Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which causes less fluctuation in the photographic processing activity of a processing solution in continuously processing the light-sensitive material and which has less unevenness in processing and excellent color reproducibility and sharpness. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support, and provided thereon at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer, and containing a coupler represented by the following Formula (I) and a coupler represented by the following Formula (II): PA1 Formula (I) EQU A.sub.1 -(TIME).sub.a -DI PA1 Formula (II) EQU A.sub.2 -(TIME).sub.a -DI wherein A.sub.1 represents a group having an anti-diffusion group and releasing (TIME).sub.a -DI upon a reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; A.sub.2 represents a group having no anti-diffusion group and releasing (TIME).sub.a -DI upon a reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; TIME represents a timing group which splits from DI after separating from A; DI represents a development inhibitor which is substantially deactivated after eluting in a developing solution; and a represents 1 or 2, and when a is 2, the two TIME's are the same or different.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic 
light-sensitive material, specifically to a silver halide color 
photographic light-sensitive material which causes less fluctuation in the 
photographic processing activity of a processing solution in continuously 
processing the light-sensitive material and which has less unevenness in 
image density caused by fluctuation of processing and excellent color 
reproducibility and sharpness. 
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
In a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, 
particularly a color light-sensitive material for photographing, there is 
required a light-sensitive material having good color reproducibility and 
sharpness and exhibiting no adverse affect on the photographic processing 
activity of a processing solution in continuously processing the 
light-sensitive material. 
The novel DIR coupler in which a dye formed from the coupler is eluted in a 
developing solution after a color development was proposed in 
JP-A-58-162949 ( the term "JP-A" as used herein means an unexamined 
published Japanese patent application) and JP-A-63-37350 for the purpose 
of improving a sharpness, a color reproducibility, and a light-sensitive 
material storing performance. The sharpness, color reproducibility and 
light-sensitive material storing performance were certainly improved by 
using these DIR couplers. However, there was involved the problem that the 
application only of these couplers markedly increased the fluctuation in 
the activity of a developing solution. 
Further, there are proposed in, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,782,012, and 
JP-A-57-151944, JP-A-3-198048, and JP-A-3-228048, light-sensitive 
materials which contain DIR couplers having structures similar to those of 
the couplers of the present invention represented by Formula (I) and 
Formula (II) and have improved color reproducibility, sharpness and 
storing performance of the light-sensitivity, and which are designed so 
that a development inhibitor eluted in a processing solution is 
deactivated therein to thereby allow the adverse affects to be less liable 
to be exerted to the processing activity in a continuous processing. 
Certainly, an interlayer effect and an edge effect were improved by using 
these DIR couplers and the color reproducibility and sharpness were 
improved to some extent. However, the effects thereof remained still 
insufficient. Further, the adverse effect to the processing activity in 
the continuous processing was decreased, but in the case where a recent 
color developing solution having a reduced replenishing amount was used, 
there still remained the problem that the fluctuation in the activity of 
the developing solution was still larger. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
A first object of the present invention is to provide a light-sensitive 
material having less fluctuation fatigue in the photographic performances 
of a processing solution in continuously processing the light-sensitive 
material. 
A second object of the present invention is to provide a light-sensitive 
material in which an unevenness in image density is less liable to 
generate in the processing. 
A third object of the present invention is to provide a light-sensitive 
material having excellent sharpness, color reproducibility and graininess 
altogether. 
A fourth object of the present invention is to provide a light-sensitive 
material having less fluctuation in the photographic performances of a 
processing solution and excellent sharpness and color reproducibility even 
in processing with less replenishing amount of a color developing 
solution. 
