Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one magenta coupler represented by the general formula (I) described below, at least one organic solvent having a high boiling point which has at least one ##STR1## bond in its molecule, wherein R.sub.13 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group or an arylthio group, and at least one compound represented by the general formula (II) described below: ##STR2## wherein Za and Zb each represents ##STR3## or .dbd.N--; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each 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; when the Za-Zb bond is a carbon-carbon double bond, it may form a part of a condensed aromatic; and R.sub.1, R.sub.

Abstract: Color photographic silver halide material which contains in at least one silver halide emulsion layer a magenta coupler of the formulae (I) or (II) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 denotes alkyl, aryl or a ballast radical,R.sub.2 denotes a ballast radical, alkyl, or aryl andZ denotes hydrogen or a group which can be split off on reaction with the developer oxidation product,and a compound of the formula (III) ##STR2## wherein R.sub.3 denotes alkyl, alkoxy, aryl, optionally substituted amino or the radical of a heterocyclic compound andR.sub.

Abstract: A method of forming a color image comprising subjecting an imagewise exposed color photoraphic material to color development at a temperature of from 30.degree. C. to 50.degree. C.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material which has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein at least one type of cyan coupler which is represented by general formula (A) indicated below is included in at least one layer, a high boiling point organic solvent is present in the layer which contains the coupler in a weight ratio with respect to the coupler in the layer of not more than 0.3, and an ultraviolet absorber is included in the layer at a rate of at least 0.05 in terms of the ratio by weight with respect to the cyan coupler: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, T, and l' are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a photographic silver halide emulsion layer is disclosed.

Abstract: A method of preparing a coupler dispersion in gelatin by separating the auxiliary coupler solvent using a hydrophobic microporous membrane and contacting the opposite surface of the membrane with a coupler solvent.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a base, which comprises in the silver halide emulsion layer a magenta coupler represented by formula (I), which has been dispersed by using a chlorinated paraffin having 8 or more carbon atoms. The disclosure as described provides a color photographic material being excellent in color reproduction and having improved light-fastness of the magenta color image from the high density part to the low density part, even when the color photographic material is processed by the color developer contaminated by a small amount of bleaching solution formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Za and Zb each represent .dbd.CH--, ##STR2## or .dbd.N--, R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, R.sub.2 represents a substituent, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group or an atom capable of being released, andi) when there is no R.sub.2 in the molecule, R.sub.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic light sensitive material having at least one silver halide color photographic light-sensitive emulsion layer on a support which comprises (i) at least one coupler represented by Formula (I), (ii) at least one compound represented by Formula (II), (iii) at least one compound represented by Formula (III), and (iv) at least one high boiling organic solvent represented by Formula (IV), wherein each of the couplers and the compounds represented by Formulas (I) to (IV) are incorporated in the same light sensitive layer, and wherein Formulas (I) to (IV) are shown below. ##STR1## The substituents are defined hereinbelow.

Abstract: Base and auxiliary solvent solubilized precipitated dispersions of couplers and other photographic materials usually produce very small particle dispersions, and usually such dispersions are extremely highly reactive because of the smallness of the particle size. However, some relatively more hydrophobic couplers, even though they produce small particles when a dispersion is formed by the precipitation technique, lead to extremely unreactive dispersions. The method of this invention constitutes a single step coprecipitation technique where a base deprotonation compound, preferably a liquid carboxylic acid, is incorporated into the precipitated particles to produce photographically highly active coupler dispersions.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material contains at least one water-insoluble and organic solvent soluble homopolymer or copolymer and at least one yellow coupler of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a tertiary alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkoxy group; R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; and X represents a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent.The silver halide color photographic material has high sensitivity and excellent sharpness, color reproducibility and preservability, before and after processing, as is free from sweating.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material that has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, which emulsion layer contains a compound represented by the following general formula (T) and a yellow coupler represented by the following general formula (Y-I): ##STR1## (where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are each a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group or an alkoxycarbonyl group; X is a divalent group having a carbon atom as a constituent atom of the 6-membered ring; and n is 0, 1 or 2): ##STR2## (where R'.sub.1 is an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group; R'.sub.2 is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an acyl group or an aryl group; R'.sub.

