Patent ID: 6696232
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
A color negative photographic film element for producing a color image suited for conversion to an electronic form and subsequent reconversion into a viewable form:said element comprising a support and, coated on the support, a plurality of hydrophilic colloid layers, including radiation-sensitive silver halide 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 the element comprises a development inhibitor releasing compound in at least one layer unit, at least one of the layer units contains two or more emulsion layers differing in sensitivity, the layer units each exhibit a dye image gamma of less than 1.0, the element exhibits an exposure latitude of at least 2.7 log E, where E is exposure measured in lux-seconds, and a light sensitivity of at least ISO 50, the gamma ratio of each of the red, green and blue light recording layer units is between about 0.80 and 1.30, the average layer thickness is about 1.5 micrometers or less, and at least one of the red light recording and the green light recording layer units is divided into four or more sub-unit layers and the radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsions contained in different sub-units of the same layer unit differ in sensitivity.