Abstract: A method of improving conductivity of a metal pattern (18) includes providing a developed silver pattern (14) formed from a photographic silver salt provided in a binder coated on a substrate (12); and selectively heating the silver pattern with electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: A color diffusion-transfer photographic light-sensitive material provided with at least two light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, each of which is combined with a non-diffusive dye image forming compound forming or releasing a diffusive dye or its precursor in relation to silver development, or with a dye image forming compound whose diffusibility changes in relation to silver development, on a support, the light-sensitive material comprises a specific hydrazine compound and a specific compound improved in storability.

Abstract: A heat-developable color light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a hydrophilic binder and a dye-donating compound capable of releasing a diffusible dye in correspondence or counter-correspondence to the silver development, wherein at least two light-insensitive layers are provided between the support and a light-sensitive layer closest to the support and the light-insensitive layer not adjacent to the light-sensitive layer contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I) or (II): wherein R1 to R6 are defined herein wherein R7, R8 and R9 are defined herein and Y represents —CO— or —SO2—.

Abstract: There are described novel photographic processing compositions, film units and processes for use in diffusion transfer photographic systems. More particularly, there is described a method for forming a diffusion transfer image photographic processing of diffusion transfer photographic film units in the presence of hypoxanthine and inosine. Diffusion transfer photographic systems utilizing the novel photographic element or method of the present invention exhibit substantially fewer, if any, crystals on the final image of the finished photograph post-processing.

Abstract: A series of novel pyrrolo?2,1-a!isoquinoline dyes has been prepared using readily available starting materials via a simple synthetic pathway. These dyes have narrow absorption bands in the range of 500-900 nm. Those that absorb in the near-infrared region (700-1400 nm) lack significant absorption in the 300-400 nm ultraviolet region of the spectrum; this is an advantage for use in an applications such as imaging setting film. In addition, the greater thermal and chemical stability of these dyes in comparison to their indolizine analogues should be valuable in many applications.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I are suitable as release compounds for photographically useful groups (photographic units). On reacting with nucleophilic reagents, preferably with dinucleophiles, the photographically useful group is released. ##STR1## In formula I: PUG means a photographically useful group;A means a strong electron acceptor;V means a vinylene group or two or more successive vinylene groups, wherein the vinylene group or two successive vinylene groups may form part of an aromatic ring system;L means one or more timing groups;m means 0 (zero) 1 or 2;n means 0 (zero), 1 or 2;R.sup.1 means H or methyl;R.sup.2 means H, alkyl with 1-18 C atoms or aryl;R.sup.3, R.sup.4 mean H or an organic group,wherein R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may also together mean the residue necessary to complete a ring.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having on one side thereof hydrophilic colloid layers including a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the hydrophilic colloid layers contains a redox compound having at least one carbonyl group, wherein said redox compound is capable of being oxidized with an oxidized product of a developing agent in a photographic processing so as to release a development inhibitor, and wherein said redox compound satisfies the following Formulae 1 through 3:Formula 1development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under a condition (A).gtoreq.4.5,Formula 2development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under a condition (B)<15.0,Formula 3development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under a condition (A)>development inhibitor releasing rate (%) under condition (B).

Abstract: A method for forming a dye image with high contrast is provided, wherein a heat-processable light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a non-light-sensitive layer and a light-sensitive layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide and a dye-providing material capable of releasing or forming a diffusible dye upon heat development is subjected to heat development to release or form the diffusible dye, which is transferred to a dye-receiving material having a dye-receiving layer to form a dye image on the dye-receiving layer, wherein the heat development or the transfer of the dye is carried out in the presence of a compounds represented by formula 1 or 2 and a compound represented by formula 3 or 4,(X.sub.1).sub.t --Q formula 1 ##STR1##R.sub.31 --X.sub.2 formula 3R.sub.41 --CO--Y.sub.1 --W.