Abstract: This invention describes a process of coprecipitating a photographic material such as a dye-forming coupler inside a base ionizable polymeric particle. Preparation of such a dispersion is performed by providing a first flow comprising a solution of a surfactant in water containing a polymer ionizable by base, providing a second flow comprising a water miscible solvent, base, water, and the photographic material, then mixing the said first and said second flow and immediately neutralizing the mixed flow to precipitate the photographic material inside the polymer particles forming a fine particle colloidal dispersion of the photographic material. The polymer dispersions of the invention are characterized by high photographic activity and high dye-stability in some cases.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein in at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Z represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sub.101 and R.sub.102, which may be the same or different, represent each an alkyl group and at least one of R.sub.101 and R.sub.102 is a butyl group, a pentyl group, a hexyl group, a heptyl group or an octyl group; V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3, V.sub.4, V.sub.5, V.sub.6, V.sub.7 and V.sub.8, which may be the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an acyl group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a carboxyl group, a cyano group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, a sulfo group or an aryl group; of V.sub.1 to V.sub.

Abstract: Base and auxiliary solvent solubilized precipitated dispersions of couplers and other photographic materials usually produce very small particle dispersions, and usually such dispersions are extremely highly reactive because of the smallness of the particle size. However, some relatively more hydrophobic couplers, even though they produce small particles when a dispersion is formed by the precipitation technique, lead to extremely unreactive dispersions. The method of this invention constitutes a single step precipitation technique where a permanent high boiling water insoluble coupler solvent is incorporated into the precipitated particles to produce photographically highly active coupler dispersions.

Abstract: The invention provides stable dispersions of couplers and methods of their formation. The stable dispersions are formed by the use of a nonionic water soluble polymer in combination with an anionic surfactant having a sulfate or sulfonate head group and a hydrophobic group of 8 to 20 carbons. The preferred nonionic water soluble polymers are polyethyleneoxide and polyvinylpyrrolidene. It is preferred that the dispersions have a pH of between about 5 and 5.5.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a hydrophilic colloid layer which contains gelatin and wherein the hydrophilic colloid layer contains fine polymer particles which contains a redox compound which is capable of releasing a development inhibitor by oxidation, and a hydrazine compound, which is not the same as the redox compound, is contained in the hydrophilic colloid layer and/or in another hydrophilic colloid layer.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a base, which comprises in the silver halide emulsion layer a silver halide grains of high silver-chloride and an emulsified dispersion containing lipophilic fine particles that have a limited average particle diameter and include a cyan coupler represented by formula (I), a high-boiling organic solvent having a limited viscosity, and a diffusion-resistant compound represented by formula (II) or (III), and a method for forming an image by developing the said silver halide color photographic material. The disclosure as described provides a color photographic material and a method for forming an image being excellent in image quality and preservation property of cyano color image.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which is improved in stability of cyan dye image formed therein. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing oleophilic dispersed particles. The particles comprises a cyan coupler represented by the following Formula I, an organic solvent selected from phthalic esters having a dielectrical constant of not more than 6.0 and a polymer compounds which is insoluble in water and soluble in a organic solvent: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a ballast group, R.sub.2 is an alkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms and Z.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of splitting off upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which has high sensitivity, high contrast and improved standing stability in the manufacturing process. The light-sensitive material has a silver halide emulsion layer and silver halide grains contained in the emulsion layer are spectrally sensitized by a specific sensitizing dye dissolved in a chain hydrocarbon compound having two or more more hydroxy groups or a mixture of the hydrocarbon compound and a water-miscible solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material that has at least one photographic constituent layer on a support, which photographic material is characterized in that said at least one photographic constituent layer contains a dispersion obtained by emulsifying and dispersing at least one hydrophobic, photographically useful material and at least one polymer compound that is water-insoluble but soluble in organic solvents and which has a phenolic hydroxyl group.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least two hydrophilic colloid layers, wherein at least one of the hydrophilic layers comprises water or a hydrophilic colloid and a compound represented by formula (I) dispersed therein using water or a water-soluble organic solvent:PWR-(Time).sub.t -PUG (I)wherein PWR represents a group capable of releasing (Time).sub.t -PUG upon reduction;Time represents a group capable of releasing the PUG residual group by the successive reaction, after being released as (Time).sub.t -PUG;t represents 0 or 1;PUG represents a photographically useful group; and at least one water-soluble group exists in one molecule of the compound.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed having blue-sensitive, green-sensitive, and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers on a support, wherein said red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a dispersion of fine oleophilic grains formed by dispersing by emulsification a mixture comprising a water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble homopolymer or copolymer and at least one coupler represented by formula (I) or formula (II), and the silver halide emulsion layer or non-light-sensitive layer of the material contains a dye represented by formula (III);wherein formula (I) is represented by ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.12 represents an acylamino group or an alkyl group; R.sub.13 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group, or R.sub.12 and R.sub.13 are bonded together to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; Z.sub.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising a silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein said layer contains a dispersion of fine oleophilic grains, which grains contain at least one nondiffusible oil-soluble cyan coupler capable of forming a substantially nondiffusible dye by coupling with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and at least one coupler solvent which is immiscible with water and has no aromatic group in the molecule and which has a melting point of 100.degree. C. or lower and has a boiling point or decomposition point of 140.degree. C. or higher. As the characteristic feature of the invention, the dispersion of said fine oleophilic grains is formed by emulsifying and dispersing a mixture solution comprising at least one of the coupler, at least one of the coupler solvent and at least one water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble homopolymer or copolymer.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, which material comprises a support and at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer which contains a dispersion of fine lipophilic particles which particles are comprised of at least one type of oil solution non-color forming polymer and an oil soluble coupler which has been rendered fast to diffusion and which can form a dye by coupling with the oxidized form of a primary aromatic amine developing agent, wherein at least 20% by weight of said oil soluble non-color forming polymer has a molecular weight not more than 40,000.

