Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide material composed of a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one layer of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or an adjacent layer thereof containing an oil droplet dispersion in a hydrophilic binder, the oil droplets containing the combination of (a) a polymer insoluble in water and soluble in an organic solvent; (b) a high boiling point organic solvent having a viscosity at 25.degree. C. of at least 500 cp and a boiling point of at least 120.degree. C.; and (c) at least one coupler capable of forming a non-diffusible cyan dye by a coupling reaction with an oxidized form of a primary aromatic amine developing agent.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described containing in its outermost layer a high molecular weight matting agent formed from at least one kind of alkali insoluble synthetic polymer grains having a glass transition point of at least 60.degree. C. and an average grain size of from 0.2 to 10, and said polymer is represented by the formula (I):--A).sub.x (B).sub.y (C).sub.z (I)wherein A represents a divalent group derived from at least one monomer having the formula (II); B represents a divalent group derived from at least one monomer having the formula (III), whose homopolymer has a glass transition point of at least 50.degree. C.; C represents a divalent group derived from an ethylenic unsaturated monomer other than A or B which is capable of copolymerizing with the monomers forming both A and B; x represents the fractional content of group A, which ranges from 0.005 to 0.20 mol/mol of polymer of formula (I); y represents the fractional content of group B, which ranges from 0.50 to 0.

Abstract: A photographic silver halide light-sensitive material having at least one hydrophilic colloid layer containing gelatin and/or a gelatin derivative hardened with a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein a and d each represents 1 or 2; b and c each represents 0, 1 or 2 with the proviso that both b and c are not simultaneously 0; R represents a divalent group; and n is 0 or 1, which compound provides a preferred hardening rate and does not adversely affect the photographic properties of photographic light-sensitive materials, and a method of hardening gelatin and/or a gelatin derivative comprising treating the gelatin and/or the gelatin derivative with a compound represented by the general formula (I) above.

Abstract: A photographic silver halide light-sensitive material having at least one hydrophilic colloid layer containing (a) gelatin and/or a gelatin derivative and (b) at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein Y represents a vinyl group; A represents a divalent group; R, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and n is 0 or 1. The compounds of the general formulas (I) and (II) are novel class of gelatin hardeners which are particularly suitable for use in silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials.

Abstract: A hardening agent for gelatin comprising a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents an n-valent organic group, Z represents an atomic group necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered ring and n represents 1, 2 or 3; and a method for hardening gelatin comprising treating gelatin with a compound represented by the formula (I) above.

Abstract: A process for stabilizing a color developing solution which comprises adding one or more hydroxamic acid compounds represented by the following formula to the color developing solution: ##STR1## wherein X represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, an amino group, an alkylamino group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an arylamino group.

Abstract: A method of hardening gelatin which comprises adding thereto a compound of the following general formula (I): ##STR1## in which Y.sub.1 is CH.sub.2 =CH--, ClCH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, BrCH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, CH.sub.3 COO--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 -- or ClCH.sub.2 COO--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are H or CH.sub.3, but both of them are not CH.sub.3 at the same time, and A is one of the following groups: ##STR2## in which both R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 were acyl groups or at least one of them is an acyl group other than when R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 form a benzotriazole ring, and when one of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is an acyl group, the other is H or an alkyl group containing at most 4 carbon atoms; and wherein in any case, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may form a saturated or unsaturated carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring in combination with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached; R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.