Abstract: A method for forming an image comprising the steps of: (a) imagewise exposing silver halide photographic materials; where said photographic material contains (1) a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic group or an aromatic group; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an amino group, a carbamoyl group, or an oxycarbonyl group; G.sub.1 represents a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfoxy group, ##STR2## or an iminomethylene group; and A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 both represent a hydrogen atom, or one of A.sub.1 or A.sub.

Abstract: A compound (I) having a carrier moiety (CAR) and a releasable development inhibitor moiety (INH) capable of being released during photographic processing by means of at least one timing group (T) bonded to and releasable from the carrier moiety provides improved images in a photographic silver halide element and process when the inhibitor moiety (INH) comprises (R.sup.1) a non-aromatic, sterically hindered substituent group having (a) a tertiary carbon atom bonded directly to the releasable development inhibitor moiety or (b) a secondary carbon atom bonded directly to the releasable development inhibitor moiety and wherein the secondary carbon atom is not part of an unsubstituted carbocyclic ring containing at least 6 carbon atoms. Such compounds, particularly as couplers, are useful in photographic silver halide materials and processes to provide improved acutance and interimage effects.

Abstract: A novel blocked photographically useful compound element and process are based on a new blocking group that comprises a beta-ketocarbonyl group that is part of a 5- to 7-member heterocyclic ring containing a hetero-atom not adjacent to the beta-ketocarbonyl group. Such a blocked photographically useful compound provides a photographic material and process enabling more rapid release of the photographically useful group upon processing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat developable light-sensitive material that comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive layer containing a silver halide emulsion, a dye-donating substance and a reducing agent, wherein at least one subbing layer comprised of a hydrophobic polymer is provided between the light-sensitive layer nearlest to the support and the support, and at least one said subbing layer contains a photographic useful reagent.A heat developable light-sensitive material according to this invention, can provide control fogging and raise the maximum density, or can improve the maximum density difference without exerting adverse effects on sensitivity and preservability.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is provided comprising on a support at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one of the compounds represented by formulae (I) to (III): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 represents ##STR2## in which R.sub.13 represents an alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group, and R.sub.14 and R.sub.15 each represents hydrogen, alkyl group or aryl group; R.sub.12 represents a substituent having a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma.p of 0.3 or less; n represents an integer 0 to 2, and when n is 2, the two R.sub.12 's may be the same or different; B represents a group which releases PUG after being separated from a hydroquinone nucleus; PUG represents a development inhibitor; l represents an integer; and A and A' each represents hydrogen or a group capable of being removed by an alkali; R.sub.11 and R.sub.12, R.sub.11 and A or A', R.sub.12 and A or A', and two R.sub.12 's may together form a ring; ##STR3## wherein Q.sup.

Abstract: A diffusion transfer-type silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising a support, having thereon at least a photosensitive thermally developable silver halide, a binder, a dye donating compound which is fast to diffusion and which forms or releases a diffusible dye, a development inhibitor releasing compound which releases a development inhibitor and a compound represented by formula (I)R.sup.1 --Y--O--H [I]wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylamino group, an arylamino group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a heterocyclic residual group or a polymer residual group of said groups, Y represents ##STR1## or --SO.sub.2 --NR.sup.2 -- and R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or an acyl group, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be joined together to form a five or eight membered ring is disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one layer containing a compound represented by general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein EAG represents an electron-accepting group; A represents a group which undergoes a reaction triggered by the cleavage of the oxygen-nitrogen single bond in the general formula to release PUG; B represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocylic group, an acyl group, a sulfonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkoxysulfonyl group or an aryloxysulfonyl group which may contain substituents; the solid lines indicate a single bond; the broken lines indicate that either of these line is a bond, with the proviso that when the broken line between N and A represents a bond, B is not present; EAG and B, and A and B may be connected to each other to form a ring; EAG may be connected to a polymer residue to fix the compound of general f