Abstract: A process for preparing a silver halide emulsion, which comprises dissolving one or more substantially water-insoluble photographic additives in a heated solution of an organic solvent containing a surfactant having a hydrophilic --CO.sub.3 or --OSO.sub.3 group to completely dissolve the one or more substantially water-insoluble additives, cooling the resulting solution to precipitate crystals, separating the crystals from the solution, drying the separated crytals, dispersing said crystals in water and adding the resulting dispersion to a silver halide emulsion.

Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive photographic material which comprises a silver halide emulsion layer containing a first coupler dispersed in oil droplets, a second coupler dispersed in an alkali aqueous solution and a compound capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibiting substance or a precursor thereof.The specified combination of the first and the second couplers with the diffusible DIR coupler according to the present invention provide a good inter image effect whereby color images having excellent color balance are obtained.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye forming coupler and a polymer latex, the polymer latex is derived from a monomer represented by the following general formula (A): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; L.sub.1 represents --CONH-- or ##STR2## p represents an integer of from 1 to 4; and q represents an integer of from 1 to 30.The silver halide color photographic material provides a cyan color image without accompanying decrease in color density even when it is processed with an exhausted bleaching or bleach-fixing solution or a bleach or bleach-fixing solution having an weak oxidizing power. Further, the cyan color image is prevented from the occurrence of stain due to irradiation to light for a long period of time after processing.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a cyan coupler-containing layer, a magenta coupler-containing layer and a yellow coupler-containing layer, wherein the cyan coupler-containing layer contains a dispersion of oleophilic fine particles which is obtained by emulsifying or dispersing a solution containing (a) at least one cyan coupler represented by the general formula (I) and/or (II) described below, (b) at least one compound represented by the general formula (III) described below and (c) at least one water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble homopolymer or copolymer, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.4 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, R.sub.3, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or an acylamino group, and R.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon a photographic layer containing:a) at least one compound capable of chemically binding with an aromatic amine developing agent or its oxidation product, which remains after color development processing, to produce a chemically inert and substantially colorless compound andb) at least one of the compounds presented by the following Formulae (I), (II) or (III): ##STR1## wherein X and X' each represents a divalent to hexavalent polyvalent group; n and m each represents an integer of 2 to 6; R represents an aliphatic group; R' represents an aliphatic group or an aromatic group, provided that R or R' existing in the same molecule may be the same or different from each other; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.

Abstract: A color photographic recording material comprising a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, with which a yellow coupler of the pivaloyl or benzoyl acetanilide type dissolved in a polymeric ester of aromatic or aliphatic dicarboxylic acids is associated, is distinguished by greater color purity and better dark-fading stability.

Abstract: The present invention provides silver halide color photographic materials having a layer which contains at least one magenta color image-forming oleophilic coupler of the following formulae (I) and/or (II) and at least one of the following formula (III): ##STR1## in which Ar represents a phenyl group which is substituted by at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group and a cyano group; Y represents an acylamino group or an anilino group; and Z.sub.1 represents a group capable of being removed by coupling, ##STR2## in which X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being removed by coupling;W represents a hydrogen atom, an acyl group or an aliphatic or aromatic sulfonyl group;Za and Zb each represent a methine group, a substituted methine group or --N.dbd.; andX, Z.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one type of cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I) below and at least one type of difficulty water-soluble epoxy represented by formula (II) below: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group having at least 7 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group with 2 to 15 carbon atoms, L represents a simple linkage or a bivalent linking group, Z represents a hydrogen atom, or a group or atom which can be released at the time of the coupling with the developing agent, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aliphatic oxycarbonyl group, an aromatic oxycarbonyl group or a carbamoyl group, provided that R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are not all hydrogen atoms, and the total number of carbon atoms thereof is from 8 to 60, and in formula (II), a 5- to 7-membered ring may be formed with R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 or R.sub.3 and R.sub.5, respectively.