The above objects of the present invention have been achieved by the 
following light-sensitive material: that is, a silver halide color 
light-sensitive material comprising a support, and provided thereon at 
least one red-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive 
emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer, and 
containing a coupler represented by the following Formula (I) and a 
coupler represented by the following Formula (II): Formula (I) 
EQU A.sub.1 -(TIME).sub.a -DI 
Formula (II) 
EQU A.sub.2 -(TIME).sub.a -DI 
wherein A.sub.1 represents a group having an anti-diffusion group and 
releasing (TIME).sub.a -DI upon a reaction with an oxidation product of an 
aromatic primary amine developing agent; A.sub.2 represents a group having 
no anti-diffusion group and releasing (TIME).sub.a -DI upon a reaction 
with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; 
TIME represents a timing group which splits from DI after separating from 
A; DI represents a development inhibitor which is substantially 
deactivated after eluting into a developing solution; and a represents 1 
or 2, and when a is 2, the two TIME's are the same or different. 
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
The compounds represented by Formulas (I) and (II) will be described below 
in detail. 
A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represent a coupler group, such as a coupler image 
forming group or a coupler group which does not substantially form a color 
image. 
When A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represent a yellow color image-forming coupler 
group, examples thereof include, for example, a pivaloylacetoanilide, a 
benzoylacetoanilide, a malonic ester, a carbamoylacetoamide, a malonic 
ester monoamide, a benzimidazlylacetoamide, or a cycloalkanoylacetoamide 
group. Further, they may be the coupler groups described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 
5,021,332 and 5,021,330, or European Patent 421221A. 
When A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represent a magenta-forming coupler group, 
examples thereof include, for example, a 5-pyrazolone, a 
pyrazolobenzimidazote, a pyrazolotriazole, a pyrazoloimidazole, or a 
cyanoacetophenone group. 
When A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represent a cyan color image-forming coupler 
group, examples thereof include, for example, a phenol or a naphthol 
group. Further they may be the coupler groups described in U.S. Pat. No. 
4,746,602, and EP-A-249453. 
Further, A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 may be a coupler group which does not 
substantially leave a color image. There can be enumerated as coupler 
groups of this type, for example, an indanone coupler group and an 
acetophenone coupler group, and an eluting coupler group described in 
EP-A-443530 or EP-A-444501. 
In Formulas (I) and (II), a preferred example of A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 is a 
coupler group represented by (Cp-1), (Cp-2), (Cp-3), (Cp-4), (Cp-5), 
(Cp-6), (Cp-7), (Cp-8), (Cp-9), or (Cp-10). These couplers are preferred 
since they have a fast coupling speed.; 
##STR1## 
In the above formulas, a free bond present at a coupling site represents 
the bonding position of a coupling elimination group. 
When the coupler group is A.sub.1 in the above formulas (Cp-1) to (Cp-10), 
at least one of R.sub.51, R.sub.52, R.sub.53, R.sub.54, R.sub.55, 
R.sub.56, R.sub.57, R.sub.58, R.sub.59, R.sub.60, R.sub.61, R.sub.62, or 
R.sub.63 contains an anti-diffusion group, and it is selected so that the 
sum of the carbon number in R.sub.51 to R.sub.63 is 8 to 40, preferably 10 
to 30. In case of a coupler of a bis type, a telomer type, or a polymer 
type, any of the above substituents can represent a divalent group to form 
a repetitive unit. In this case, the carbon number may be outside of the 
above range. 
The anti-diffusion group means a group which increases the molecular weight 
of the compound sufficiently to allow a molecule of the compound to be 
immobilized to the layer to which it is added. 
When the coupler group is A.sub.2 in the above formulas (Cp-1) to (Cp-10), 
it is selected so that the sum of the carbon number contained in R.sub.51, 
R.sub.52, R.sub.53, R.sub.54, R.sub.55, R.sub.56, R.sub.57, R.sub.58, 
R.sub.59, R.sub.60, R.sub.61, R.sub.62, or R.sub.63 is 0 to 15, preferably 
0 to 10. 
R.sub.51 to R.sub.63, b, d, e, and f will be explained below in detail. In 
the following, R.sub.41 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a 
heterocyclic group; R.sub.42 represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic 
group, and R.sub.43, R.sub.44 and R.sub.45 each represents a hydrogen 
atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group. 
