Konica Corporation

Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Satoru Shimba

Hiroshi Shimazaki

Kenji Ito

Hiroshi Sugita

Yasuo Tsuda

Yoshitaka Yamada

Kazuo Kato

Fumie Fukazawa

Yasushi Irie

Yoshikazu Watanabe

Kenji Michiue

Katuya Yabuuchi

Keisuke Tobita

Masayuki Kurematsu

Syoji Matsuzaka

Toshihiko Yagi

Kenji Kumashiro

Hideaki Haraga

Atsuo Ezaki

Fumio Hamada

Kuniaki Uezawa

Kiyotoshi Yamashita

Masao Iwamuro

Koji Tashiro

Miki Kon

Katutoyo Suzuki

Katsutoyo Suzuki

Hiroshi Ideda

Kenjiro Ushiyama

Disclosed is a method for forming color photographic images which comprises printing of color images obtained by use of a color photographic light-sensitive material, having on a support, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer onto a printing color photographic light-sensitive material having on a support, a yellow color forming layer, a magenta color forming layer and a cyan color forming layer, wherein the following requirements (A) and (B) are fulfilled,

Method for forming color photographic images improved in color

Disclosed is a method for forming a silver halide color photographic image comprising: exposing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for photographing which comprises a support and provided thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (B layer), at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (G layer) and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (R layer) to light to obtain a latent image; processing said latent image to obtain a color negative image; printing said color negative image on a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for printing which comprises a support and provided thereon a yellow color-forming layer (Y layer), a magenta color-forming layer (M layer) and a cyan color-forming layer (C layer) to obtain a color photographic image; wherein: (A) the spectral sensitivity distribution of the G layer S.sub.G (.lambda.) has a maximum value at a certain point .lambda..sub.Gmax within the wavelength region 525-560 nm, and the spectral sensitivity of the G layer at 570 nm S.sub.G570 accounts for 40% or less of said maximum value; and (B) the spectral density distribution of a dye formed in the Y layer by processing said color photographic light-sensitive material for printing S.sub.Y (1) has a maximum value at a certain point 1.sub.U.sup.50 within the wavelength region 430-460 nm, and said maximum value is reduced to half at a certain point l.sub.Y.sup.50 within the longer wavelength region 480-500 nm. By the method of the invention, it is possible to obtain a color photographic image in which colors, in particular, yellow and skin color, is reproduced with an extremely high degree of accuracy.

Method for forming a silver halide color photographic image

Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having 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, wherein the maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.B of the spectral sensitivity distribution in said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer at 400 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.B .ltoreq.470 nm, the sensitivity of said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer at 480 nm does not exceed 40% of the sensitivity at the maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.B and the gradient of said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer after blue light separation exposure .gamma..sub.SB and the gradient of said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer after white light exposure .gamma..sub.WB bears the relationship of .gamma..sub.SB /.gamma..sub.WB .ltoreq.1.25. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to this invention is capable of exactly reproducing the hues that have been difficult to reproduce, particularly the hues of red to magenta colors and the hues of green colors such as blue-green and green without being accomplished by degradation of the reproducibility for the primary colors.

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material offering

A silver halide color photoqraphic light-sensitive material having an excellent graininess, sharpness and color reproducibility, particularly of green colors including yellowish qreen and bluish qreen is disclosed. Among silver halide emulsion layers, the blue-sensitive layer is located furthest from a support and the outside thereof, has a non-light-sensitive layer. And the optical specifications of these two layers are as specified in the claims.

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of which the color reproducibility and printing suitability are kept improved against the variation of photographing conditions, such as a change in light source, is disclosed. The photographic material comprises a support and provided thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers is of three-layer structure comprising a low-speed elemental emulsion layer, a medium-speed elemental emulsion layer and a high speed emulsion layer arranged in this sequence from the side facing the support, and a maximum color density of said medium-speed emulsion layer is not more than 0.35.

