Patent ID: 6210870
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
A method of creating density representative electronic signals from a scene exposed onto a color element suited for preloading in a one-time-use camera and for producing a color image suited for conversion to an electronic form, electronic correction and subsequent reconversion into a viewable form comprising the step of:A) scanning an imagewise exposed and color developed color element,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, the layer units each comprises less than 0.02 millimole/m.sup.2 of colored masking coupler, the layer units each exhibits a dye image gamma of less than 1.5, 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, and the gamma ratio of each of the red, green and blue light recording layer units is between 0.80 and 1.20,to form density representative electronic signals for said red, green and blue color recording units wherein said support defines two faces and all the sensitized layers are supplied on a common face of said support, and said element is supplied in roll form configured to enable upon unrolling, exposure onto the sensitized layer unit-bearing face of said support.