R.sub.51 has the same meaning as R.sub.41. R.sub.52 and R.sub.53 each have 
the same meaning as R.sub.43. b represents 0 or 1. R.sub.54 represents a 
group which has the same meaning as R.sub.41, a R.sub.41 CO(R.sub.43)N-- 
group, a R.sub.41 SO.sub.2 (R.sub.43)N-- group, a R.sub.41 (R.sub.43)N-- 
group, a R.sub.41 S-- group, a R.sub.43 O-- group, or a R.sub.45 
(R.sub.43)NCON(R.sub.44)-- group. 
R.sub.55 represents a group which has the same meaning as R.sub.41. 
R.sub.56 and R.sub.57 each represents a group which has the same meaning 
as R.sub.43, a R.sub.41 S-- group, a R.sub.43 O-- group a R.sub.41 
CO(R.sub.43)N-- group, or a R.sub.41 SO.sub.2 (R.sub.43)N-- group. 
R.sub.58 represents a group which has the same meaning as R.sub.41. 
R.sub.59 represents a group which has the same meaning as R.sub.41, a 
R.sub.41 CO(R.sub.43)N-- group, a R.sub.41 OCO(R.sub.43)N-- group, a 
R.sub.41 SO.sub.2 (R.sub.43)N-- group, a R.sub.43 
(R.sub.44)NCO(R.sub.45)N-- group, a R.sub.41 O-- group, a R.sub.41 S-- 
group, a halogen atom, or a R.sub.41 (R.sub.43)N-- group. d represents 0 
to 3. When d is plural, a plurality of R.sub.59 represents the same groups 
or different groups. R.sub.60 represents a group which has the same 
meaning as R.sub.43. R.sub.61 represents a group which has the same 
meaning as R.sub.43. R.sub.62 represents a group which has the same 
meaning as R.sub.41, a R.sub.41 CONH-- group, a R.sub.41 O CONH-- group, a 
R.sub.41 SO.sub.2 NH-- group, a R.sub.43 (R.sub.44)NCONH-- group, a 
R.sub.43 (R.sub.44)NSO.sub.2 NH-- group, a R.sub.43 O-- group, a R.sub.41 
S-- group, a halogen atom, or a R.sub.41 NH-- group. R.sub.63 represents a 
group which has the same meaning as R.sub.41, a R.sub.43 CO(R.sub.44)N-- 
group, a R.sub.43 (R.sub.44)NCO-- group, a R.sub.41 SO.sub.2 (R.sub.43)N-- 
group, a R.sub.41 (R.sub.43)NSO.sub.2 -- group, a R.sub.41 SO.sub.2 -- 
group, a R.sub.43 OCO-- group, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano 
group, or a R.sub.43 CO-- group. e represents an integer of 0 to 4. When a 
plurality of R.sub.62 or R.sub.63 is present in (Cp-9), they each 
represents the same ones or different ones. f represents an integer of 0 
to 3. When a plurality of R.sub.63 is present in (Cp-10), they each 
represents the same ones or different ones. 
When the coupler group is A.sub.1 in the above formulas, the definitions of 
an alkyl group, an aryl group and a heterocyclic group are explained as 
follows. 
The alkyl group is a saturated or unsaturated, chain or cyclic, linear or 
branched, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having a carbon number 
of 1 to 32, preferably 1 to 22. There can be enumerated as representative 
examples thereof, methyl, cyclopropyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, t-butyl, 
i-butyl, t-amyl, cyclohexyl, 2-ethylhexyl, 1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl, 
n-dodecyl, n-hexadecyl, or n-octadecyl. 
The aryl group is that having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and preferably a 
substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or a substituted or unsubstituted 
naphthyl. 
The heterocyclic group is that having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably 1 to 
7 carbon atoms, and preferably a 3-membered to 8-membered, substituted or 
unsubstituted heterocyclic group and containing a hetero atom selected 
from a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom. There can be 
enumerated as representative examples of the heterocyclic group, 
2-imidazolyl, 2-benzimidazolyl, morpholino, pyrrolidino, 
1,2,4-triazole-2-yl, or 1-indolinyl. 
