Abstract: A novel color stain inhibitor is disclosed, which is a compound comprising a phenol or naphthol ring substituted by at least one substituted or unsubstituted sulfamoyl group. Preferred examples of these compounds are represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and Q are as defined herein. In light-sensitive materials containing the color stain inhibitors of the present invention, color stain is efficiently prevented.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a coupler having at least one of a sulfamoylphenylenesulfonyl group, a sulfamoylaminophenylenesulfonyl group and a sulfonamidophenylenesulfonyl group as a substituent. Preferred couplers are represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein all moieties are defined in the specification wherein Cp is a coupler residue, L is a divalent linking group and X represents --NHSO.sub.2 --, ##STR2## or --SO.sub.2 NH, and n represents 0-4. Groups R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers positioned thereon. The material includes at least one silver halide emulsion layer having a particular sensitivity and color sensitivity, and a second silver halide emulsion layer having the same color sensitivity but having a greater sensitivity with respect to light, the second layer including a silver halide having a silver iodide content in the range of 9% by mol to 15% by mol. The material includes a DIR compound in a layer other than the second silver halide emulsion layer. The DIR compound releases a diffusible development inhibitor or precursor thereof by a coupling reaction. The resulting material has greatly improved granularity and sharpness.

Abstract: A color photographic silver halide light-sensitive material is described, comprising a support base having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer wherein said material contains at least one coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A represents a yellow coupler residue, a magenta coupler residue, or a cyan coupler residue; R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted acyclic or cyclic alkylene group; R.sub.2 represents a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted acylamino group, a substituted or unsubstituted sulfonamido group or a substituted or unsubstituted acyl group; and n represents an integer of 0 to 3.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material has improved sensitivity and granularity as well as an increased gradient. Further, the material can be processed by rapid processing methods. The material is comprised of a support having positioned thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a compound represented by the general formula (I):A-B (I)wherein A is residue of a compound capable of undergoing a coupling reaction with an oxidized primary amine developer, the residue being derived by eliminating a hydrogen atom from an active position of the compound. B is a group capable of being released through a coupling reaction to exert a fogging effect.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bleach-fixing solution for light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, comprising a diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid iron (III) complex salt and having a pH value of 4.0 or higher. Also disclosed is a method for processing a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, which comprises processing a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material containing a cyan coupler by the use of the above bleach-fixing solution.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming oleophilic polymer coupler. The polymer coupler is comprised of three repeating units including a repeating unit of a cyan coupler corresponding to general formula (I), an ethylene type unsaturated monomer repeating unit corresponding to general formula (II) which contains an acid component and an ethylene type unsaturated monomer repeating unit corresponding to general formula (III). The cyan dye-forming oleophilic polymer coupler is present in the form of a dispersed product, said polymer coupler having been dissolved in an organic solvent followed by emulsion dispersion of a gelatine aqueous solution in the presence of a surfactant. The general formulae and their substituents are described in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material. A support has thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer and a non-light-sensitive layer adjacent to the silver halide emulsion layer. The silver halide emulsion layer contains a cyan coupler having Formula (I) and a compound having Formula (II). The non-light-sensitive layer contains a compound having Formula (II) ##STR1## wherein X is a hydrogen atom or a group which can be split off by the coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; R.sub.1 is an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and R.sub.2 is a ballasting group necessary to cause the cyan coupler having the Formula (I) and the cyan dye formed from the cyan coupler to be nondiffusible ##STR2## wherein R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or a cycloalkyl group each having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having from 6 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having provided thereon a fine grain silver halide emulsion layer and, positioned adjacent to the fine grain silver halide emulsion layer, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler. The coupler is a phenolic cyan coupler substituted at the 5-position with an acylamino group and at the 2-position with an ureido group. The material has high sensitivity and good granularity. The material produces an image which has excellent fastness to light and heat.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is described containing in combination at least one sensitizing dye represented by formula (I) and at least one cyan coupler represented by formula (II): ##STR1## wherein all the symbols are defined in the specification. In a preferred embodiment, in addition to the sensitizing dye (I) and the cyan coupler (II), there may also be included at least one compound represented by formula (III) ##STR2## wherein all the symbols are also defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. Their material is comprised of a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex. This latex is comprised of a recurring unit of a cyan coupler monomer capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent represented by the general formula (I) and a recurring unit of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an acid component represented by the general formula (II) and a recurring unit of methyl acrylate. ##STR1## The cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex has excellent color forming properties and photographic material containing the coupler latex provides a cyan image having good fastness to heat and the combination of heat and humidity. A method for forming a color image utilizing the disclosed photographic material containing the novel couple of latex is also disclosed.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer is described, the color photographic light-sensitive material containing a coupler having at the coupling position thereof a group represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Z represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a cyano group, a nitro group, a hydroxy group, a carboxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkylsulfonamido group, an arylsulfonamido group, an alkylsulfamoyl group, an arylsulfamoyl group, an acylamino group, an amino group, an alkylcarbamoyl group, an arylcarbamoyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an alkylcarbonyl group or an arylcarbonyl group; X.sub.

