Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having coated thereon at least one blue-sensitive layer containing a yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive layer containing a magenta coupler and at least one red-sensitive layer containing a cyan coupler, wherein on each of the characteristic curves of yellow, magenta and cyan of the silver halide photographic material, 1) the maximum density is not less than 3.0 and the density obtained by subtracting the density of the support from the minimum density is not more than 0.1, 2) the average value of point gamma at various points in the exposure region corresponding to a density value of from not less than 0.5 to less than 1.5 is from not less than 0.85 to not more than 1.15 and the fluctuation width thereof is within .+-.15% of the average value of point gamma in the exposure region, and 3) the average value of point gamma at various points in the exposure region corresponding to a density value of from not less than 1.5 to that 0.

Abstract: A chemically and spectrally sensitized ultrathin tabular grain emulsion is disclosed including tabular grains (a) having {111} major faces, (b) containing greater than 70 mole percent bromide, based on silver, (c) accounting for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area, (d) exhibiting an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.7 .mu.m, and (e) exhibiting an average thickness of less than 0.07 .mu.m.Improved sensitivity is observed when the surface chemical sensitization sites include silver halide protrusions of a face centered cubic crystal lattice structure forming epitaxial junctions with the tabular grains and having a higher overall solubility than at least that portion of the tabular grains forming epitaxial junctions with the protrusions and a sensitivity enhancing combination of dopants are contained in the silver halide grains including a first sensitivity enhancing dopant capable of providing shallow electron trapping sites and a second sensitivity enhancing selenium dopant.

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 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: The present invention provides a method for obtaining a photographic material by coating on a support at least one layer comprising at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion wherein the silver halide crystals contain silver chloride for at least 60 mole %, silver bromide in a range from 5 mole % to 40 mole % and silver iodide in a range from 0 mole % to 1 mole %, characterized in that a water soluble iridium compound is added between the end of the physical ripening and the end of the chemical ripening to said silver halide emulsion at a pH between 4 and 6.5, at a pCl between -0.3 and 1 and at a ratio by weight of gelatin to silver halide, expressed as equivalent amount of silver nitrate between 0.05 and 0.5.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a support and a light-sensitive layer provided thereon. The light-sensitive layer contains silver halide grains dispersed in gelatin. A hexa-coordinated cyano-complex is doped in the silver halide grains. The amount of the complex is in the range of 1.times.10.sup.-7 to 5.times.10.sup.-3 mol based on 1 mol of silver halide. A localized phase of the complex is present on the surface of the grains. The localized phase contains the complex in an amount of 1.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.times.10.sup.-1 mol based on 1 mol of silver halide. According to the present invention, the silver halide grains are doped in the presence of a compound having a function of inhibiting a reaction of the cyano-complex with gelatin, or the compound having the function is added to the grains after the grains are doped.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which comprises a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer formed on the support. The emulsion layer contains at least one silver halide emulsion which is a tellurium-sensitized monodispersed emulsion.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material. The photographic material comprises a support having thereon at least a silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, which grains have a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more and are subjected to selenium, tellurium or gold sensitization, wherein the photographic material further contains a specific dye, and wherein the photographic material preferably has the pH value of the coated film of no more than 6.5.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic emulsion comprising comprising silver halide grains, an iridium containing hexacoordination complex, and at least two grain surface modifiers, wherein the first of the grain surface modifiers is a transition metal complex comprising a nitrosyl or thionitrosyl ligand with a transition metal selected from the Groups 5 to 10, inclusive, of the periodic table, and the second of the grain surface modifiers is a transition metal complex comprising a transition metal, other than iridium, which is selected from Groups 7 to 10, inclusive, of the periodic table.