When the above alkyl group, aryl group and heterocyclic group have 
substituents, there can be enumerated as representative examples of the 
substituents, a halogen atom, a R.sub.47 O-- group, a R.sub.46 S-- group, 
a R.sub.47 CO(R.sub.48)N-- group, a R.sub.47 (R.sub.48)NCO-- group, a 
R.sub.45 SO.sub.2 (R.sub.47)N-- group, a R.sub.47 (R.sub.48)NSO.sub.2 -- 
group, a R.sub.45 SO.sub.2 -- group, a R.sub.47 OCO-- group, a R.sub.47 
CONHSO.sub.2 -- group, a R.sub.47 (R.sub.48)NCONHSO.sub.2 -- group, a 
group which has the same meaning as R.sub.46, a R.sub.47 (R.sub.48)N-- 
group, a R.sub.45 COO-- group, a cyano group, or a nitro group, wherein 
R.sub.45 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic 
group, and R.sub.47 and R.sub.48 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl 
group, a heterocyclic group, or a hydrogen atom. The definitions of the 
alkyl group, aryl group and heterocyclic group in R.sub.45, R.sub.47 and 
R.sub.48 are the same as those defined previously. 
When the coupler group is A.sub.2 in the above formulas, the definitions of 
an alkyl group, an aryl group and a heterocyclic group are explained as 
follows. 
The alkyl group is a saturated or unsaturated, chain or cyclic, linear or 
branched, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having a carbon number 
of 1 to 12, preferably 1 to 8. There can be enumerated as representative 
examples thereof, methyl, cyclopropyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, t-butyl, 
i-butyl, t-amyl, cyclohexyl, 2-ethylhexyl, or 1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl. 
The aryl group is that having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and preferably a 
substituted or unsubstituted phenyl. 
The heterocyclic group is that having a carbon number of 1 to 10, 
preferably 1 to 5 and containing a hetero atom selected from a nitrogen 
atom, an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom and preferably a 3-membered to 
8-membered, substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group. There can be 
enumerated as representative examples of the heterocyclic group, 
2-imidazolyl, 2-benzimidazolyl, morpholino, pyrrolidino, 
1,2,4-triazole-2-yl, or 1-indolinyl. 
When the above alkyl group, aryl group and heterocyclic group have 
substituents, there can be enumerated as representative examples of the 
substituents, a halogen atom, a R.sub.47 O-- group, a R.sub.46 S-- group, 
a R.sub.47 CO(R.sub.48)N-- group, a R.sub.47 (R.sub.48)NCO-- group, a 
R.sub.46 SO.sub.2 (R.sub.47)N-- group, a R.sub.47 (R.sub.48)NSO.sub.2 -- 
group, a R.sub.46 SO.sub.2 -- group, a R.sub.47 OCO-- group, a R.sub.47 
CONHSO.sub.2 -- group, a R.sub.47 (R.sub.48)NCONHSO.sub.2 -- group, a 
group which has the same meaning as R.sub.48, a R.sub.47 (R.sub.48)N-- 
group, a R.sub.46 COO-- group, a cyano group, or a nitro group, wherein 
R.sub.46 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic 
group, and R.sub.47 and R.sub.48 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl 
group, a heterocyclic group, or a hydrogen atom. The definitions of the 
alkyl group, aryl group and heterocyclic group for R.sub.46, R.sub.47 and 
R.sub.48 are the same as those defined previously. 
Next, the development inhibitor represented by DI will be explained below. 
The development inhibitor represented by DI includes, for example, the 
development inhibitors described U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,477,563, 5,021,331, 
4,937,179, and 5,004,677, and European Patent Publications (EP) 336411A, 
436190A, 440466A, 446863A, 447921A, 451526A, 458315A, 481422A, and 
488310A. It includes particularly preferably tetrazolylthio, 
1,3,4-oxadiazolylthio, 1,3,4-thiadiazolylthio, 1-(or 2-)benzotriazolyl, 
1,2,4-triazole-1-(or 4-)yl, 1,2,3-triazole-1yl, 1-(or 2-)tetrazolyl, 
2-benzothiazolylthio, 2-benzimidazolylthio, and substituted compounds 
thereof. 
