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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2001
Tommie L. Royster, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
John E. Keevert, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
Sharon G. Johnston, Pittsford, NY (US);
Donald L. Black, Webster, NY (US);
David W. Sandford, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A photographic element which comprises a support bearing: (i) a first radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion image-forming layer comprising a high bromide tabular grain emulsion including tabular grains having {111} major faces, exhibiting an average thickness of at least 0.07 &mgr;m and an average aspect ratio of at least 2; and (ii) a second radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion image-forming layer comprising an ultrathin tabular grain emulsion including tabular grains having {111} major faces, containing greater than 70 mole percent bromide and at least 0.25 mole percent iodide, exhibiting an average thickness of less than 0.07 &mgr;m and an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.7 &mgr;m, and having latent image forming chemical sensitization sites on the surfaces of the tabular grains; wherein the surface chemical sensitization sites include epitaxially deposited silver halide protrusions containing an actual chloride concentration of from 20-50 mole %, based on epitaxially deposited silver, the chloride concentration being at least 10 mole percent higher than that of the tabular grains, and containing an actual iodide concentration of from 1 to 7 mole %, based on epitaxially deposited silver.