Abstract: A dye-forming photothermographic element comprises in a binder, in reactive association,(a) photographic silver halide,(b) an image forming combination comprising(i) a reducible organic silver salt with(ii) a reducing agent selected from the group consisting of p-phenylenediamine, p-aminophenol, sulfonamidophenol, sulfonamidoaniline and hydrazone developing agents, and(c) a coupler which is capable of forming an image dye by reaction with the oxidized form of the reducing agent.In such a photothermographic element improvements are provided wherein the coupler has attached to the carbon atom at the coupling position either (A) a group --S--Dye, wherein Dye represents an image dye, or a blocked or shifted form thereof, and any necessary linking group, or (B) a moiety --S--Z, wherein Z represents atoms linking the sulfur atom to another position in the coupler. The exposed dye-forming photothermographic element is capable of forming a dye image by merely heating the element.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing at least one coupler having a ballast group represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic ring, and m represents an integer of 1 or 2.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material in which both a coupler capable of releasing a diffusible development restrainer by coupling and a polymer coupler latex are present to increase visual sharpness.

Abstract: A color photographic silver halide light-sensitive material is described. The material includes a cyan coupler represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## (the symbols are as described in the claims). This coupler is easily soluble in high boiling organic solvents, exhibits a high dye-forming rate in developers, and furthermore, provides color images of high fastness.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprised of a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex is disclosed. The cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex is comprised of at least one repeating unit capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent represented by the general formula (Ia) and at least one repeating unit represented by the general formula (II): ##STR1## the substituents within the general formulae are disclosed within the specification. The cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex has excellent color forming properties and the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which contains the latex provides a photograph in which the occurrence of color stain due to light is substantially prevented. A method of forming a color image using the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is also described.

Abstract: In a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer. The granularity of the material is improved by incorporating a non-diffusible coupler capable of forming a properly smearing diffusible dye by causing a reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent and a colorless competing compound capable of capturing the oxidation product of a color developing agent in at least one of the foregoing silver halide emulsion layers.

Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material containing a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein G, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and X have the same meanings as defined in the specification.The 1-naphthol coupler which is contained in the light-sensitive silver halide photographic material is high in reactivity with an oxidized product of a color forming developing agent and can efficiently impart imagewise photographic effects to light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials.

Abstract: Silver halide photographic material having at least one light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one non-light sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer, and optionally a third type of layer, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers, colloid layers, or third type of layers has, in a single layer, both a magenta coupler of Formula I and a development inhibitor releasing compound having a development inhibitor radical of Formula II or III, said Formula is wherein R.sub.1 is selected from benzamido, anilino, and phenylureido, each having a sulfonamido group and R.sub.2 is selected from aryl and heterocyclic groups; said Formula II is ##STR1## wherein R.sub.3 is selected from hydrogen, halogen, acylamino, alkyl, benzothiazolinylidenamino and phenyl substituted alkoxy; said Formula III is ##STR2## wherein X is a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to complete, together with the C.dbd.N group, a five or six membered heterocyclic ring.

Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, comprising a group of silver halide emulsion layers constituting the same color sensitive layer, said group of emulsion layers consisting of at least two silver halide emulsion layers with different light sensitivities, the layer with the highest sensitivity incorporating at least one kind of a compound having a non-diffusion type coupler component and a scavenger component for an oxidized product of a color forming developing agent in an amount of 1 to 5 mole % per mole of the silver halide in the layer containing said compound.The light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material according to the present invention has high sensitivity and can provide high image quality with a broad latitude.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is described comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler having, at the coupling active position, a group which provides a compound having a development inhibiting property when the group is released from the coupling device position of the coupler upon the color development reaction and which is decomposed to a compound which does not substantially influence the photographic properties when the compound diffuses into a color developing solution.The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a novel class of development inhibitor releasing couplers provides color images of good sharpness and improved color reproduction without causing contamination of the processing solution.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the color photographic light-sensitive material containing a cyan dye forming coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a heterocyclic group; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon an oxidative coupling reaction with a developing agent; R.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material which is improved in granularity by containing both a gallic acid amide derivative represented by the following general formula (I) and a high speed reaction type coupler: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or an unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or an unsubstituted aromatic group, or a substituted or an unsubstituted heterocyclic group, and they may be the same group provided that they are not simultaneously hydrogen atoms, and, further, they may combine with each other to form a ring.

Abstract: A coupler containing in the coupling position a carbamoyloxy group ##STR1## upon oxidative coupling, releases a carbamic acid fragment that, in turn, is capable of thermally releasing ammonia or an amine. Such a carbamoyloxy substituted coupler and carbamic acid fragment are useful in imaging such as in photothermography and thermography. Ammonia or an amine released from the carbamic acid fragment enables imaging in imaging materials that are responsive to ammonia or an amine. The carbamoyloxy substituted coupler also generally is a dye-forming coupler that reacts with the oxidized form of a color developing agent to form a dye. An image is produced in an exposed photothermographic material comprising the carbamoyloxy substituted coupler by thermal development. An image is produced in a thermographic material comprising the carbamoyloxy substituted coupler and a color developing agent by imagewise heating the thermographic material.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photosensitive material for color photography which comprises a phenol type cyan coupler having the formula: ##STR1## wherein the substituents X.sup.1, X.sup.2, Y, Z and n are as defined in the specification and claim of this application.The cyan coupler mentioned above is a novel cyan dye image-forming coupler and the photosensitive material containing the same according to the present invention has removed the various drawbacks in the prior art.

Abstract: There are disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one kind of cyan dye forming couplers represented by the formula [I] or the formula [II] as defined in the specification provided on a reflective support, and a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material further having a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one kind of magenta couplers represented by the formula [III] as defined in the specification.The light-sensitive silver halide color photographic materials according to this invention have excellent color forming characteristics and form very fast dyes to heat, light and humidity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the type comprising a ballasting group which renders said compounds substantially fast to diffusion in hydrophilic colloid media and at least one photographically useful group which is chemically linked to said ballasting group, and to photographic elements containing at least one compound of the type referred to.The ballasting groups in the compounds according to the present invention are derived from mono- or di-esters or -ethers of glycerol. The linkage between ballasting group and photographically useful group can be realized via acid chlorides which are derived from the above-said glycerol derivatives.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, characterized in that said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a cyan coupler represented by formula [I] shown below, and said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and/or a layer contiguous to said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a colored cyan coupler represented by the formula [II]: ##STR1## wherein X, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined in the specification; ##STR2## wherein (Coup--).sub.c, L, Q.sub.1, Q.sub.2, M, j, and G are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A color photographic material comprising on a support a first silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, a second silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler, a third silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, said third emulsion layer being positioned farthest from the support, a first non-light-sensitive layer formed on one side of said third emulsion layer opposite to the support, and a second non-light-sensitive layer formed on the other side of said third emulsion layer, at least said first non-light sensitive layer containing a UV absorber.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing particles of a coupler solution, comprising a cyan dye forming coupler represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A represents a cyan coupler residue, but the --NHCO-- group does not bond to A in the active position of A; R.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group; and n represents an integer of 1 to 3, and when n is 2 or more R.sup.3 may be the same or different, and a coupler solvent having a dielectric constant of 2.5 to 5. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material provides a color image having good fastness to heat and light as well as excellent color reproducibility.

