Abstract: An element for cleaning processing solutions contained in a radiographic film processor is disclosed. The element is comprised of a transparent film support and hydrophilic colloid layers coated on opposite sides of the film support. An infrared opacifying dye is contained within the element capable of reducing specular transmission through the element before, during and after processing to less than 50 percent, measured at a wavelength within the spectral region of from 850 to 1100 nm. A processing solution soluble colorant can be contained in one or more of the hydrophilic colloid layers.

Abstract: A color negative photographic film with at least one color record thereof having a mid-scale contrast less than or equal to 0.45, wherein the mid-scale contrast for the color record is defined as the slope of a straight line connecting a point C and and a point D on the characteristic curve of density versus log Exposure for the color record, where points C and D are located by defining a point A on the characteristic curve at a density level 0.1 above minimum density, a point B is located on the characteristic curve at an exposure value +1.0 Log Exposure beyond point A, and points C and D are located at exposure values -0.45 log Exposure and +0.45 log Exposure with respect to point B, respectively. Use of such a color negative film is particularly advantageous in making telecine transfers.

Abstract: A color photographic print material with the usual three different sensitized silver halide emulsion layers and at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing no color coupler (control layer) with a spectral sensitization range outside the sensitization range of the image-producing layers, wherein the control layer contains a substance A, which, on negative development of the silver halide emulsion used in the control layer (control emulsion), releases a compound B which alters the gradation of the image-producing layers, is usable as a print material with variable gradation.

Abstract: An infrared sensitive silver halide photographic element is disclosed comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer spectrally sensitized to the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. In particular, an infrared sensitive color photographic element, capable of providing full color images without exposure to corresponding visible radiation, is disclosed, said element comprising at least three silver halide emulsion layers on a substrate, each associated with different photographic color image forming materials, such as color couplers capable of forming dyes of different colors upon reaction with an oxidized color photographic developer, diffusing dyes, bleachable dyes, or oxidized leuco dyes. The three emulsion layers are sensitized to three different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum with at least two layers sensitized to different regions of the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Abstract: In order to provide a direct-positive material having low contrast and extended latitude that can be manufactured in a consistent and reproducable way a multilayer direct-positive photographic material is disclosed as well as the process to provide it, characterized by the steps of coating on one side of a support at least two layers of direct positive silver halide emulsions of the externally fogged type, at least one layer of which comprises a mixture of direct positive silver halide emulsions of the externally fogged type and at least one layer of which comprises one or more filter dyes; overcoating said emulsion layers with at least one protective layer; coating on the other side of the support at least one backing layer.

Abstract: A method of forming an image in which a silver halide photographic material having on a waterproof resin coated support, which contains titanium dioxide in the resin, one or more light-sensitive layers each containing silver halide emulsion grains where at least one light-sensitive layer has been spectrally sensitized in accordance with the oscillating wavelength of a laser ray to be applied to the material is exposed by scanning exposure for a period of exposure time, per pixel, of 1.times.10.sup.-7 second or less with a scanning exposure device equipped with an optical modulator capable of varying the quantity of light in plural stages, to form a photographic image. The quantity of the reflection light from the photographic material at the oscillating wavelength of the laser beam is 30% or less of the quantity of the incident light to the same.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising:(a) a support,(b) at least three silver halide photosensitive emulsion layers on said support, where(i) each of said at least three photosensitive layers has spectral sensitivity peaks in three different light wavelength regions of not smaller than 650 nm, and(ii) said the photosensitive layer contains a cyan coupler, the other photosensitive layer contains a magenta coupler and the another photosensitive layer contains a yellow coupler, and(c) silver halide of said at least three photosensitive emulsion layers comprises silver chloride or silver chlorobromide containing at least 96 mol% silver chloride, where grains of silver halide of at least one of said three layers further contain from 0.01 to 3 mol% of silver iodide (based on the amount of silver halide in the emulsion) on the grain surface or sub-surface.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material comprising a support which is both side coated with a polyolefin resin is disclosed. A hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a white pigment and a silver halide emulsion layer are provided on the support and the silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of the compounds represented by the following Formula I, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 represents a fluorine atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a dialkylamino group, an alkylthio group or an arylthio group; R.sub.3 represents a group substitutable to a benzene ring; n is an integer of 0 or 1; Z represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off when coupling it to the oxidized product of a developing agent; and Y represents a monovalent organic group including a ballast group.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is provided comprising at least one yellow-developable silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta-developable silver halide emulsion layer and at least one cyan-developable silver halide emulsion layer on a support, characterized in that said at least one cyan-developable silver halide emulsion layer comprises at least one cyan dye-forming coupler represented by the following general formula (Ia) and silver bromochloride or silver chloride emulsion grains substantially free of silver iodide having a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more spectrally sensitized with at least one sensitizing dye having a reduction potential of -1.27 V (vs. SCE) or lower: ##STR1## wherein Za represents --NH-- or --CH(R.sub.3)--; Zb and Zc each represents --C(R.sub.4).dbd. or --N.dbd.; R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents an electron withdrawing group having a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma..sub.p value of 0.20 or more, with the proviso that the sum of .sigma.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic material comprising a silver halide emulsion layer sensitized to light above 700 nm by means of an infrared sensitizing dye having a maximum absorption between 700 nm and 850 nm characterized in that said silver halide emulsion further comprises a red sensitizing dye of the cationic type having a maximum absorption between 600 nm and 700 nm. The thus obtained photographic material shows an increased sensitivity in the infrared region. The material can be used in as silver salt diffusion transfer process to prepare a lithographic printing plate.

