Patent ID: 6534257
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
A silver halide photographic emulsion containing silver halide grains wherein a variation coefficient of distribution of equivalent circle diameters of all the silver halide grains is 40 to 3%, and tabular grains, which satisfy the following requirements (i) to (iv), account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains:(i) silver bromoiodide or silver bromochloroiodide tabular grains having (111) faces as main planes, (ii) the equivalent circle diameter is 1.0 &mgr;m or more and a thickness is 0.10 &mgr;m or less, (iii) ten or more dislocation lines per grain are present at a fringe portion of the grain, and (iv) when the grain is viewed from a direction perpendicular to the (111) main plane, it has a hexagonal or triangular shape whose edge and/or corner are partly substantially hollowed.