Abstract: The invention is generally accomplished by providing a method of finishing an emulsion comprising providing silver halide grains, adding to said emulsion in an amount between about 0.005 mmol/per mole of silver and 0.10 mmol/per mole of silver of the compound ##STR1## X=O, S, Se; R.sub.1 =alkyl or substituted alkyl or aryl or substituted aryl;Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 individually represent hydrogen, alkyl groups or an aromatic nucleus or together represent the atoms necessary to complete a cyclic structure containing carbon, oxygen, selenium, or nitrogen atoms necessary to complete a fused aromatic nucleus or an alicyclic structure. The invention also provides a photographic element comprising the silver halide emulsion. In a preferred embodiment, the R.sub.1 substituent is methyl or phenyl.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising:(a) a support,(b) at least three silver halide photosensitive emulsion layers on said support, where(i) each of said at least three photosensitive layers has spectral sensitivity peaks in three different light wavelength regions of not smaller than 650 nm, and(ii) said the photosensitive layer contains a cyan coupler, the other photosensitive layer contains a magenta coupler and the another photosensitive layer contains a yellow coupler, and(c) silver halide of said at least three photosensitive emulsion layers comprises silver chloride or silver chlorobromide containing at least 96 mol% silver chloride, where grains of silver halide of at least one of said three layers further contain from 0.01 to 3 mol% of silver iodide (based on the amount of silver halide in the emulsion) on the grain surface or sub-surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of sensitizing (111) high chloride tabular grains having {111} major faces comprising providing the high chloride tabular grains, and sensitizing using temperatures greater than 70.degree. C.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon one or more hydrophilic colloid layers, at least one of the hydrophilic colloid layers being a silver halide emulsion layer comprising silver halide grains with a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %, wherein at least one hydrophilic colloid layer contains at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by formulae (I), (II) and (III); and at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by formulae (A), (B) and (C): ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the claims. The silver halide photographic material can be handled in an environment which can essentially be referred to as bright room.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic emulsion silver halide grains having incorporated therein or thereon a dopant, a grain surface modifier, and a hexacoordination complex comprising iridium, wherein the dopant is a transition metal complex comprising a nitrosyl or thionitrosyl ligand with a transition metal selected from the Groups 5 to 10 of the periodic table, and the grain surface modifier is a transition metal complex comprising a transition metal, other than iridium, which is selected from Groups 7 to 10 of the periodic table.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support and a silver halide emulsion layer provided thereon. The silver halide emulsion is prepared by nuclear formation, crystal growth and chemical sensitization. All or a part of the nuclear formation or the crystal growth is conducted in the presence of a hexa-coordinated cyano-complex to introduce the complex into crystal lattice of the silver halide. The density of the hexa-coordinated cyano-complex contained in surface parts of silver halide grains is in the range of 10.sup.-4 to 10.sup.-2 mol per 1 mol of silver. The surface parts of silver halide grains has a thickness of not more than 20.ANG. from the surfaces of the grains. The chemical sensitization is conducted using a gold sensitizer. The silver halide emulsion is prepared using a synthetic polymer as a protective colloid in place of gelatin. In the cases in which gelatin is used, it is present in an amount of not more than 10 g per 1 mol of silver.

Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support having located thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the emulsion layer containing a development accelerator and a release compound that provides a non-imagewise distribution of a development inhibitor moiety. The release compound is characterized in that it comprises a blocking group from which the development inhibitor moiety is released.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic emulsion silver halide grains having incorporated therein or thereon a dopant, a grain surface modifier, and a hexacoordination complex comprising iridium, wherein the grain surface modifier is a transition metal complex comprising a nitrosyl or thionitrosyl ligand with a transition metal selected from the Groups 5 to 10, inclusive, of the periodic table, and the dopant is a transition metal complex comprising a transition metal, other than iridium, which is selected from Groups 7 to 10 of the periodic table.

Abstract: A photographic silver halide emulsion is disclosed comprised of radiation sensitive composite silver halide grains including host grain portions accounting for at least 50 percent of total silver and surface portions epitaxially deposited on the host grain portions. The epitaxially deposited surface portions on the host grain portions exhibit a face centered cubic crystal lattice structure containing a hexacoordination complex of a metal from periods 4, 5 and 6 of groups 3 to 14 inclusive of the periodic table of elements in which one or more organic ligands each containing at least one carbon-to-carbon bond, at least one carbon-to-hydrogen bond or at least one carbon-to-nitrogen-to-hydrogen bond sequence occupy up to half the metal coordination sites in the coordination complex and at least half of the metal coordination sites in the coordination complex are provided by halogen or pseudohalogen ligands.

Abstract: A silver halide material for colour photography, comprising a support, at least one blue-sensitive yellow-coupling silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive, magenta-coupling silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one red-sensitive, cyan-coupling silver halide emulsion layer applied to the support and conventional intermediate and protective layers, the emulsion in at least one of the silver halide layers comprising not less than 80 mol-% AgCl and not more than 0.5 mol-% AgI, and the last-mentioned silver halide emulsion is doped with at least one compound of a metal in the groups (a) and (b), where (a) comprises rhodium, iridium, osmium, ruthenium, rhenium and cadmium and (b) comprises gold and platinum. The material has very good development kinetics.

Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support having located thereon a first layer which does not contain colloidal silver and a second layer, the first layer containing a release compound that comprises a development inhibitor moiety and a blocking group from which the development inhibitor moiety is non-imagewise released, and the second layer containing a development accelerator.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one layer made of a silver halide emulsion comprising a dispersion medium and silver halide grains dispersed in the dispersion medium. Each of the silver halide grains contains a metal or metal ions other than silver. The emulsion has been chemically sensitized in the presence of a tellurium compound which has a pseudo-first order reaction rate constant k of 1.times.10.sup.-8 to 1.times.10.sup.-0 min.sup.-1. The metal is at least one polyvalent metal selected from the group consisting of Ir, Rh, Pd, Ru, Pt, Os, Fe, Ni and Co. The metal ions are ammonium salt, acetate, nitrate, sulfate, phosphate, hydroxide, or complex salt of the metal. Telluroketones or phosphinetellurides is used as the tellurium compound. It is desirable that the silver halide emulsion is a monodispersed emulsion having a variation coefficient of 22% or less.

Abstract: A process is disclosed of preparing a radiation sensitive silver halide emulsion comprising reacting silver and halide ions in a dispersing medium in the presence of a metal hexacoordination or tetracoordination complex having at least one organic ligand and at least half of the metal coordination sites occupied by halide or pseudohalide ligands. The metal forming the complex is chosen from periods 4, 5 and 6 and groups 3 to 14 inclusive of the periodic table of elements. The incorporation of the transition metal ion dopant and at least one organic ligand into the cubic crystal lattice of the silver halide grains can be used to improve photographic performance.

Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive photographic material for applications in the field of mammography is disclosed which has an improved diagnostic value by an enhanced sharpness. The silver halide crystals to be used in the said material show a fog level, a toe contrast and an overall contrast that is, like the image quality, substantially uneffected by the processing conditions. The coating amount of silver halide crystals in the emulsion layer can be reduced to such an amount that an archivability of from 10 to 20 years can be assured in normal storage conditions. The X-ray material is suitable for rapid processing, without loss in sensitivity, within processing cycles of 45 or 38 seconds, wherein hardener-free processing solutions can be used.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive silver halide material is disclosed comprising a support and one or more hydrophylic colloid layers including at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer characterized in that in said emulsion layer is a gold and sulphur sensitized silver bromide or silver bromoiodide emulsion having cubic crystal habit and in that said emulsion and/or a hydrophylic colloid layer in water-permeable relationship therewith comprises a 3-pyrazolidinone compound.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material and a method for forming a color image using said photographic material. The silver halide color photographic material comprises photosensitive emulsion layers each containing silver halide emulsion grains having 95 mol % or more of silver chloride and a hydrophilic colloid layer containing a white pigment that is applied between the support and the photosensitive emulsion layer nearest to the support, the weight ratio of the white pigment in said hydrophilic colloid layer being 40 wt % or more, and the ratio of the total amount of the hydrophilic colloid applied on the support to the total coating amount of the photosensitive silver halide in the photographic material being in the range from 5.0 to 30.0.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material contains light-sensitive silver halide grains which are contained contained in a silver halide emulsion layer and which have been selenium sensitized. The silver halide emulsion layer also contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## The variables in the formula are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprises a reflective support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer. The reflective support comprises a base paper and two or more water-proof resin layers laminated on one surface of the base paper at the side to be coated with the photosensitive emulsion. The water-proof resin layers have different contents of a white pigment. The base paper has pH of from 5 to 9. The silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 95% by moles or higher and being sensitized with selenium, tellurium, or gold.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least three silver halide emulsion layers having different color sensitivities and formed on a reflective support. The support comprises a substrate and a composition layer laminated on at least the surface of the substrate on which the emulsion layers are coated, and made of a thermoplastic resin containing polyester as a main component and a white pigment mixed and dispersed in the resin. The polyester is a polyester synthesized by the polycondensation of a dicarboxylic acid and a diol. The silver halide contained in the material is silver chlorobromide having silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more, or silver chloride. The ratio of the coated amount of all hydrophilic colloid used in the material to the coated amount of silver contained in all silver halide used in the material ranges from 5.0 to 30.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material for a medical care which provides a good silver color tone in a laser exposures a high sensitivity and an excellent rapid processing performance. The silver halide photographic material for a medical care comprises (A) a transparent support having the thickness of 150 .mu.m or more, and (B) a silver halide emulsion layer provided on the trasparent support, wherein silver halide grains in the silver halide emulsion layer, which contain those having a (100) face/(111) face ratio of 5 or more and those having a silver bromide-localized phase on the surface thereof, have an average grain size of not larger than 0.4 .mu.m in terms of a projected area circle-corresponding diameter, a silver chloride content of at least 90 mole %, and an iron compound of 10.sup.-5 mole or more per mole of silver halide.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer containing a silver halide emulsion on a support. The light-sensitive emulsion layer comprises (a) a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more, in some cases 95 mol % or more, and (b) at least one compound represented by formula (I), (II) or (III): ##STR1## in which the variables are as defined in the specification. In some embodiments of the invention, the silver halide emulsion (a) may be sensitized with a selenium, gold or iridium compound. Also, in some embodiments of the invention, the silver halide grains are substantially iodide-free and have a localized phase with a silver bromide content of 10% or more in the vicinity of the grain surface.