DI shows a development inhibiting action after splitting from (TIME).sub.a 
and during processing a part thereof is eluted from a photographic layer 
to a developing solution. DI eluted in the developing solution is 
decomposed to substantially loose its development inhibiting action. The 
decomposition speed thereof is 30 seconds to 2 hours, preferably 2 minutes 
to 1 hour in terms of a half life. An alkali hydrolysis, a decomposition 
by a reaction with a chemical species (hydroxylamine and others) contained 
in a developer, or a deactivation by a substitution reaction of an 
adsorbing group (a mercapto group contained in DI) is representative as a 
decomposition reaction. Particularly preferred is the case in which at 
least one of the substituents contained in DI has an ester bond. For 
example, the following examples can be enumerated as DI: 
##STR2## 
Next, the group represented by TIME will be explained below. 
The group represented by TIME may be anyone as long as it is a group 
capable of splitting from DI after splitting from A.sub.1 or A.sub.2 in a 
development processing. There can be enumerated, for example, a group 
utilizing a cleavage reaction of hemiacetal, described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 
4,146,396, 4,652,516, and 4,698,297; a timing group causing a cleavage 
reaction by utilizing an intermolecular nucleophilic substitution 
reaction, described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,248,962, 4,847,185, 4,912,028, and 
4,857,440; a timing group causing a cleavage reaction by utilizing an 
electron transfer reaction, described in U. S. Pat. Nos. 4,409,323, 
5,034,311, 5,055,385, and 4,421,845; a group causing a cleavage reaction 
by utilizing the hydrolysis reaction of iminoketal, described in U.S. Pat. 
No. 4,546,073; and a group causing a cleavage reaction by utilizing a 
hydrolysis reaction of ester, described in GP-A-2626317. There can be 
enumerated as an example in which two TIME's are combined (when a in 
Formula (I) or (II) is 2), the timing groups described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 
4,861,701, 5,026,628, and 5,021,322, EP-A-499279 and EP-A-438129. TIME may 
be a timing group releasing two DI's, and the timing group described in 
EP-A-464612 can be enumerated as the example thereof. TIME is bonded to 
A.sub.1 or A.sub.2 via a hetero atom contained in TIME, preferably an 
oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a nitrogen atom. 
Preferred is the case in which at least one of the TIME's used in Formula 
(II) contains an anti-diffusion group. In this case, TIME contains a 
substituent having a total carbon number of 8 to 40, preferably 10 to 22. 
The following Formula (T-1), (T-2) or (T-3) can be enumerated as preferred 
TIME: 
EQU *--W--(X.dbd.Y).sub.j --C(R.sub.21)R.sub.22 --** Formula (T-1) 
EQU *--W--CO--** Formula (T-2) 
EQU *--W--LINK--E--** Formula (T-3) 
In the above formulas, * represents the position for bonding to A.sub.1 or 
A.sub.2 in Formula (I) or (II); ** represents the position for bonding to 
DI or TIME (when a is plural); W represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, 
or .dbd.N--R.sub.23; X and Y each represents a substituted or 
unsubstituted methine group or a nitrogen atom; j represents 0, 1 or 2; 
and R.sub.21, R.sub.22 and R.sub.23 each represents a hydrogen atom or a 
substituent, wherein when X and Y represent a substituted methine, there 
may be either the case in which a cyclic structure is formed by a 
combination of any of the substituents of the substituted methine, 
R.sub.21, R.sub.22 and R.sub.23 (for example, a benzene ring or a pyrazole 
ring), or the case in which such the cyclic structure is not formed. In 
Formula (T-3), E represents an electrophilic group, and LINK represents a 
linkage group sterically linking W and E so that they can be subjected to 
an intermolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction. Most preferred as 
TIME is that represented by Formula (T-1). Specific examples are, for 
example, the following ones: 
##STR3## 
Specific representative examples of the coupler used in the present 
invention represented by Formula (I) will be shown below, but the present 
invention is not limited thereto: 
##STR4## 
Next, specific examples of the coupler represented by Formula (II) will be 
shown below, but the present invention is not limited thereto: 
##STR5## 
The couplers represented by Formula (I) and Formula (II) can be synthesized 
according to the methods described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,782,012, and 
JP-A-57-151944, JP-A-58-162949, JP-A-60-128444, JP-A-63-37350, 
JP-A-3-198048, JP-A-3-228048, JP-A-4-251843, JP-A-4-278942, JP-A-4-279943, 
JP-A-4-280247, and JP-A-313750, and the methods described in the 
literatures and patents cited therein. 
