Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer provided on a support. The silver halide emulsion layer contains a selenium or tellurium compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## in which Ch is Se or Te; R.sup.1 is hydrogen, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, --OR.sup.11 or --NR.sup.12 R.sup.13 ; each of R.sup.11, R.sup.12 and R.sup.13 is hydrogen, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; and R.sup.2 is an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic photosensitive material wherein a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion which is comprised of tabular grains. The grains have an aspect ratio at least 2 account for at least 50% of the total number of silver halide grains. The emulsion layer or the layer adjacent thereto also contains a cyan coupler represented by formula (Ia): ##STR1## wherein the variables in the formula are defined in the specification.

Abstract: The invention describes silver halide packet emulsion grains or crystals that are conventionally precipitated using gelatin of a given isoelectric pH, surrounded by a layer of gelatin-grafted-polymer particles wherein the grafted gelatin has a different isoelectric pH and the said gelatin-grafted-polymer particles are optionally chemically bonded to the gelatin surrounding the silver halide microcrystals. Such packet emulsions can form the basis for a mixed-packet color photographic system.

Abstract: Surfactants useful as dispersing aids in the preparation of compositions comprising a hydrophilic colloid having hydrophobic particles dispersed therein have the structure ##STR1## wherein R is H or methyl provided that when each n=1, each R is methyl;M is a cation; and,n is an integer from 1 to 6.Such surfactants offer coating, photographic property and processing advantages when incorporated in photographic materials comprising a support bearing a plurality of hydrophilic colloid layers including at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer wherein at least one of the underlying hydrophilic colloid layers of the material contains hydrophobic particles dispersed therein with the aid of the surfactant.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for obtaining silver halide photographic emulsions containing grains of the core/shell type having {100} faces with cavities, and the corresponding photographic emulsions.These emulsions present an improved sensitivity.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer which comprises a hydrazine compound having at least one absorbent group to silver halide, wherein two nitrogen atoms of the hydrazine compound are substituted by four substituents and the carbon atoms in the four substituents bonded directly to the two nitrogen atoms are not substituted by an oxo group.

Abstract: A method of erasing images recorded in an image recording medium capable of recording images therein and erasing the same therefrom by application of heat thereto includes the step of applying heat to both a front image bearing side and a back side of the image recording medium for erasing images.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion which is greater than 50 mole % silver chloride, said emulsion being in reactive association with a sulfur donating compound, and a sulfinate compound represented by Formula (I)Z--SO.sub.2 M.sup.1 (I)wherein Z is a non-metallic aryl, alkyl or heterocyclic group, and M is a cationic counter ion;and wherein the sulfur donor is not a thiosulfonate or a diamino disulfide; and a method of making the emulsion.

Abstract: There is disclosed a flexible optical recording element comprising a flexible support having thereon, in order, an SbInSn phase-change alloy optical recording layer and an overcoat layer, the overcoat layer being a silicon oxide layer having an index of refraction greater than about 1.8 at about 800 nm wavelength and a thickness of about .lambda./4, where .lambda. is the wavelength at which the element is read. The element of the invention provides for an advantageous optical tape with a well adhered abrasion resistant overcoat which also provides for excellent corrosion resistance.

Abstract: The invention provides a multicolor negative photographic element which contains a layer containing a yellow or orange-yellow azoaniline dye of structure I ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is an alkyl group or a phenyl group;R.sub.2 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R.sub.3 is an alkoxy, aryloxy or alkyl group when R.sub.2 is hydrogen, or is hydrogen when R.sub.2 is an alkyl group;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 or R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 may join to form a ring;R.sub.4, which may be in the para or meta position relative to the azo group, is an electron-withdrawing group selected from the group consisting of trifluoromethyl, cyano, halogen, and from alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, carbonamido, sulfonamido, carbamoyl, sulfamoyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, sulfonyloxy (--OSO.sub.3 R), alkoxysulfonyl, aryloxysulfonyl, and sulfoxide groups;R.sub.5 is hydrogen or, can be a chlorine in the meta position when R.sub.4 is a chlorine in the para position; andthe total number of carbon atoms in R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.