Abstract: The image forming process of the present invention includes subjecting a photosensitive material having at least one dye-forming layer for each of the three primary colors on a support to scanning exposure using light sources modulated in accordance with the image data, thereby reproducing a full color image of quality in which delicate shades in a high density color developed portion of high purity are reproduced stably.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material which is rapidly processable, high sensitive and small in variations in sensitivity between production lots of the photograhic material. The silver halide photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye forming coupler, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye forming coupler, and a silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye forming coupler on a reflective support, wherein at least one layer of said silver halide emulsion layers comprises silver halide emulsion grains and compounds represented by the following general formulas (I) and (II), said emulsion grains being tabular silver halide emulsion grains having (100) planes as main planes and a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more, and further the mean bromide ion content on surfaces of said emulsion grains is twice or more that of the whole emulsion grains: ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined herein the specification.

Abstract: There is described a photographic system comprising a variable contrast black and white photographic element and at least one filter. The element and the filter are so chosen that they cooperate to provide an extension of log exposure range of the element.

Abstract: A color photographic material comprising at least one cyan-coupling silver halide emulsion layer containing a red sensitizer, at least one magenta-coupling silver halide emulsion layer containing a green sensitizer and at least one yellow-coupling silver halide emulsion layer containing a blue sensitizer on a support, in which a silver halide emulsion is provided in a coupler-free layer sensitized with another spectral sensitizer (a gap sensitizer) of which the sensitization maximum lies between the sensitization maxima of the red- and green-sensitive layers or the green- and blue-sensitive layers, is distinguished by an extended gradation range towards the maximum densities and by distinctly improved detail reproduction in the region of high densities.

Abstract: Silver halide photographic element comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer, characterised in that said silver halide emulsion layer is spectrally sensitized to infrared radiation with a tricarbocyanine dye having the formula: ##STR1## wherein, Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 each independently represents the atoms necessary to complete a thiazole nucleus or an oxazole nucleus,Z.sub.3 represents the atoms necessary to complete a 5-membered N-containing aromatic ring, Q represents the atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic ring, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represents an alkyl group, X.sup.- represents an anion, and n represents an integer of 1 to 2, provided that n is 1 when the dye forms an intramolecular salt.

Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer which is cyan coupling and contains a red sensitizer, at least one magenta coupling silver halide emulsion layer containing a green sensitizer and at least one yellow coupling silver halide emulsion layer containing a blue sensitizer on a support, in which the at least one blue sensitive halide emulsion layer contains a further spectral sensitizer (gap sensitizer) whose sensitization maximum lies between the sensitization maxima of the red and green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and/or the at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains an additional spectral sensitizer (gap sensitizer) whose sensitization maximum lies between the sensitization maxima of the green sensitive and the blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is distinguished by an increased range of gradations in the region of the maximum densities and a markedly improved detail reproduction in the region of high densities.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which includes, on a support, at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler, and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, and in which a weight-averaged wavelength (.lambda..sub.-R) of a spectral sensitivity distribution of magnitude of an interimage effect which the silver halide emulsion layers except for all of the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers have on the red-sensitive layers over a range of 500 to 600 nm is 500 nm<.lambda..sub.-R <560 nm, and a difference between weight-averaged wavelength (.lambda..sub.G) of a spectral sensitivity distribution of at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and .lambda..sub.-R is .lambda..sub.G -.lambda..sub.-R .ltoreq.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material comprising a support having thereon light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and a nonlight-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer, wherein the color photographic material has a coating weight of silver of not more than 4.0 g per m.sup.2 of a photographic material and an ISO speed of 25 or more, and wherein a silver halide emulsion contained in at least one of the light-sensitive emulsion layers is spectrally sensitized by a process comprising (i) forming a dispersion of a substantially water-insoluble spectral sensitizing dye in the form of solid particles dispersed in an aqueous medium which is free from an organic solvent or a surfactant and (ii) incorporating the dispersion in the silver halide emulsion.