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material composed of a support having thereon at least one silver halide photosensitive emulsion layer, at least one layer of the material containing a blocked photographic reagent precursor represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 represents a divalent linking group containing a hetero atom bonded to the carbon atom, provided that X.sub.1 is linked to the carbon atom by a group other than ##STR2## PUG represents a photographically useful group containing a hetero atom bonded to X.sub.1 ; W represents .dbd.N-- or ##STR3## Y.sub.1 represents hydrogen or a group capable of being substituted; Z represents an atomic group necessary for forming a heterocyclic ring, provided that when W represents a ##STR4## the group adjacent to W in the heterocyclic ring is a group other than ##STR5## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-developable color photographic material containing a compound represented by Formula (1) shown below: ##STR1## wherein X represents a halogen atom, and Y represents a group of nonmetallic atoms necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring bearing on the ring at least one substituent having 4 or more carbon atoms.Disclosed is also a process for forming an image on a heat-developable color photographic material, which comprises carrying out heat-development processing in the presence of the compound represented by Formula (1) mentioned above.

Abstract: A heat-developable color photographic light-sensitive material capable of giving positive color images having high maximum density, low minimum density, and less strain, comprising at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a dye-providing non-diffusible compound capable of releasing a diffusible dye on being reduced, and a reducing agent, wherein the light-sensitive material further contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I), (II), or (III); ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, with a proviso that R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a group having no redox activity after its cleavage and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.

Abstract: A heat developable color photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least a photosensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye providing compound capable of releasing or forming a diffusible dye in correspondence or counter-correspondence to reduction of the silver halide to silver, said heat developable color photosensitive material further comprising a compound represented by formula (I):C.sub.6n (H.sub.2 O).sub.5n+1 (I)wherein n represents an integer of 1 or more. The material exhibits excellent raw preservability and provides a stain-free color image having a high maximum density.

Abstract: A heat-developable color light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a dye providing compound capable of releasing or forming a diffusible dye in correspondence or counter-correspondence to a reaction in which silver halide is reduced to silver, a basic metal salt compound which is sparingly soluble in water, and at least one acid precursor compound represented by formula (I) or formula (II): ##STR1## wherein the total number of carbon atoms included in R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is at least 10, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a group represented by formula (III) or formula (IV): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.11, R.sup.12, R.sup.13, R.sup.14, R.sup.15, R.sup.16, R.sup.17 and R.sup.18 each represents a substituent, provided that R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are selected such that the sum of the aliphatic Taft's constants (.sigma.* value) of the substituents represented by formula (III), the Taft's constants (.sigma.-value) of R.sup.14 and R.sup.

Abstract: A novel blocked photographically useful compound comprises a new blocking group that (a) comprises two electrophilic groups, the least electrophilic of which is bonded directly or through a timing group to the photographically useful group (PUG) of the compound, (b) is capable of reacting with a dinucleophile reagent, and (c) has the two electrophilic groups separated from each other by a bond or unsubstituted or substituted atom that enables nucleophilic displacement to occur with release of PUG when the compound is reacted with a dinucleophile reagent. Such a blocked photographically useful compound is useful in a photographic material and process to provide increased stability and enable more rapid release of the photographically useful group upon reaction with a dinucleophile reagent.

Abstract: A color diffusion transfer photographic material comprises a base having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer and a dye image-receiving layer, at least one layer thereof containing a dye-releasing redox compound and at least one layer thereof containing a development inhibitor-releasing compound represented by the following general formula (I):A--Time).sub.t DIG (I)wherein A represents ##STR1## linked to --Time).sub.t DIG through at least one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and EAG; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a single bond or a substituent other than a hydrogen atom, provided that R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be linked to form a ring; EAG represents an electron-accepting group; Time represents a group capable of releasing DIG after EAG accepts an electron; DIG represents a development inhibitor precursor; and t is an integer of 0 or 1.