The couplers represented by Formula (I) and Formula (II) can be emulsified 
and dispersed by the same method as that applied to a conventional 
coupler, which will be described later and then can be added to a 
light-sensitive material. The coupler represented by Formula (I) is added 
preferably to an infrared-sensitive emulsion layer. A.sub.1 of Formula is 
represented preferably by (Cp-6), (Cp-7) and (Cp-8), and (Cp-8) is 
particularly preferred. 
The coupler represented by Formula (II) is added preferably to a 
green-sensitive emulsion layer and/or a blue-sensitive emulsion layer. 
The addition amounts of the couplers represented by Formula (I) and Formula 
(II) each are 1.0.times.10.sup.-5 to 0.30 g/m.sup.2, preferably 
1.0.times.10.sup.-4 to 0.20 g/m.sup.2, and more preferably 
1.0.times.10.sup.-3 to 0.10 g/m.sup.2 of the photographic material. 
The light-sensitive material of the present invention may comprise on a 
support at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least 
one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one 
red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and there are specifically no 
limits to the number and order of the silver halide emulsion layers and 
non-light-sensitive layers. 
One typical example is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive 
material having on a support at least one light-sensitive layer unit 
comprising a plurality of the silver halide emulsion layers having 
substantially the same color sensitivity but different photographic 
speeds, wherein the light-sensitive layer unit has a spectral sensitivity 
to any of blue light, green light and red light. In a multi-layer silver 
halide color photographic light-sensitive material, the light-sensitive 
layer units are usually provided in the order of a red-sensitive layer 
unit, a green-sensitive layer unit and a blue-sensitive layer unit from 
the support side. According to purposes, however, the above order may be 
different, or there can be taken an arrangement order in which a layer 
having a different light sensitivity is interposed between the layers 
having the same color sensitivity. 
Various non-light-sensitive layers such as an intermediate layer may be 
provided between the above silver halide light-sensitive layers and on the 
uppermost layer or lowest layer. 
The above intermediate layer may contain the couplers and DIR compounds 
described in JP-A-61-43748, JP-A-59-113438, JP-A-59-113440, JP-A-61-20037, 
and JP-A-61-20038 and may further contain an anti-color mixing agent as 
usually used. 
In the plural silver halide emulsion layers constituting the respective 
light-sensitive layer units, there can preferably be used a two layer 
structure consisting of a high-speed emulsion layer and a low-speed 
emulsion layer, as described in German Patent 1,121,470 or British Patent 
923,045. Usually, they are preferably provided so that the speeds become 
lower in order to the support. A non-light-sensitive layer may be provided 
between the respective silver halide emulsion layers. Further, a low-speed 
layer may be provided on the side farther from the support and a 
high-speed layer may be provided on the side closer to the support, as 
described in JP-A-57-112751, JP-A-62-200350, JP-A-62-206541, and 
JP-A-62-206543. 
There can be provided as a specific example thereof, the layers from the 
side farthest from the support in the order of a low-speed blue-sensitive 
layer (BL)/a high-speed blue-sensitive layer (BH)/a high-speed 
green-sensitive layer (GH)/a low-speed green-sensitive layer (GL)/a 
high-speed red-sensitive layer (RH)/a low-speed red-sensitive layer (RL), 
or the order of BH/BL/GL/GH/RH/RL, or the order of BH/BL/GH/GL/RL/RH. 