Abstract: A heat-developable color light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers each sensitive to a different spectral wavelength region, one silver halide emulsion layer or a light-insensitive layer adjacent thereto containing a yellow dye-providing compound, a second silver halide emulsion layer or a light-insensitive layer adjacent thereto containing a magenta dye-providing compound and a third silver halide emulsion layer or a light-insensitive layer adjacent thereto containing a cyan dye-providing compound; at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers having a maximum spectral sensitivity at a wavelength of at least 700 nm and a spectral sensitivity at a wavelength 20 nm longer than said maximum spectral sensitivity wavelength of at most 1/10 of said maximum spectral sensitivity.

Abstract: A photographic product having an exposure function is described, which has therein a built-in color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer and having a specific photographic sensitivity of 640 or more, wherein the built-in color photographic material is characterized by blue, green and red density function curves D (logE) in which in each curve a region defined by a gamma (<.gamma.>=dD/dlogE) of 0.4 or more is 2.8 or more as logE.

Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprised of a support and a sequence of superimposed blue, green and red recording silver halide emulsion layer units that produce images of the same hue upon imagewise exposure and photographic development. A first interlayer unit overlies the emulsion layer unit nearest the support and is capable of transmitting to it imagewise exposing radiation this emulsion layer unit is intended to record. A second interlayer unit underlies the emulsion layer unit farthest from the support and is capable of transmitting to the emulsion layer units lying nearer the support imagewise exposing radiation these emulsion layer units are intended to record. The imagewise exposed photographic element is photographically developed and fixed to produce a silver image in each of the emulsion layer units.

Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprised of a sequence of superimposed blue, green and red recording silver halide emulsion layer units at least two of which produce images of the same hue upon processing. The photographic element is additionally comprised of, interposed between the two emulsion layer units, an interlayer unit for transmitting to the emulsion layer unit of the two units which is nearer the support, electromagnetic radiation that this emulsion layer unit is intended to record and capable, after processing, of reflecting electromagnetic radiation within at least one wavelength region.

Abstract: An image is formed in a color photosensitive material through scanning exposure by using at least one semiconductor laser excited solid laser including a semiconductor laser, a non-linear optical element and means for controlling the temperature thereof as a light source for producing a laser beam. The laser beam is modulated by an external modulator in accordance with the image to be formed. Among the combinations of photosensitive layers and laser beams, at least two laser beam light sources are such that a laser beam has a wavelength falling within .+-.20 nm from the maximum wavelength in the spectral sensitivity distribution of the corresponding photosensitive layer. Each photosensitive layer has a spectral sensitivity distribution with a peak width of up to 40 nm.

Abstract: A color light-sensitive material comprising at least three light-sensitive layers having different color-sensitivity from one another provided on a support. Each layer comprises a combination of at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder and a dye-providing compound. At least one layer thereof has a spectral sensitization peak in at least two wavelength regions, the peaks in the at least two wavelength regions being at least 50 nm away from each other and at least one spectral sensitization peak thereof exists in the wavelength region of 700 nm or above.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material for laser exposure comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support,wherein said support or photographic constituent layers of said material contain an antihalation dye which exhibits a spectral absorption density of 0.4 or more before development with respect to the wavelength corresponding to the laser used and a spectral absorption density of 0.2 or more after development when the fluctuations of the average visual density excluding the support density and emulsion fog density are 0.02 or less.

Abstract: A color photographic element which contains a color correction layer above at least one red sensitive layer of the element results in an element having excellent color reproduction.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material comprising a support which is both side coated with a polyolefin resin is disclosed. A hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a white pigment and a silver halide emulsion layer are provided on the support and the silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of the compounds represented by the following Formula I, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 represents a fluorine atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a dialkylamino group, an alkylthio group or an arylthio group; R.sub.3 represents a group substitutable to a benzene ring; n is an integer of 0 or 1; Z represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off when coupling it to the oxidized product of a developing agent; and Y represents a monovalent organic group including a ballast group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a symmetrical radiographic assembly comprising:a double side radiographic element which comprises a support and hydrophilic colloid layers coated on each side of said support, andan intensifying screen adjacent to each side of said radiographic element,wherein on each side of said support are coated at least two silver halide emulsion layers having a speed difference of at least 0.5 logE and an average contrast difference of at least 0.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a hydrophilic colloidal layer structure including at least two silver halide emulsion layers provided on at least one common side of a transparent support, wherein the average content of iridium compound per unit mol of silver in the silver halide emulsion layer on the side nearer to the support is greater than that of the silver halide emulsion layer located further from the support, and, characterized by at least one of (1) when exposed to laser light having a wavelength of 600 to 850 nm, the maximum value of .gamma. on the characteristic curve of optical density versus exposure (logarithm) is not more than 3.2; or (2) the average grain size of the grains in the silver halide emulsion layer located further from the support is greater than that of the grains in the silver halide emulsion layer located nearer to the support.