Abstract: A silver halide color, photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex which is capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is a polymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydroden atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; A.sub.1 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group which may be a straight chain or a branched chain; A.sub.2 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group which may be a straight chain or a branched chain, an unsubstituted or substituted aralkylene group or an unsubstituted or substituted phenylene group; B.

Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye forming coupler represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.4 represents a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group; R.sup.5 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted acylamino group; R.sup.6 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a mono-valent organic residue; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon coupling and exhibiting a two-equivalent property; and n represents an integer from 1 to 5 and when n represents 2 or more, R.sup.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photosensitive material for color photography which comprises a phenol type cyan coupler having the formula: ##STR1## wherein the substituents X.sup.1, X.sup.2, Y, Z and n are as defined in the specification and claim of this application.The cyan coupler mentioned above is a novel cyan dye image-forming coupler and the photosensitive material containing the same according to the present invention has removed the various drawbacks in the prior art.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a phenol cyan coupler having an ureido group in the 2-position dispersed in a phthalic ester.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-silver silver halide color photographic material, having a blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green sensitive silver halide emulsion and a red sensitive silver halide emulsion on a support; which comprises said red sensitive silver halide emulsion containing at least one kind of the compounds represented by the formula [I] shown below, and further the content of the silver halide contained in all of the aforesaid light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers being 7.5 g/m.sup.2 or more as calculated on silver, and the content of the silver halide contained in said red sensitive silver halide emulsion being 3.5 g/m.sup.2 or more as calculated on silver: ##STR1## wherein, X, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a layer containing at least one copolymer coupler latex having a layered structure capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent. The polymer coupler latex having a layered structure has an exceptionally good color forming property and is capable of forming a dye with a high yield and without the formation of undesired stains and fogs. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing the polymer coupler latex has good film strength and a reduced layer thickness and provides a color image having an improved sharpness. A method of forming a color image using the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for forming a silver halide color photographic image comprising forming a dye image in the presence of a phenol cyan coupler. The phenol cyan coupler has the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl, an aryl or a heterocyclic group; X is selected from the group consisting of an alkyl, acyloxy, acylamino, succinimide, and sulfoneamide moiety; Z is a hydrogen atom or a group capable of eliminating itself from the coupler during the coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agent; and n is an integer from 1 to 3, and when n is 2 or 3, X may be the same or different.

Abstract: Photographic couplers comprising a coupler moiety and a ballast moiety have advantageous properties when the ballast moiety is terminated with a hydroxyphenylsulfonyl or hydroxyphenylsulfinyl group. The couplers are useful in photographic emulsions and element.

