Patent ID: 6500607
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer which is exposed and processed with a development process comprising a developing process and a fixing process, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer contains, in the dispersion medium phase of the emulsion, one or more kinds of inorganic fine particles having a refractive index of from 1.62 to 3.30 to the light having a wavelength of 500 nm, the total weight of said fine particles contained in the unit volume of said dispersion medium phase is from 1.0 to 95 wt %, the dispersion medium phase containing said fine particles is substantially transparent to the photosensitive peak wavelength light of said emulsion layer, and the residual silver halide grains in the photographic material after development are removed from the photographic material by a fixing treatment;wherein at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains inorganic fine particles having a particle diameter of 100 nm or less; wherein the inorganic fine particles are oxides containing as a component at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Sn, Al, Pb, Ba, In, Si, Sb, Ge, La, Zr, W, Ta and Nb.