Abstract: There is provided a silver halide photographic material which comprises a support having thereon at least three kinds of silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layers differing from one another in color sensitivity, at least two kinds of which comprise silver halide emulsion grains sensitized spectrally with sensitizing dyes providing their respective spectral sensitivity maxima at wavelength of longer than about 570 nm, with the photographic material further containing at least one water-soluble dye which is selected from eight groups having specified structural formulae respectively and has an absorption maximum at wavelengths longer than about 570 nm, thereby acquiring an aptitude with scanning exposure using at least two kinds of light sources capable of emitting monochromatic high-intensity beams of wavelengths longer than 570 nm and ensuring high resolving power without attended by aggravation of color separation.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a reflective support having thereon a yellow dye image forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye image forming silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan dye image forming silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said yellow dye image forming layer, magenta dye image forming layer and cyan dye image forming layer exhibit a maximum spectral sensitivity in the range of 400 to 490 nm, 530 to 570 nm and 660 to 720 nm, respectively, said silver halide emulsion of said cyan dye image forming layer comprises a silver chloride, silver bromochloride or silver bromochloroiodide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more with a maximum spectral sensitivity given by J-band absorption of a compound represented by the general formula (I), ##STR1## wherein the variables are described in the specification.

Abstract: Disclosed is a diffusion transfer color photographic material at least having a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a non-diffusive dye donor compound capable of releasing or forming a diffusive dye in correspondence or reverse correspondence with the reaction of reducing the silver halide to silver, and a non-diffusive filter dye, on a support, in which the filter dye is in the form of an emulsified dispersion along with the dye donor compound. The color separatability of the processed material is good and the discrimination of the formed image is also good. The raw film of the material is free from lowering of the filter effect after storage.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material which has been spectrally sensitized to light of wavelengths greater than of about 670 nm in which are highly sensitive to light of wavelength greater than about 670 nm and sufficiently insensitive to visible light having a shorter wavelength. The photosensitive materials comprises a silver halide photosensitive layer containing the yellow coupler, a silver halide photosensitive layer containing a magenta coupler, a silver halide photosensitive layer containing a cyan coupler and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic layer. Each of the photosensitive layers are spectrally sensitized such that they have different peak spectral sensitivities at light wavelengths greater than about 670 nm.

Abstract: A radiation detecting element, particularly a photographic element having a radiation detecting composition, in particular a silver halide emulsion. The composition provides the element with a wavelength of peak sensitivity, .lambda.peaksens, and a decreasing sensitivity around .lambda.peaksens. An absorber dye of defined characteristics is chosen, which has the effect of decreasing the change in sensitivity which the element otherwise has without the absorber dye (that is, the absorber dye increases the wavelength range over which the sensitivity is relatively constant). The element is preferably sensitive to infra-red.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic emulsion spectrally sensitized in the wavelength range longer than 730 nm, and full-color recording materials containing such a photographic emulsion. The photographic emulsion has undergone J-band sensitization by containing at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I) in an amount of from 0.3 to 0.9 based on the specific addition amount defined in the disclosure, at a temperature ranging from 60.degree. C. to 85.degree. C. to gain a spectral sensitivity maximum at a wavelength from 730 nm to 900 nm: ##STR1## wherein Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 each represents a sulfur or selenium atom; Q.sub.1 and Q.sub.2 each represents a methylene group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents an alkyl group; R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclyl group; L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.sub.3 each represents a methine group; A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 each represents the atoms necessary for completing a benzene ring; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may combine with L.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographicmaterial capable of providing an excellent rapid processing property and sharpness as well as forming little stain on a background after processing.

Abstract: There is provided a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which is improved in sensitivity, fog and resistance to formalin, and capable of providing photoprins of the same hue irrespective of the type of a printer employed.