Abstract: There is disclosed a novel silver halide photosensitive color photographic material comprising a coupler which consists of a coupling component (A) which is capable of causing a coupling reaction with an oxidized color developing agent and a substituent component bonded at the coupling position of said coupling component (A), which substituent component is capable of being split off on coupling reaction, the improvement characterized in that said substituent comprises a coupling component (B) which can undergo coupling reaction with an oxidized color developing agent when released from said coupling component (A) and a photographically useful component which is capable of being released on coupling reaction of said coupling component (B).The color photographic material according to the present invention provides graininess, sharpness and color reproducibility which is sufficiently competent to the requirement of further miniturization of film size by use of a coupler having novel functions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, characterized in that said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a cyan coupler represented by the formula [I] shown below, and said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and/or a layer contiguous to said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of a timing DIR compound represented by the formula [II] shown below and a non-timing type DIR compound: ##STR1## wherein X, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined in the specification; ##STR2## wherein Cp, TIME and Z are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: The invention relates to silver halide photographic materials comprising a support and a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing as a cyan-dye-forming coupler a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a halogen atom, an alkyl, alkoxy or acylamino group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are individually a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or aryl group and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may form a heterocyclic group by the condensation thereof; n is an integer of 0-3; R.sub.4 is an alkyl, aryl, acyl or heterocyclic group; R.sub.5 is an alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, amino, acylamino, sulfonamide, carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl, carbamoyl, cyano or halogenated alkyl group; and R.sub.6 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, alkoxy, carboxy, carbamoyl, hydroxy, acyloxy, nitro, amino, azo, acylamino, sulfonamide or acyl group.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a substrate having a silver halide emulsion layer position thereon and a cyan dye forming coupler. The coupler is reresented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a substituted or nonsubstituted alkyl group, aryl group or heterocyclic group, X represents a group capable of releasing by an oxidative coupling reaction with a developing agent, and R.sup.1 represents a substituted or nonsubstituted alkyl group or aryl group. The coupler of the invention can be easily dissolved in a high boiling point organic solvent and makes possible production of a light sensitive material having a high dye forming rate, high maximum color density and good fastness to light. Furthermore, the couplers prevent a large decrease in density when the bleaching solution utilized has a weak oxidation ability.

Abstract: In a dye-forming imaging material comprising (a) a dye-forming coupler, and (b) an organic reducing agent that is capable in its oxidized form of reacting with the dye-forming coupler to form a dye, improvements are provided by a reducing agent that is a ureidoaniline silver halide developing agent free of strong electron withdrawing groups. Such an imaging material can be a photographic silver halide material. The imaging material can be a photothermographic material for producing a dye image comprising, in reactive association, (a) photographic silver halide, (b) a dye-forming coupler, and (c) an oxidation-reduction image forming combination comprising (1) an organic silver salt oxidizing agent, and (2) an organic reducing agent for the organic silver salt oxidizing agent, wherein the reducing agent is a ureidoaniline which is capable in its oxidized form of reacting with the dye-forming coupler to form a dye.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which comprises at least one of those pyrazole compounds represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein A is a group which can be eliminated in a photographic process condition; X is ##STR2## wherein R.sub.5 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, an aryl, an acyl or a sulfone group, which R.sub.5 group may combine together with R.sub.1 to form a condensed ring; R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, an aryl, an acyl, a sulfone, an alkoxy, or a heterocyclic residue; R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, an aryl, an alkoxy, an amino, an acid amide, a sulfonamide, a carboxyl, an alkoxycarbonyl, a carbamoyl, a cyano, or a halogenated alkyl group, R.sub.3 and R.sub.

Abstract: Granularity of silver halide photographic materials is reduced by employing a coupler which yields a dye of such mobility that controlled image smearing occurs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process of dispersing oil-soluble photographic additives having a silver-halide base for information recording materials.According to the invention, compounds of the following general formula: ##STR1## are used as auxiliary dispersing agents. The symbolsR represents hydrogen, alkyl with 1 to 8 C atoms,M represents hydrogen, alkali metal, ammonium, andX represents OR or SO.sub.3 M.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material containing a coupler capable of releasing a photographically useful group in a controllable timing.

Abstract: Couplers of good reactivity contain an aryloxy coupling-off group having in an ortho position a polarizable carbonyl, sulfonyl or phosphinyl substituent group which is free of photographic dye groups and photographic reagent groups.

Abstract: A color photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a DIR compound having an amino group and a DIR compound having no amino group.