Patent ID: 6218095
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising a support and photographic constituent layers formed thereon, said photographic constituent layers comprising at least one photographic photosensitive layer comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion, a compound which forms a dye through a coupling reaction with an oxidized form of a developing agent, and a binder, the photosensitive layer of said silver halide color photographic photosensitive material after exposure thereof being put together with a processing layer of a processing material so that the photosensitive layer and the processing layer face each other, and being heated to form a color image in the silver halide color photographic photosensitive material, said at least one photosensitive layer comprising an emulsion comprising tabular silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, wherein the tabular silver halide grains, which have the major exterior faces of the grains made up of a (111) plane and have a plane of projection of the grains in a shape of a hexagon with the ratio of the lengths of neighboring sides ranging from 1:1 to 1:5 to give an aspect ratio of 2 or greater, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and said at least one photosensitive layer containing at least one of the pyrazolotriazole couplers represented by the following general formula VIII and IX: ##STR79##where R.sub.1 represents a secondary or tertiary alkyl group, R.sub.2 represents an alkyl or aryl group, and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group which can split off at the time when the coupler undergoes a coupling reaction with the oxidized form of the developing agent.