound represented by the general formula (II): ##STR1## An excellent dye images with improved yellow image storability, particularly, heat and wet heat fastness can be obtained.

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing

A pyrazoloazoleazomethine dye represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein, R.sub.1 represents a substituent having a Hammett's substituent constant value of at least 0.6; Za, Zb, and Zc each represents ##STR2## (wherein R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent), or .dbd.N--; when Zc=Zb is a carbon-carbon double bond, it may form a part of an aromatic ring; R.sub.3, R.sub.4, and R.sub.5 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and n represents 1 or 2; said dye may form a dimer or higher polymer by combining with each other or to a polymer through a divalent or higher valent group at R.sub.1, Za, Zb, or Zc.

Pyrazoloazoleazomethine dyes

A pyrazoloazole series coupler having the following formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituent having a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma..sub.p of at least 0.6;

Pyrazoloazole series couplers

There is provided a color photograph improved in preservability that has been obtained by making chemically inactive the aromatic amine type color developing agents and their oxidized product that remains in the silver halide photographic materials after color development processing. The color photograph exhibits excellent performance in that its white background can be prevented from discoloring even during long-term storage or display, and deterioration of a dye image caused by the remaining color developing agent being taken into the photographic material after the color development, bleaching, and fixing processes, or due to its oxidized product, can be prevented.

Color photographs, a process for preparing them and color photographic

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide red-sensitive emulsion layer containing at least one cyan coupler represented by formula (I) or (II) ##STR1## wherein Za represents ##STR2## Zb represents ##STR3## Zc represents ##STR4## Y represents a hydrogen atom or a blocking group; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group which releases upon a reaction with an oxidation product or an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; R.sub.11 represents a group which is substantially not released upon reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; R.sub.12 represents a hydrogen atom or a substitutent; or R.sub.11, or R.sub.12 or X may form a dimer, oligomer or polymer. The silver halide color photographic material containing the novel cyan coupler is excellent in color reproducibility and image preservability.

Silver halide color photographic material

The present invention provides silver halide color photographic materials having a layer which contains at least one magenta color image-forming oleophilic coupler of the following formulae (I) and/or (II) and at least one of the following formula (III): ##STR1## in which Ar represents a phenyl group which is substituted by at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group and a cyano group; Y represents an acylamino group or an anilino group; and Z.sub.1 represents a group capable of being removed by coupling, ##STR2## in which X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being removed by coupling;

Silver halide color photographic materials

A pyrazoloazoleazomethine dye represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein, R.sub.1 represents a substituent having a Hammett's substituent constant value of at least 0.6; Za, Zb, and Zc each represents ##STR2## (wherein R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent), or .dbd.N--; when Zc.dbd.Zb is a carbon-carbon double bond, it may form a part of an aromatic ring; R.sub.3, R.sub.4, and R.sub.5 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and n represents 1 or 2; said dye may form a dimer or higher polymer by combining with each other or to a polymer through a divalent or higher valent group at R.sub.1, Za, Zb, or Zc.

A silver halide color photographic material composed of a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one layer thereof containing a yellow coupler represented by formula (I), a sparingly water-soluble epoxy compound represented by formula (II) and a water-insoluble but organic solvent-soluble homopolymer or copolymer: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 represents an N-arylcarbamoyl group; and Z.sub.11 represents a group capable of being released by a reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; and ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, each represents hydrogen, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, an aliphatic oxycarbonyl group, an aromatic oxycarbonyl group or a carbamoyl group; provided that at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represents a group other than hydrogen; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 contain a total of 8 to 60 carbon atoms; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 may be linked to form a 5-membered to 7-membered ring. Because of the combination of the particular yellow coupler, epoxy resin and polymer, the storage stability of the yellow image formed in the material is excellent.

Silver halide color photographic material containing sparingly water

A process for processing a silver halide color photographic material is described comprising subjecting a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one photographic emulsion layer containing at least one kind of pyrazoloazole series magenta coupler represented by general formula (I) to photographic processing using a bath containing at least 1.times.10.sup.-4 mol/liter of a soluble iron salt as the final bath: ##STR1## wherein Za and Zb each represents .dbd.CH--, (wherein R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent) or =N-; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group releasably upon coupling with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; when Za=Zb is a carbon-carbon double bond, the double bond may be a part of an aromatic ring; the magenta coupler may form a dimer or polymer at R.sub.1, R.sub.2 or X; when at least one of said Za and Zb is ##STR2## at least one of the R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represents a methylene group directly bonded to the skeleton of general formula (I), at least one of the hydrogen atoms of which is substituted; when both Za and Zb are .dbd.N--, R.sub.1 is a methylene group directly bonded to the skeleton, at least one of the hydrogen atoms of which is substituted; and the R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 has at least one --NHSO.sub.2 -- as a substituent.

Processing for silver halide color photographic materials

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer on the support, said emulsion layer containing a 5-pyrazolone coupler having a coupling eliminable group of the following general formula (I) at the coupling site thereof: ##STR1## wherein L.sub.1 represents a substituted or an unsubstituted methylene or ethylene group; l represents 0 or 1; m represents 0 or an integer from 1 to 3; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or an unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group; Y represents ##STR2## Q represents a single bond or nonmetal atoms necessary to complete a 5- to 8-membered ring together with ##STR3## said 5- to 8-membered ring may further have a saturated or an unsaturated ring condensed thereto; R.sub.2 represents a halogen atom, an alkyl group; an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an acylamino group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, a sulfonamide group, a sulfamoyl group, an ureido group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an acyl group, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group, an amino group, an N-alkylamino group, an N-arylamino group, an N,N-dialkylamino group, a diacylamino group, an imido group or a carbamoyl group, and when m represents 2 or 3, R.sub.2 groups may be the same or different; R.sub.2 ' represents a hydrogen atom, or has the same meaning as R.sub.2 and two R.sub.2 ' groups may be linked to form a 5- to 7-membered saturated or unsaturated ring; and --Y Q may be a substituted or an unsubstituted carbon-carbon or carbon-nitrogen double bond. The silver halide photographic material provides a magenta image having a high maximum density and light fastness.

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material contains at least one kind of pyrazoloazole type magenta coupler represented by the general formula (I) described below and the total coating amount of silver in the photographic material is 0.75 g/m.sup.2 or less. ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; Za, Zb and Zc each represents a methine group, a substituted methine group, .dbd.N-- or --NH--, one of the Za-Zb bond and the Zb-Zc bond being a double bond and the other being a single bond; when the Zb-Zc bond is a carbon-carbon double bond, the Zb-Zc bond may be a part of a condensed aromatic ring; R.sup.1 or X may also form a polymer including a dimer or more; and when Za, Zb or Zc is a substituted methine group, the substituted methine group may form a polymer including a dimer or more. The silver halide color photographic material provides color images having improved color reproducibility and preservability and is excellent in processing stability.

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Nobuo Furutachi