Abstract: A light-sensitive photohardenable composition comprising a reducing agent, a light-sensitive silver halide, a polymerizable compound, and a coumarin or a ketocoumarin.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material which comprises a support having coated thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the photographic material contains a blocked photographic agent represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a photographic agent moiety which is bonded to a blocking moiety through a hetero atom, or a precursor thereof; R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group; and Z represents atoms necessary to form a carboxylic ring or a heterocyclic ring. The blocked photographic agent is completely stable upon storage of the photographic material, and releases a photographic agent at a desired time upon processing of the photographic material. The blocked photographic agent also exhibits its function to a substantial degree over a wide range.

Abstract: Water-soluble substantially non-hardening aldehydes or water-soluble substantially non-hardening aldehyde precursor compounds are suitable as fog-reducing compounds for the photographic dye diffusion transfer process in which an imagewise-exposed color photographic recording material containing light-sensitive silver salt and a non-diffusing dye-releasing compound in at least one binder layer arranged on a layer support, is developed, preferably under the effect of heat, to produce a diffusible dye image and in which the diffusible dye image is transferred to an image receptor layer.

Abstract: A method of processing a silver halide photographic material comprising processing the silver halide photographic material in the presence of an antifoggant which is an organic compound which loses its developing restraining function by a reduction oxidation reaction with oxidized developers. The method improves the discrimination between image and non-image areas of the silver halide photographic material by the novel antifoggant which restrains fog selectively in non-image areas without decreasing photographic sensitivity and image density. The organic compound can be an anti-foggant which possesses a moiety according to the Kendall-Pelz rule and either a mercapto group or a cyclic NH group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dye diffusion transfer imaging process comprising transferring image-wise by diffusion an acid dye to an image-receiving layer incorporating a non-polymeric phosphonium mordanting agent and a copolymer latex comprising free weak acid groups as a stabilizer for the mordanting agent, wherein the image-wise transfer of said acid dye is performed in the presence of a heterocyclic compound corresponding to one of the following general formulae I, II, and III: ##STR1## wherein: Y represents the non-metallic atoms needed to complete a saturated or unsaturated 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic nucleus, which may carry a fused-on aromatic ring system, and M represents hydrogen, an alkali metal atom, a quaternary ammonium group, or a negative charge forming an inner salt with a quaternized nitrogen atom of the heterocyclic compound. The invention also provides an image receptor element for dye diffusion transfer imaging processes comprising a support and such image-receiving layer.

Abstract: A process for processing a silver halide color photographic material which comprises processing, after color development, a silver halide color photographic material with a processing solution having a bleaching faculty using an aminopolycarboxylic acid ferric complex salt as an oxidizing agent, said color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one compound releasing by the reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent a group releasing or forming development inhibitor by the reaction with another molecule of an oxidation product of a developing agent.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material which comprises, after color development of an exposed silver halide color photographic material containing a hydrolyzable type DIR coupler, rapidly processing the developed silver halide color photographic material with a liquid having a bleaching ability and subsequently with a liquid having a bleach-fixing ability, to thereby form a color image.In accordance with the method for processing a silver halide color photographic material, desilveration is completed in a short period of time and color photographic images having excellent color reproducibility and fastness are obtained.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which is improved on fog without decreasing photosensitivity. The photographic material comprises a support and a photographic structural layer provided thereon containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive layer. A nitrogen-containing heterocyclic mercapto compound is contained at least two layers of the photographic structure layer, and at least one of these mercapto compound-containing layer is a non-light-sensitive layer.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material which contains at least one blocked photographic reagent having in the molecule thereof at least one ##STR1## structure and capable of releasing a photogrpahically useful reagent by cleavage of the ##STR2## bond by a nucleophilic attack of a nucleophilic reagent on the structure and a subsequent intramolecular electron transfer reaction or an intramolecular nucleophilic reaction and which has at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer. There is provided a photogrphic material which includes, in combination, a photographic reagent precursor capable of releasing a photographically useful reagent timely on photographic processing and a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer.

Abstract: A processing composition for use in color diffusion transfer photograph is disclosed, comprising a compound represented formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together form a ring; M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or ammonium; and Y represents a sulfonyl or carbonyl group.