Abstract: Direct-positive photographic elements are comprised of a support and a silver halide emulsion layer containing core-shell silver halide grains comprising a chemically sensitized core and a chemically sensitized shell, wherein at least one of the core and the shell comprises a band of dopant and wherein the dopant is hexacyano ruthenium (II). Preferably, the shell of the core-shell grains is chemically sensitized with both a gold-containing chemical sensitizing agent and a sulfur-containing chemical sensitizing agent and the weight ratio of the gold-containing chemical sensitizing agent to the sulfur-containing chemical sensitizing agent is at least about two to one.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer provided on a support. The silver halide emulsion layer contains a selenium compound represented by the formula (I), (IIa) or (IIb): ##STR1## in which each of R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 is hydrogen, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, --OR.sup.13 or --NR.sup.14 R.sup.15 ; each of R.sup.21 and R.sup.31 is an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, --OR.sup.23 or --NR.sup.24 R.sup.25 ; each of R.sup.22 and R.sup.32 is an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; each of R.sup.13, R.sup.14, R.sup.15, R.sup.23, R.sup.24 and R.sup.25 is hydrogen, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; and Ch is S, Se or Te.

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material including a photosensitive layer formed on a support, the photosensitive layer at least containing an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, either a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming agent, and a sensitizing dye of the following general formula (I): ##STR1## where r is hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl or substituted amino; r.sup.1 and r.sup.2 are each substituted or unsubstituted aryl or r.sup.1 and r.sup.2 are bonded to each other to form a condensed ring; r.sup.3, r.sup.4 and r.sup.5 are each hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl; X.sup.1 is oxygen, sulfur, carbon, nitrogen or selenium, wherein when X.sup.1 is carbon or nitrogen, then X.sup.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion contains tabular grains each having a silver iodide content of 5 to 20 mol %, and having an aspect ratio of 2 or more in an amount of 50% or more of a total projected area of all grains, wherein the relative standard deviation of the distribution of the silver iodide content between the grains, is 8% or less. A multiple color photographic light-sensitive material contains the above emulsion in its highest-speed blue-sensitive layer. The method of preparing the emulsion includes a step of growing a silver iodide containing-area having a silver iodide content of 6 to 30 mol % in an amount of 50% or more of all silver amount under a condition of pBr of 0 to 3.0 by means of double jet method using an aqueous silver salt solution containing 1.0 to 10.0 mol/l of silver salt and an aqueous halide solution containing 0.01 to 0.1 mol/l of iodide.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion, a method of preparing the same, and a light-sensitive material containing this emulsion, wherein silver halide grains are formed while rapidly producing iodide ions from an iodide ion-releasing agent represented by Formula (I) below:R--I Formula (I)wherein R represents a monovalent organic residue which releases the iodine atom in the form of iodide ion upon reacting with a base and/or a nucleophilic reagent.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains which are formed while iodide ions are rapidly being generated from an iodide ion-releasing agent represented by Formula (I) below, and which are chemically sensitized with a selenium sensitizer. Formula (I)R--Iwhere R represents a monovalent organic residue which releases the iodine atom in the form of iodide ions upon reacting with a base and/or a nucleophilic reagent.

Abstract: Improved sensitivity and reduced minimum density are provided by an emulsion in which high bromide tabular grains exhibit an average thickness of less than 0.07 .mu.m and have latent image forming reduction chemical sensitization sites and adsorbed spectral sensitizing dye on their surfaces. The tabular grains contain a dopant capable of forming shallow electron trapping sites, and the spectral sensitizing dye exhibits an oxidation potential more positive than 1.2 volts. A photographic element is disclosed which locates the emulsion in a layer overlying a minus blue recording emulsion layer. Exceptionally sharp images are formed in the minus blue recording emulsion layer when in the overlying emulsion layer greater than 97 percent of the total projected area of the silver halide grains having an equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.2 .mu.m is accounted for by tabular grains having an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.7 .mu.m.

Abstract: A photographic materials with a high silver chloride red sensitive layer which has a high sensitivity and exhibits reduced thermal sensitivity. In particular the material has a silver halide emulsion of at least 90% silver chloride and compounds of formula I and II below: ##STR1## Where A, Z, X1, X2, R1, R2, W1-W12, D, G1, G2, Y1, Y2 are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a silver halide light-sensitive material capable of forming a ultra high gradation image by processing in a stable developing solution.The present invention is a silver halide photographic material containing at least one of the compounds represented by Formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein X represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group and may be substituted; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, or an amino group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group and may be the same or different; and further R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may be substituted and combined with each other to form a ring; ##STR2## wherein X represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group and may be substituted; Y represents a --O-- group, a --NR.sub.3 -- group, a --S-- group, a --SO-- group, a --SO.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a yellow coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer, wherein each silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not lower than 90 mol %, a yellow coupler in said yellow coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer is coated in an amount of at least 1.1 mmol/m.sup.2, oil/coupler ratio by weight in the yellow coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer is 0.32 or less and the magenta coupler-containing layer contains at least one magenta coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.