Abstract: Color photographic motion picture elements adapted to form a multicolor photographic dye image and an integral, infrared-absorbing, dye sound track and comprising 1-hydroxy-2-N-(5-alkyl-thiazol-2-yl)-naphthamide couplers that are capable of forming quinone imine dyes absorbing infrared radiation in the spectral range from about 600 to about 1000 nm by reaction with an oxidized aromatic primary amino developing agent, the thiazol-2- yl group of said naphthamide couplers bearing a 4-para-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxyphenyl group or a 4-para-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylphenyl group, the hydrogen atoms of said C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl being unsubstituted or at least one of them having been substituted by a halogen atom.

Abstract: In a color print containing cyan, magenta and yellow colored dyes, the color print where the spectral absorption peak wave lengths of the respective colored dyes lie in the range represented by the following formula:1/2(.lambda.y+.lambda.c).gtoreq..lambda.m.gtoreq.1/2(.lambda.y+.lambda.c)-1 0.lambda.c=Spectral absorption peak wave length (nm) of the colored cyan dye.lambda.m=Spectral absorption peak wave length (nm) of the colored magenta dye.lambda.y=Spectral absorption peak wave length (nm) of the colored yellow dyeIn the color print, improvement of the color reproduction and improvement of the observation light source dependency, which hitherto tend to conflict with each other, can be attained at the same time.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having a support and at least one hydrophilic colloid layer provided thereon, the hydrophilic colloid layer containing a dispersion obtained by dissolving a diffusion resistant oil-soluble cyan coupler which forms a substantially nondiffusible dye by coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and a hydrophobic polymer latex formed in an aqueous medium in each other, in which the polymer latex has a recurring unit represented by the following general formula (I), the cyan coupler is represented by the following general formula (II) or (III), and the disperison is formed through a water-in-oil emulsion at least once when the hydrophobic polymer latex formed in the aqueous medium is mixed with a solution of the cyan coupler in a coupler solvent: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, Y.sub.1, Y.sub.2 and n are as defined above.

Abstract: A method of preparing a coupler dispersion in gelatin by separating the auxiliary coupler solvent using a hydrophilic membrane having a pure size less than 175 Angstroms.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon (i) at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer containing substantially silver iodide free silver halide with a silver chloride content of at least 90 Mol %, (ii) at least one coupler which forms a dye by means of a coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a primary aromatic amine developing agent, and (iii) at least one light-insensitive layer containing at least one oil soluble anti-color mixing agent which reacts with the oxidized product of the developing agent, said light-insensitive layer containing at least one oil soluble and substantially non-diffusible anti-color mixing promotor selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by general formula (I) or general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein A represents a divalent electron attractive group, R.sub.

Abstract: Silver halide photographic materials are disclosed, comprising a support carrying at elast one hydrophilic organic colloid layer in which at least one photographically useful reagent is dispersed with at least one of ethylenic addition polymerized polymer which contains at least 50% by weight of trifluorochloroethylene units.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material that has at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a phenolic cyan coupler of the general formula (I) and an amine of the general formula (II). The maximum absorption of the dye formed in sufficiently shifted to a longer wavelength range of the spectrum to achieve satisfactory color reproduction. The dye image produced has a high maximum density and improved keeping quality.

Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material suitably applicable to rapid processing with well-restrained fogging, color fading and degradation in the contrast is disclosed. The material comprises a reflective support and, provided thereon, at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer which contains (1) silver chloride or silver chlorobromide emulsion of which silver chloride content is not less than 90 mole % and said silver chloride or silver chlorobromide emulsion has been prepared by the addition of a heterocyclic mercapto compound or an azaindene compound during the period of formation of silver halide grains contained therein, (2) a dye-forming coupler and (3) a high-boiling organic solvent of which dielectric constant is not more than 6.

Abstract: The invention provides stable dispersions of couplers and methods of their formation. The stable dispersions are formed by the use of a nonionic water soluble polymer in combination with an anionic surfactant having a sulfate or sulfonate head group and a hydrophobic group of 8 to 20 carbons. The preferred nonionic water soluble polymers are polyethyleneoxide and polyvinylpyrrolidene.