Abstract: There is described a photographic system wherein development of an exposed photosensitive element with an aqueous alkaline photographic developing composition is effected in the presence of a compound represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R is --OH, --OR.sub.4, --NH.sub.2 --NHR.sub.5 or --NR.sub.4 R.sub.6 ; R.sub.1 is hydrogen, --NH.sub.2, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each independently is hydrogen, alkyl, aralkyl or aryl; R.sub.4 is a protecting group which can be removed in the presence of a base; R.sub.5 is an activating group which can render the neighboring hydrogen atom acidic; R.sub.6 is an electron withdrawing group which is capable of stabilizing the negative charge on the nitrogen atom which is produced upon removal of R.sub.4 upon contact with alkali; and PHOTO is a photographically useful group.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a blocked photographic agent capable of releasing a photographically useful agent, which method comprises processing the photographic light-sensitive material in the presence of an oxime.According to this method for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, both stability of the photographic light-sensitive material during storage and release of a photographically useful agent during processing are achieved without undersirable side-reactions, and a high sensitivity/fog ratio is obtained.

Abstract: A dye-fixing material having a dye-fixing layer which functions so as to fix a mobile hydrophilic dye by applying heat thereto, which dye is formed in an imagewise distribution by exposing to an imagewise pattern of light a heat developable light-sensitive material capable of forming the mobile hydrophilic dye by the reaction with a light-sensitive silver halide upon heating under a substantially water-free condition and subsequently or simultaneously, by heating the light-sensitive material; with the dye-fixing material comprising a support having provided thereon a single or a multiple layer which contains at least (a) a dye-fixing agent and (b) such a compound as to react with or adsorb a silver halide and therethrough, as to function as a development stopper and/or an antifoggant.

Abstract: A novel photographic element is disclosed. The element comprises a light-sensitive element including a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated on a support, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer or other photographic layers contain at least one development inhibitor precursor represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A represents a phenyl group or a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring group; L represents a chemical bond or divalent linking group; p and q each represents an integer of 1 or 2; and n represents 0 or 1.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material which comprises a support having coated thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the photographic material contains at least one blocked photographic agent represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a photographic agent moiety which is bonded to a blocking moiety through a hetero atom, or a precursor thereof; R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each represents a hydrogen atom, or a substituent group; and Z represents atoms necessary to form a carbocyclic ring or a heterocyclic ring (except for a heterocyclic ring which contains an NH group at the position adjacent to the carbon atom to which R.sup.1 is attached). The blocked photographic agent is completely stable upon storage of the photographic material, and releases a photographic agent at a desired time upon processing. The blocked photographic agent also exhibits its function to a substantial degree over a wide range of pH.

Abstract: A method for forming an image which has a step of heating an image-forming material in the presence of a compound represented by formula (I), whereby unevenness of image density and increase in fog due to fluctuation of development temperature, which have so far been caused in heat-developable photosensitive materials, can be prevented from occurring: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, or a group selected from a class consisting of groups represented by formulae (A) to (C) ##STR2## wherein R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, an aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkyloxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, or a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, or R.sup.11 and R.sup.

Abstract: A method of processing a photographic material which contains a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a blocked photographic agent capable of releasing a photographically useful agent by ring cleavage of a 4- to 7-membered ring containing at least one carbonyl group in the presence of a hydroxylamine, whereby both high stability of the photographic material upon storage and timely release of the photographically useful agent upon processing are achieved.

Abstract: Photographic elements and assemblages are described which employ nondiffusible N',N'-diaromatic carbocyclic--or diaromatic heterocyclic--sulfonohydrazide compounds which are capable of releasing photographically useful groups in an imagewise manner as a function of silver halide development.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described, comprising a support having thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a blocked photographic agent represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A represents a photographically useful agent moiety, which may have a timing group; X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represents a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, or a sulfinyl group; Z represents an atomic group forming a 5-membered, 6-membered, or 7-membered ring; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an acyl group, a sulfonyl group, or a heterocyclic group; R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a heterocyclic group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group; m represents 0, 1, or 2; n represents 0 or 1; and the total of m+n is 1, 2, or 3.

