Abstract: an internal latent image type silver halide photographic emulsion which provides a direct positive image by surface development in the presence of a fogging agent and which is useful in a light-sensitive material for the diffusion transfer process, which emulsion is spectrally sensitized with a supersensitizing combination of at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula (I) or (II) ##STR1## wherein Z.sub.1 represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group; ##STR2## wherein Z.sub.2 represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring; R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.4 represents an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group; R.sub.18 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkylene group necessary to complete a ring when R.sub.4 and R.sub.