Patent ID: 6696235
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains, wherein 50% or more of the total number of all the silver halide grains are occupied by tabular grains, each of which satisfying the following requirements:(i) composed of silver iodobromide or silver chloroiodobromide, and having (111) faces as main planes; (ii) having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 &mgr;m or more and a thickness of 0.1 &mgr;m or less; (iii) having 10 or more dislocation lines at a fringe portion thereof; and (iv) composed of a core portion substantially not containing any dislocation line and a shell portion containing dislocation lines, and the shell portion having a thickness of 0.01 &mgr;m or more as measured in a direction perpendicular to the main plane.