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which offers high chroma and excellent hue reproduction comprises 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 maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.B of a spectral sensitivity distribution of said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is in the range of 410 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.B .ltoreq.470 nm; and the sensitivity of said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer at 480 nm is not more than half of the sensitivity at said wavelength .lambda..sub.B. Preferably, the maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.G of said green-sensitive layer is in the range of 530 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.G .ltoreq.560 nm and the sensitivity of said green-sensitive layer at the wavelength of 500 nm is not less than one-fourth of the sensitivity at SG.sub.max ; the maximum sensitivity wavelength .lambda..sub.R of said red-sensitive layer is in the range of 595 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.R .ltoreq.625 nm and the maximum sensitivity of red-sensitive layer in the range of 400 nm to 480 nm is not less than 1.5% of the sensitivity of blue-sensitive layer at .lambda..sub.B.

Color photographic light-sensitive material offering excellent hue

A silver halide photographic material that contains a polymer including a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (I) and having a weight average molecular weight of no more than 30,000: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; Z represents the atomic group necessary to form a lactam ring, an oxazolidone ring or a pyrrolidone ring; A is a simple linkage, --CO--, --COO(CH.sub.2).sub.n or --CONR.sup.2 (CH.sub.2).sub.n where R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and n is an integer of 1-6. This photographic material experiences a minimum level of increase in fogging during rapid processing and produces image having improved sharpness and granularity.

Silver halide photographic material

A method for processing silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which comprises color developing an imagewise-exposed silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and then bleach-fixing said color developed light-sensitive material, said light-sensitive material comprising support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing monodispersed silver halide particles and a photographic cyan coupler having the Formula [I]: ##STR1## wherein X is a hydrogen atom or a radical that can be split off by the reaction of said coupler with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; R.sub.1 is an aryl or a heterocyclic radical; and R.sub.2 is a ballasting radical which provides non-diffusibility to said cyan coupler and a cyan dye formed therefrom.

Method for the processing of silver halide photographic light-sensitive

Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, characterized in that said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a cyan coupler represented by the formula [I] shown below, and said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and/or a layer contiguous to said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of a timing DIR compound represented by the formula [II] shown below and a non-timing type DIR compound: ##STR1## wherein X, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined in the specification; ##STR2## wherein Cp, TIME and Z are as defined in the specification.

Light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material

A silver halide color photographic material in which the photographic characteristics do not deteriorate when contacted with formaldehyde.

Silver halide color photographic materials

Silver halide photographic material having at least one light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one non-light sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer, and optionally a third type of layer, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers, colloid layers, or third type of layers has, in a single layer, both a magenta coupler of Formula I and a development inhibitor releasing compound having a development inhibitor radical of Formula II or III, said Formula is wherein R.sub.1 is selected from benzamido, anilino, and phenylureido, each having a sulfonamido group and R.sub.2 is selected from aryl and heterocyclic groups; said Formula II is ##STR1## wherein R.sub.3 is selected from hydrogen, halogen, acylamino, alkyl, benzothiazolinylidenamino and phenyl substituted alkoxy; said Formula III is ##STR2## wherein X is a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to complete, together with the C.dbd.N group, a five or six membered heterocyclic ring.

Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, characterized in that said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a cyan coupler represented by formula [I] shown below, and said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and/or a layer contiguous to said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a colored cyan coupler represented by the formula [II]: ##STR1## wherein X, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined in the specification; ##STR2## wherein (Coup--).sub.c, L, Q.sub.1, Q.sub.2, M, j, and G are as defined in the specification.

Disclosed is a light-silver silver halide color photographic material, having a blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green sensitive silver halide emulsion and a red sensitive silver halide emulsion on a support; which comprises said red sensitive silver halide emulsion containing at least one kind of the compounds represented by the formula [I] shown below, and further the content of the silver halide contained in all of the aforesaid light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers being 7.5 g/m.sup.2 or more as calculated on silver, and the content of the silver halide contained in said red sensitive silver halide emulsion being 3.5 g/m.sup.2 or more as calculated on silver: ##STR1## wherein, X, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 as defined in the specification.

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Hino, Japan

Satoru Shimba