Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material comprising, on a reflective support, at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a dye-forming coupler and a non-light-sensitive layer provided on the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, located furthest from the reflective support, the non-light-sensitive layer containing:(a) a benzotriazole derivative represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently represent an alkyl, an alkoxy, an alkenyl, each alkyl, alkoxy, or alkenyl having not less than 4 carbon atoms, an aryl, or an aryloxy, said aryl and aryloxy each being substituted or unsubstituted and wherein R.sub.3 represents hydrogen, a halogen, an alkyl, an alkoxy, an alkenyl, each alkyl, alkoxy, or alkenyl having not less than 4 carbon atoms, an aryl, or an aryloxy; and(b) at least one compound having selected from the formulae (II) or (III): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.4 and R.sub.

Abstract: Photographic coupler solvents having at least one terminal epoxy group and at least one ester or amide group are described for incorporation in photographic emulsions and elements. The solvents are preferably employed in the magenta layer to reduce background stain produced by exposure to light, heat and humidity.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic product with dye images having improved fastness to light is disclosed. The product has at least one dye image forming layer on a support and further includes at least one of the compounds of formula (I) or (II) in said dye image forming layer and/or an adjoining or an adjacent layer: ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; X is an alkylene group; and Y is an alkylene or arylene group; and ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each an alkyl group; Y.sub.1 is an alkylene or arylene group; Z is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a sulfonyl group, a carbonyl group or an alkylene group; and n is an integer of 1 to 20.

Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive material having a support and at least one silver halide emulsion is provided. The silver halide emulsion layer contains in combination at least one cyan coupler of Formula (I) and at least one cyan coupler of Formula (II).

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer which comprises silver halide grains containing at least silver chloride and spectrally sensitized to infrared rays with at least one dye selected from a tricarbocyanine dye and a dicarbocyanine dye having a 4-quinoline nucleus, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains from 0.0003 mol to 0.01 mol per mol of silver of a water-soluble bromide.The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has high sensitivity in an infrared spectral region which does not substantially change during the preservation of the photographic light-sensitive material.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive 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, at least one of these silver halide emulsion layers containing a non-diffusible coupler which forms a properly smearing diffusible dye upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent together with a monodispersed silver halide emulsion. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material provides color images having not only an improved RMS granularity but also an improved visual sensation of graininess.

Abstract: There is disclosed a coupler for photography represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a branched alkyl group having 3 to 5 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 represents an aryl group; X represents a divalent linking group; Ar represents an aryl group; and Z is a hydrogen atom or a group eliminable through the coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine type color developing agent,and a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising the same.The coupler mentioned above is not only excellent in solubility in organic solvents, but also can be easily purified, thus being capable of exhibiting excellent characteristics with respect to spectral absorption characteristics, sensitivity, color density, color staining as well as with respect to image storability such as light resistance, heat resistance and humidity resistance.

Abstract: Yellow couplers corresponding to the formula ##STR1## wherein Y represents an aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic group,X represents hydrogen or a releasable group,R.sup.1 represents halogen, andR.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each represent an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms,are readily soluble in oil formers and undergo coupling with a high color yield. They are resistant to heat and moisture and undergo color development to yield stable yellow dyes with an absorption maximum below 450 nm. They have a high absorption capacity in the near UV region and are virtually unaffected by fluctuations in the pH during processing.

Abstract: A composition obtained by incorporating a benzenedithiol nickel complex in a liquid formulation containing a solvent and, as a binder, an organic polymer or containing a solvent, organic color-producing substance, acidic substance and binder suitable for producing a laser beam recording/reading means having an absorption band in the region of 800-950 nm.

Abstract: An image forming method to get high density image without any fog is disclosed.The method is suitable for a low silver containing photographic material. The method include the color developing step with a small amount of monobath developing intensifying solution, wherein the color developing is carried out under the existence of an anion exchanger and/or cationic polymer. The monobath developing intensifying solution may be in contact with the anion exchanger. On the other hand, the cationic polymer may be contained in the photographic material.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material. A support contains at least one silver halide emulsion layer that has in combination at least one cyan coupler of Formula I with at least one dye image stabilizer of Formula II or III.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having improved whiteness and a method of processing said material are disclosed. The material is formed on a hydrophobic support at least one silver halide emulsion layer, a layer containing a brightening agent and a layer containing a compound that is capable of trapping the brightening agent, said layer containing a compound capable of trapping the brightening agent being separate from the layer containing the brightening agent and positioned more remote from the support than the latter layer, and also, the method for providing enhanced brightening effect comprises subjecting said material to imagewise exposure and color development so that said brightening agent is diffused into and trapped by the layer containing capable of trapping the brightening agent.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers positioned thereon. The material includes at least one silver halide emulsion layer having a particular sensitivity and color sensitivity, and a second silver halide emulsion layer having the same color sensitivity but having a greater sensitivity with respect to light, the second layer including a silver halide having a silver iodide content in the range of 9% by mol to 15% by mol. The material includes a DIR compound in a layer other than the second silver halide emulsion layer. The DIR compound releases a diffusible development inhibitor or precursor thereof by a coupling reaction. The resulting material has greatly improved granularity and sharpness.

Abstract: A method for processing a color photographic light-sensitive material by subjecting an exposed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to color development processing then to bleaching processing and fixing processing or to bleach-fixing processing, which process comprises using a ferric ion complex salt or a persulfate as a bleaching agent in the bleaching processing or bleach-fixing processing and incorporating a compound represented by the general formula (I) described below or a salt thereof in a bath of the bleaching processing or bleach-fixing processing or in a pre-bath thereof. ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; X represents a --NH.sup.3 R.sup.4 group, a --COOM group, a --SO.sub.3 M group or a hydroxy group; R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: A color photographic silver halide light-sensitive material is described, comprising a support base having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer wherein said material contains at least one coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A represents a yellow coupler residue, a magenta coupler residue, or a cyan coupler residue; R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted acyclic or cyclic alkylene group; R.sub.2 represents a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted acylamino group, a substituted or unsubstituted sulfonamido group or a substituted or unsubstituted acyl group; and n represents an integer of 0 to 3.

Abstract: A color photographic silver halide light-sensitive material is described. The material contains a 5-pyrazolone magenta coupler represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## (all the symbols are as defined in the appended claims). The compounds of the general formula (I) are novel couplers, and are chemically very stable and are particularly superior in two equivalency, sensitivity, and color density.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex which is capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is a polymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein [Q] represents a magenta color image forming coupler residue; Za, Zb, Zc and Zd each represents a substituted or unsubstituted methine group, or --N.dbd.; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, or a chlorine atom; A represents --NHCO--, --OCO--, or a phenylene group; Y represents --O--, --NH--, --S--, --SO--, --SO.sub.

Abstract: A photosensitive composition, a photosensitive element employing said composition, and an improved photoimaging method that utilizes the disclosed composition. The improved method concerns a photosensitive element, formed from a photosensitive composition having a substrate layered with silver halide particles in operative association with a polymeric coupler, latently imaged, developed to render the imaged area insoluble, and washed to remove the undeveloped portion of the layer, wherein the improvement comprises addition of selected dispersed pigments to the polymeric coupler so that the optical density of the final image is neutral black.

Abstract: A color photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a DIR compound having an amino group and a DIR compound having no amino group.