Abstract: A method of forming a photographic image comprising imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a cyan color image forming layer, a magenta color image forming layer and an yellow color image forming layer, wherein the cyan color image forming layer in the photographic material contains silver halide emulsion grains having a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more and containing substantially no silver iodide and contains a color sensitizing dye of the following general formula (I), ##STR1## wherein the terms are as defined in the specification and color developing the exposed material with a color developer, wherein the color developer has a chloride ion content of from 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mol/liter and a bromide ion content of from 1.5.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.0.times.10.sup.-3 mol/liter.

Abstract: The invention is accomplished by providing a combined process of chemical and spectral sensitization comprising providing a silver halide emulsion, adding a sulfur or gold chemical sensitizer, adding a finish modifier ##STR1## wherein X is --O--, --S--, --Se--, ##STR2## Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 individually represent hydrogen or an aromatic nucleus or together represent the atoms completing a fused aromatic nucleus; R is hydrogen or lower alkyl of from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; and R.sub.1 is a hydrogen or methyl, provided that Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 individually represent hydrogen or an aromatic nucleus when R.sub.1 is hydrogen, adding dye, andadding a hydrolyzable quaternized chalcogenazolium salt of a middle chalcogen,heating to a temperature sufficient to cause sensitization of said silver halide to take place, and cooling to recover the sensitized emulsion.

Abstract: There is disclosed a color photographic material and a method for forming a color image using the said photographic material. The color photographic material has at least three dye-forming coupler-containing layers and comprises a reflective support covered with a water-resistant resin composition containing a white pigment and a thermoplastic resin, an emulsion layer that has a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more and contains silver chlorobromide grains or silver chloride grains containing specified metal ions, and the color photographic material being hardened by a specified compound.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support and provided thereon, a silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains and a macrocyclic compound in an amount of 1.times.10.sup.-6 to 1.times.10.sup.-1 mol per mol of silver, said macrocyclic compound comprising a 9- or more-membered ring containing at least one of a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom and a selenium atom, and said silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mol % and containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of metals of VIB group, VIIB group, VIII group, IIB group, IIIA group and IVA group from the Periodic Table.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light-sensitive material which has a high sensitivity and excels in yellow-image storage stability and pressure resistance. The material has blue-sensitive emulsion layers containing specific acylacetoamide type yellow dye-forming couplers represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a monovalent group, Q is a non-metal atom group which bonds to C to form 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring and R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and does not bond to Q to form a ring, at least one of the blue-sensitive emulsion layers contains at least one silver halide emulsion (A) having silver halide grains, 50% or more of which contain 10 or more dislocation lines per grain.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer. The emulsion layer contains an organic compound having a thiosulfonic acid substituent, an organic compound having a sulfinic acid substituent, and an alkynylamine.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprises silver halide grains to which an iridium compound was added during a preparation process. At least 5% by number of said silver halide grains have at least one intrafacial epitaxy limited in the neighborhood of the corners of a major plane of the grain, and the thickness of said epitaxy is 0.1 .mu.m or less.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises, on a support, at least one negative silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains which are subjected to selenium sensitization, have at least one peak value in internal sensitivity speck numbers in a distribution of sensitivity specks, the peak value being present at a depth of 2 nm to less than 50 nm from the surface of the grains, and have an average aspect ratio of less than 8.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for incorporating iridium into silver chloride or silver chlorobromide emulsions containing 90% or more chloride which comprises addition of an iridium salt along with or followed by the addition of bromide to the emulsion, after completion of the precipitation stage of emulsion manufacture. The invention also encompasses the formed emulsions and photographic elements comprising the emulsions.

Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material comprising on a support at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a white pigment between said support and said light-sensitive emulsion layer is provided, wherein (i) said white pigment is incorporated in such an amount that the coated amount thereof in said hydrophilic colloidal layer is in the range of 2 g/m.sup.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion improved in low-intensity reciprocity law failure is provided, in which the silver halide emulsion contains silver halide grains having thereon chemical sensitization nuclei produced during chemical sensitization wherein the nuclei substantially consist of at least two groups of chemical sensitization nucleuses, the groups having different nucleus-size frequency distributions from each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains, a dopant, and a grain surface modifier. The dopant is a transition metal complex comprising a nitrosyl or thionitrosyl ligand with a transition metal selected from the group consisting of ruthenium and osmium. The grain surface modifier is a transition metal selected from Group VIII of the periodic table.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which is high in sensitivity for high-intensity red light source and less in fog formation and excellent in time stability and comprises a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer provided on the support wherein said silver halide emulsion comprises 50 mol % or more of silver chloride and contains 5.times.10.sup.-9 mol or more of a water-soluble rhodium compound per 1 mol of silver and at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following formula (I), pH of said emulsion as finished being 4.8 or less: ##STR1## wherein the symbols are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprises silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less than 10 mol % and a silver bromide content of not less than 0.1 mol % the silver halide grains being formed in the presence of at least one of compounds represented by the following Formula I:Formula IY.sub.n1 MBr.sub.n2 X.sub.n3wherein M represents an ion selected from the group consisting of rhenium, ruthenium, osmium, platinum, palladium, and iridium ion; Y represents a cation; X represents a ligand coordinating M; n.sub.1 represents an integer of 0 to 3; and n.sub.2 and n.sub.3 each represent an integer, provided that n.sub.2 .gtoreq.n.sub.3 and n.sub.2 +n.sub.3 =4 or 6.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material in which silver halide grains contain rhodium salt and not more than 4 mol % of silver iodide, and at least one of spectral sensitizing dyes represented by formula 1 is added before the commencement of chemical ripening, is disclosed. ##STR1## Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 represent ring forming groups with non-metallic atoms i.e. a pyrroline, thiazoline, thiazole, benzothiazole, naphthothiazole, selenazole, benzoselenazole, naphthoselenazole, oxazole, benzooxazole, naphthooxazole, imidazole, benzimidazole or a pyridine group. Each group is unsubstituted or substituted with a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group or a phenyl group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a lower alkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group, a carboxylalkyl group or a sulfoalkyl group; R.sub.3, when n.sub.3 is 1, represents a lower alkyl group or a hydrogen atom, while, when n.sub.3 is zero, represents a hydrogen atom; n.sub.1 and n.sub.2 each is 0 or 1; n.sub.3 is 0 or 1; X.sup.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material comprising at least one sparingly water-soluble epoxy compound represented by formula (I), (II), or (III) and a silver halide emulsion layer which comprises high-silver-chloride grains containing metal ions and/or having silver bromide localized phases on the surface thereof, and/or that have been sensitized by a gold compound: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a halogen atom; L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 each represent a divalent aliphatic group, which may be substituted or unsubstituted; M.sup.1 represents an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom; A represents a polyvalent linking group; a, b, and c each are an integer of 0 to 4; x and y each are an actual number of 0 to 20; l is 1 or 2; and m represents an integer of 2 to 4.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having photographic constituent layers on a support, which photographic material is characterized in that at least one of said photographic constituent layers is a silver halide emulsion layer, at least 50% in number of the light-sensitive silver halide grains in said silver halide emulsion layer being grains that contain at least 60 mol % of silver bromide, and at least one of said photographic constituent layers containing at least one of the compounds represented by the following general formula (I):[HlAu.sub.m (L).sub.n (X).sub.p ].sub.q (I)where L is a 1igand in a 5- or 6-membered hetero ring; X is an anionic group; l is an integer of 0-2; m is an integer of 1 or 2; n is an integer of 1-3; p is an integer of 0-3; and q is an integer of 1-4.

Abstract: The invention is generally accomplished by providing a halide emulsion comprising radiation sensitive silver halide doped with a combination of iridium and transition metal complex with a nitrosyl ligand. The method of doping comprises one in which the transition metal complex with a nitrosyl ligand is generally evenly distributed throughout the grain and the iridium is present in about the outer 10 percent, by volume, of said grain. In a preferred form, the transition metal complex with a nitrosyl ligand is present in an amount between about 0.03 and about 36 molar parts per billion, and the iridium is present in an amount of between about 10 and about 350 molar parts per billion.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material includes a support and at least one layer of silver halide emulsion formed on the support. The emulsion layer contains silver halide grains which have been subjected both to reduction sensitization while growing and to at least one chemical sensitization selected from the group consisting of gold sensitization, sulfur sensitization, and noble-metal sensitization. Each of the silver halide grains has at least 5 mol % of silver iodide on a surface thereof.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide grain emulsion layer is provided, wherein the silver halide emulsion is chemical-sensitized with a selenium compound; and, at a time during the course of chemical sensitization, silver iodide fine grains is further added to the emulsion. The silver halide emulsion comprises tabular grains having an aspect ration of 3 or more.