Abstract: A dye diffusion transfer type heat developable color light-sensitive material is described including a support having thereon at least three light-sensitive layers containing, in combination, silver halide emulsions which are sensitive in different spectral regions from one another and dye providing compounds capable of releasing or forming diffusible dyes having different hues from one another, wherein the material has an exposure side which is subjected to incident light from a light source, wherein at least two layers of the at least three light-sensitive layers include a first light-sensitive layer containing an emulsion spectrally sensitized to a part of infrared rays and a second light-sensitive layer which is positioned on the exposure side nearer to the light source than is the first light-sensitive layer and contains an emulsion spectrally sensitized to a part of infrared rays having a wavelength shorter than that of the infrared rays applied to the emulsion of the first light-sensitive layer, and th

Abstract: A color photographic element which contains a color correction layer above at least one red sensitive layer of the element results in an element having excellent color reproduction.

Abstract: Disclosed is 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, wherein at least one of green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one of magenta couplers represented by Formula M-I and at least one of compounds capable of releasing a development inhibitor or a precursor of a development inhibitor, upon reaction with oxidized products of a development agent, represented by Formula D-I; ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group consisting of a non-metal atoms necessary to form a nitrogen containing heterocyclic ring, provided, the ring formed by the Z may have a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group releasable upon reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agents; and R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, R.sub.

Abstract: A light sensitive silver halide photographic material for the use of X-ray photography, wherein the effective contrast characteristics of the photographic material can be changed as required for the type image being exposed, as a function of the number and disposition of fluorescent intensifying screens. The photographic material has a support carrying first and second emulsion layers on each side thereof. The first layer has a maximum density and sensitivity higher than that of the second layer; the second layer has a density of not more than 0.2 when exposed from the side of the first layer with sufficient irradiation to give the first layer a density of 1.0; and the slope connecting two points corresponding to densities of 0.8 and 1.3 above the fog or baseline on a characteristic curve of the first layer is more than the slope of a line connecting two points of 0.3 and 0.5 above the fog or baseline on a characteristic curve of the second layer.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material containing a support having thereon three color-forming layers, which comprises, in said color-forming silver halide emulsion layers, high-silver-chloride grains, silver halide grains in the cyan color-forming layer being spectrally sensitized with a red-sensitive sensitizing dye having a prescribed reduction potential, and/or, in the cyan color-forming layer, an oil-soluble cyan coupler that cause coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine developing-agent to form a nondiffusible dye, a compound represented by formula (I) or (II), and a compound represented by formula (II) or (IV). ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a halogen atom, R.sub.2, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.7, and R.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which contains a tricarbocyanine dye having at least two acidic groups in such a condition that said dye may show its absorption maximum at a wavelength shifted to the longer wavelength direction by at least 50 nm, compared with that of the absorption maximum in an aqueous solution, and that within the range of 900 nm to 1,500 nm, whereby facilitating the detection of the position of said light-sensitive material by means of an infrared sensor in the photographic processing with an automatic developing machine.

Abstract: There is provided a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material whose green-sensitive and red-sensitive layers are improved in sensitivity and which involves little variation among printers.

Abstract: An asymmetrical radiographic element is disclosed comprised of a transparent film support, green sensitized silver halide emulsion layer units of differing sensitometric characteristics coated on opposite sides of the film support, and a processing solution decolorizable means for reducing crossover to less than 10 percent. The element is positioned between intensifying screens and mounted in a cassette for exposure to X-radiation. A processing solution decolorizable pentamethineoxonol dye with insignificant absorption at 550 nm is incorporated into an overcoat layer to distinguish which of the emulsion layer units is positioned nearest a source of X-radiation during exposure.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A method of forming a color image in a silver halide color photosensitive material comprisingexposing the photosensitive material in a scanning exposure system for a time period shorter than about 10.sup.-4 second per picture element, and thereaftersubjecting the exposed material to development processing for a total processing time of about 90 seconds or less, inclusive of drying time,the photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers differing in color sensitivity, at least two of which have a spectral sensitivity maximum in the wavelength region of about 670 nm or longer, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers comprises (a) at least one coupler capable of developing color upon coupling reaction with the oxidized form of an aromatic amine compound and (b) at least one compound of general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein the variables are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: Disclosed is 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, wherein at least one of green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one of colored magenta couplers represented by Formula CM-1 and at least one of dyes having absorption maximum at 590 nm to 610 nm is contained in at least one of layers selected from the layers consisting of silver halide emulsion layers and photographic constitution layers; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituent, R.sub.2 represents an acylamino group, a sulfonamide group, an imide group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, an alkoxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, R.sub.3 represents a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, m is an integer of 0 to 5, n is an integer of 0 to 4.

Abstract: 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.