Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Tadaaki Tani

Mikio Ihama

Tadashi Ikeda

Masaki Okazaki

Keiichi Adachi

Kiyoshi Nakazyo

Shigeharu Urabe

Naoyasu Deguchi

Tadao Sugimoto

Tsutomu Miyasaka

Sadanobu Shuto

Satoshi Aiba

Fumitaka Ueda

Hiroshi Ohnishi

Hiroyuki Asanuma

Toshio Tsukada

A high silver iodide photographic emulsion is provides, which has a high sensitivity and a narrow size distribution, and is a photosensitive silver halide photographic emulsion having a silver iodide content of 90 mol % or more, wherein the average grain size (R) and the average crystallite size (r) of silver halide emulsion grains in the emulsion satisfy the relationship of 1&#x2266;R/r&#x3c;2.

Silver halide photographic emulsion and photothermographic material using the same

A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, where at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion obtained by treating a silver halide emulsion containing a dye previously added thereto with a solid adsorbent which is a porous organic synthetic resin without any ion exchange group to thereby desorb the dye adsorbed.

Silver halide photographic material

A method for spectrally sensitizing silver halide emulsions is disclosed, comprising the step of adding a cyanine dye, which provides a J-band when added to silver halide emulsions, to a silver halide emulsion followed by ripening with such conditions that the relative quantum yield .phi..sub.r of spectral sensitization assumes a value of 1/2 or less of the .phi..sub.r of spectral sensitization obtained when the dye is added to the emulsion under ripening conditions of 40.degree. C. and 20 minutes from the time of addition of the dye to the emulsion until the time of coating the emulsion, and then ripening the silver halide emulsions. In one embodiment of the disclosed method, a heterocyclic compound which contains a mercapto group is added to the emulsion before the addition of the dye in an amount sufficient to increase the .phi..sub.r.

Method for spectrally sensitizing silver halide photographic emulsions

A silver halide photographic material is disclosed containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer, in which (1) the silver halide grains constituting the emulsion layer have been spectrally sensitized by at least one adsorbable spectral sensitizing dye added thereto before the completion of chemical ripening of the grains, and (2) at least one luminous dye which has a quantum efficiency of 0.1 or more when the concentration thereof in dry gelatin at room temperature is 10.sup.-4 mol/dm.sup.3 and which can be substantially completely removed by development is added to a hydrophilic dispersion medium for the emulsion layer exclusive of the silver halide grains in a concentration of 2.0 mmol/dm.sup.3 in the dispersion medium. The addition of the spectral sensitizing dye is not limitative and can be either before the completion of the formation of the silver halide grains or during a stage from the completion of the formation of the grains to the completion of the chemical ripening thereof. By the combination of the spectral sensitization by the adsorbable spectral sensitizing dye and light-collecting sensitization by the luminous dye, the spectral sensitivity of the silver halide in the material is unexpectedly improved.

Silver halide photographic materials spectrally sensitized with luminous

A silver halide color photographic material and a process for preparing the photographic material are disclosed, comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer on the support, wherein the emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion which has been spectrally sensitized by adding a spectrally sensitizing dye prior to the completion of formation of silver halide particles, and at least one cyan coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkyloxy group, an aryloxy group, a heterocyclic oxy group, an alkylamino group, an arylamino group, or a heterocyclic amino group, R.sub.13 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxyl group, an aryloxy group, an acyloxy group, or an acylamino group, X is a group capble of being released upon the oxidative coupling reaction with a developing agent, or R.sub.12 and R.sup.13 together form a 5- or 6-membered ring.

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 photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion which is spectrally sensitized by adding a spectral sensitizing dye prior to the completion of formation of silver halide particles and at least one kind of pyrazoloazole type magenta coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##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, and when the Zb--Zc bond is a carbon-carbon double bond, it may form a part of an 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 light-sensitive material has a good color forming property and excellent stability during production and preservation, and provides color images having improved color reproducibility and image preservability.

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

A method for manufacturing a chemically and spectrally sensitized silver halide emulsion is described, which comprises carrying out chemical ripening of the emulsion in the presence of an iridium salt and a photographic spectral sensitizing dye.

Method for manufacturing a silver halide emulsion

A process for producing a spectrally sensitized silver halide photographic emulsion is described, comprising adding a substantially water-insoluble spectral sensitizing dye in an aqueous carrier to an emulsion before completion of the formation of silver halide grains without using an organic solvent.

Process for producing silver halide photographic emulsion

A silver halide light-sensitive material is described, comprising

Silver halide light-sensitive materials having a layer of grains having

A method for spectrally sensitizing a silver halide photographic emulsion with a supersensitizing combination as hereinafter described, wherein the combination of a trimethinecyanine dye and a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound having a mercapto group, which is capable of producing a slightly soluble silver salt by reacting with a silver ion, is incorporated in the emulsion in a supersensitizing amount.

Method for supersensitizing silver halide photographic emulsions

A chemically sulfur-sensitized silver halide photographic emulsion which contains: (1) at least 80 mol% silver bromide or silver chloride; wherein substantially are of the silver halide particles present are of the cubic crystal form; and (2) a sensitizing amount of an organic compound having at least one mercapto group and capable of reacting with a silver ion to form a water-insoluble silver salt. A method of sensitizing such an emulsion and a process of forming such an emulsion are also disclosed.

Sulfur-sensitized AgX emulsion containing cubic AgX grains and a

A process for preparing a sulfur-sensitized silver halide photographic emulsion whose average grain size does not exceed 0.5 .mu.m, which comprises forming the silver halide grains in the presence of ammionia and incorporating therein at least one hydroxytetrazaindene compound represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aromatic group, and n represents 1 or 2; to thereby increase sensitivity.

Process for sensitizing a fine grain silver halide photographic emulsion

A silver halide photographic emulsion supersensitized by a combination of (1) at least one cyanine sensitizing dye containing therein two 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic nuclei which may be the same as or different from each other and which are attached, through a conjugated methine chain consisting of three, five or seven methine groups, to each other, and (2) a benzotriazole substituted with at least one halogen atom, both (1) and (2) being present in a supersensitizing amount. The emulsion shows reduced fog and intensified spectral sensitivity than an emulsion containing the cyanine dye alone.

Supersensitizing combinations of halogen substituted benzotriazoles and

A process for developing a light-sensitive material which comprises processing a direct reversal silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising 1. cubic silver halide grains having fogging nuclei therein provided by adding a strong reducing agent to the emulsion and ripening the emulsion, and 2.

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