Abstract: A heat-developable color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a hydrophilic binder, a dye releasing redox compound capable of releasing a hydrophilic dye and a compound represented by the following general formula (IIA): ##STR1## wherein B represents an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group; m represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 4; and A represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an amino group, an N-substituted amino group, an acylamino group, a carbamoyl group, an N-substituted carbamoyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an alkylsulfonylamino group, an arylsulfonylamino group, a sulfamoyl group, an N-substituted sulfamoyl group, a cyano group, a hydroxy group, a nitro group or a halogen atom and when m represents 2 or more A may be the same or different.

Abstract: Photographic elements and assemblages are described which employ nondiffusible compounds which release photographically useful groups in an imagewise manner as the result of a .beta.-elimination reaction.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described, comprising a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer associated with a substantially immobile, positive one-equivalent redox compound capable of releasing a photographically useful compound or a precursor thereof as a result of a redox reaction, said compound being represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Acp represents an anion center precursor capable of causing --Z--Q to be released by a quinonemethide type releasing reaction when being reduced R.sup.1 and R.sup.

Abstract: A photographic element comprised of a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the element containing a development inhibitor precursor, is disclosed. The development inhibitor precursor is a compound represented by following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group or a 5-membered or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; Q represents a naphthalene skeleton; R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3, which may be the same or different, independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent; and n represents 1 or 2. The photographic element gives improved image quality particularly in the low Dmin area. The element can be processed over a wide range of different processing temperatures and has improved preservability.

Abstract: A color diffusion transfer photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support, at least one silver halide layer on the support, said emulsion layer being associated with a dye-providing compound, and an image-receiving layer on the same support as above or on another support, wherein said photographic light-sensitive material is able to provide a transferred dye image composed of a diffusible dye or its precursor released or derived from the dye-providing compound as a result of development under a strong alkaline condition in the presence of at least one meso ionic 1,2,4-triazolium-3-thiolate compound. In the present material, fog can be prevented efficiently without causing the problems of a reduction in sensitivity and a decrease in rate of development.

Abstract: This invention relates to nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein Z is non-metallic atoms necessary to form a tetrazole, a benzotriazole or a benzothiazole, either substituted or unsubstituted, n is either 1 or 2 and R is alkyl or phenyl. The above mentioned compounds can be suitably used in a photographic material as a development inhibitor precursor.

Abstract: An image-forming process is disclosed. This process comprises heating a photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least light-sensitive silver halide, binder, and a dye releasing redox compound in the presence of a compound represented by the following general formula (A): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a (m+n)-valent straight, branched or cyclic alkane or a (m+n)-valent straight, branched or cyclic alkene, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represents a straight, branched or cyclic alkyl group or a straight, branched or cyclic alkenyl group, n represents 0, 1, 2 or 3, and m represents 0, 1 or 2, with m+n being 1 or more,after, or simultaneously with, imagewise exposure in the state of substantial absence of water to thereby imagewise form a mobile dye.

Abstract: There is described a photographic system wherein development of an exposed photosensitive element with an aqueous alkaline processing composition is effected in the presence of a compound which is a salt of a radical of a substituted phenylmercaptoazole complexed with a radical of a quaternary. The salts are either insoluble or have extremely low solubility in water and become soluble, and photographically active, in alkaline environment.

Abstract: A color light-sensitive material is provided, comprising on a support at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a dye providing substance which provides a mobile dye in inverse-relationship to the reduction reaction of silver ion to silver, and a development inhibitor precursor of the general formula (I):PWR--Time--.sub.t AF (I)wherein PWR represents a group which releases (Time--hd tAF by being reduced; AF represents a group which serves as a development inhibitor after being released; Time represents a group which releases AF through a reaction following the release of --Time--.sub.t AF from PWR; and t represents an integer of 0 or 1.