Abstract: Aliphatic diesters of alkylenedicarboxylic acid compounds are water-immiscible high-boiling organic solvents useful for dispersing hydrophobic photographic additives in hydrophilic colloid compositioins which are incorporated into light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials.In particular, said aliphatic diesters of alkylenedicarboxylic acid compounds correspond to the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, R.sub.9 and R.sub.10, equal or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, with the proviso that at least one of R.sub.3, R.sub.5, R.sub.7 and R.sub.9 is an alkyl group or at least one pair of R.sub.4 and R.sub.6 or R.sub.8 and R.sub.10 are both alkyl groups and the total number of carbon atoms in R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 and the total number of carbon atoms in R.sub.7, R.sub.8, R.sub.9 and R.sub.10 is, each, less than 12, and m is 0 to 10.

Abstract: The invention is generally accomplished by utilization of a surfactant for very small particle photographic dispersions. Three types of such surfactants that have been identified are as follows:Type A--Surfactant comprising 6 to 22 carbon atom hydrophobic tail with one or more attached hydrophilic chains comprising at least 8 oxyethylene and/or glycedyl ether groups that may or may not be terminated with a negative charge such as a sulfate group.Type B--Block oligomeric surfactants comprising hydrophobic polyoxypropylene blocks (A) and hydrophilic polyoxyethylene blocks (B) joined in the manner of A-B-A, B-A-B, A-B, (A-B).sub.n .tbd.G.tbd.(B-A), or (B-A).sub.n .tbd.G.tbd.(A-B).sub.n, where G is a connective organic moiety and n is between 1 and 3.Type C--Sugar surfactants, comprising between one to three 6 to 22 carbon atom hydrophobic tail with one or more attached hydrophilic mono or oligosaccharidic chains that may or may not be terminated by a negatively charged group such as a sulfate group.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, where the red-sensitive halide emulsion layer contains a dispersion of oleophilic fine particles which is obtained by emulsifying or dispersing a solution containing at least one cyan coupler represented by the general formula (I) and at least one water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble homopolymer or copolymer, the green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one magenta coupler represented the general formula (II) or (III), the blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one yellow coupler represented by the general formula (IV), and the silver halide color photographic material contains at least one compound represented by the general formula (B): ##STR1## Moieties are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material which contains, on a support, a combination of at least one cyan dye-forming coupler represented by the following formula (I) and at least one compound selected from among those represented by the following formulae (II) and (III), whereby achieving enhancement of keeping quality of the developed cyan color dye: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.2 representing an alkyl group containing from 2 to 15 carbon atoms; Z represents a hydrogen atom, or a group or an atom capable of splitting off upon coupling with a developing agent; L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a divalent to a tetravalent aliphatic group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group; and n and m each represents an integer of from 2 to 4, and therein the n R.sub.3 's and m R.sub.4 's, respectively, may be the same or different, and when m represents 2, L.sub.

Abstract: The invention is accomplished by providing an aqueous dispersion of a photographic coupler by precipitation from a solvent solution by solvent and/or pH shift. A second aqueous dispersion of an activating permanent solvent for the photographic coupler is also provided. The dispersion of activating permanent solvent and photographic coupler are combined to form a combined dispersion which is mixed with a gelatin dispersion of silver halide particles to form a photographic emulsion suitable for casting as a photographic element. In a preferred method of the invention, the activating solvent is incorporated into a dispersion of latex particles prior to being combined with the dispersion of photographic coupler.

Abstract: A process for forming a color image is disclosed. In the process a photographic material which comprises a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a 2,5-diacylaminophenol-based cyan coupler at a ratio of over 50 mol % of the total cyan coupler is processed with a color developer containing a color developing agent represented by Formula I at a ratio of over 55 mol % of total developing agent in the color developer, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may link together to form a ring.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a silver halide emulsion layer containing (1) a pyrazoloazole magenta coupler, (2) an anti-color-fading agent having an oxidation potential (Eox) of 0.95(V)<Eox<1.50(V) and (3) a hydroquinone derivative.

Abstract: The present inventioin calls for a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer containing a dispersion of oleophilic fine particles containing at least one diffusion resistant oil-soluble coupler which forms a substantially nondiffusible dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and at least one water-immiscible coupler solvent having a melting point of not more than 100.degree. C. and a boiling point of not less than 140.degree. C.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photosensitive material is disclosed.The process step comprises developing a color photographic light-sensitive material composed of a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a silver halide containing at least 80 mol % silver chloride; at least one emulsion layer thereof containing a dispersion of a mixture of (i) at least one oil-soluble non-diffusible cyan coupler capable of forming a substantially non-diffusible cyan dye by coupling with the oxidized form of a developing agent, and (ii) a water-insoluble polymer;in a color developer solution comprising a primary amine color developing agent, and having a chloride ion concentration of from 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mol/l, and a bromide ion concentration of from 3.0.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.0.times.10.sup.-3 mol/l.