Patent ID: 6043012
Filing Date: 2000-03-28
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
A color negative photographic element for producing a color image suited for conversion to an electronic form and subsequent reconversion into a viewable form comprised ofa support and, coated on the support,a plurality of hydrophilic colloid layers, including radiation-sensitive silver emulsion layers, forming layer units for separately recording blue, green and red exposures,each of the layer units containing dye image forming coupler chosen to produce image dye having an absorption half-peak bandwidth lying in a different spectral region in each layer unit,WHEREIN at least one of the color recording layer unitsexhibits a dye image gamma between about 0.1 and 1.0 andis subdivided into at least first, second and third light sensitive layers spectrally sensitized to the same region of the visible spectrum,the first layer is least sensitive of the first, second and third light sensitive layers,the second layer is more sensitive than the first layer and coated farther from the support than the first layer,the first and second layers contain a molar ratio of oxidized developing agent scavenging compound to dye image forming coupler of at least 0.35,the third layer is more sensitive than the second layer and coated farther from the support than the second layer, andthe third layer contains a molar ratio of oxidized developing agent scavenging compound to dye image forming coupler that is less than 50% of the molar ratio in the second layer.