Further, the layers can be provided from the side farthest from the support 
in the order of a blue-sensitive layer/GH/RH/GL/RL, as described in 
JP-B-55-34932 (the term JP-B" as used herein means an examined Japanese 
patent publication). The layers can also be provided from the side 
farthest from the support in the order of a blue-sensitive 
layer/GL/RL/GH/RH, as described in JP-A-56-25738 and JP-A-62-63936. 
Further, there can be enumerated the arrangement of three layers each 
having different speeds which are lowered in order toward a support, in 
which a highest speed light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is 
provided furthest from the support, a middle speed light-sensitive silver 
halide emulsion layer having a lower speed than the highest speed emulsion 
layer, and a low speed light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having 
a further lower speed than that of the intermediate layer is provided 
closest to the support, as described in JP-B-49-15495. Also, in the case 
where the layers are composed of such three layers as having different 
speeds, the layers having the same color sensitivity may be provided from 
the side farthest from the support in the order of a middle speed 
light-sensitive emulsion layer/a high speed light-sensitive emulsion 
layer/a low speed light-sensitive layer, as described in JP-A-59-202464. 
In addition to the above, the layers may be provided in the order of a high 
speed emulsion layer/a low speed emulsion layer/a middle speed emulsion 
layer, or the order of a low speed emulsion layer/a middle speed emulsion 
layer/a high speed emulsion layer. The layer arrangement may be changed as 
described above also in the case of four layers or more. 
In order to improve color reproduction, a donor layer (CL) having an 
interlayer effect, which is different in spectral sensitivity distribution 
from the primary light-sensitive layers such as BL, GL and RL is 
preferably provided adjacent or close to the primary light-sensitive 
layers, as described in the specifications of U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,663,271, 
4,705,744, and 4,707,436, and JP-A-62-160448 and JP-A-63-89850. 
As described above, various layer structures and arrangements can be 
selected according to the purposes of the respective light-sensitive 
materials. 
A preferred silver halide contained in the light-sensitive material used in 
the present invention is silver bromoiodide, silver chloroiodide or silver 
bromochloroiodide each containing about 30 mole % or less of silver 
iodide. Particularly preferred is silver bromoiodide or silver 
bromochloroiodide each containing up to about 2 to about 10 mole % of 
silver iodide. 
The silver halide grains contained in a photographic emulsion may have a 
regular crystal structure, such as a cubic, octahedral or tetradecahedral 
structure, an irregular crystal structure, such as a spherical or tabular 
structure, a defective crystal structure such as a twinned crystal, or a 
composite form thereof. 
The silver halide may comprise fine grains having a grain size (defined as 
the diameter of a circle having the same area as the projected area of the 
grain and being a number average) of about 0.2 .mu.m or less, or large 
grains having a grain size (defined as above) of up to about 10 .mu.m. The 
silver halide emulsion may be either polydispersed or monodispersed. 
The silver halide photographic emulsion which can be used in the present 
invention can be prepared by the methods described in, for example, 
Research Disclosure (RD) No. 17643 (December 1978), pp. 22-23, "I. 
Emulsion Preparation and Types"; Research Disclosure No. 18716 (November 
1979), p. 648; Research Disclosure No. 307105 (November 1989), pp. 
863-865; Chimie et Physique Photographique, written by P. Glafkides, 
published by Paul Montel Co. (1967); Photographic Emulsion Chemistry, 
written by G. F. Duffin, published by Focal Press Co. (1966); and Making 
and Coating Photographic Emulsions, written by V. L. Zelikman et al, 
published by Focal Press Co. (1964). 
Preferred are the monodispersed emulsions described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 
3,574,628 and 3,655,394, and British Patent 1,413,748. 
Tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 3 or more can be used in the 
present invention. The tabular grains can readily be prepared by the 
methods described in Photographic Science and Engineering, written by 
Gutoff, vol. 14, pp. 248-257 (1970), U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,434,226, 4,414,310, 
4,433,048, and 4,439,520, and British Patent 2,112,157. 
The crystal structure may be uniform, or of a structure in which the 
halogen composition is different in the interior and the surface of the 
grains, or of a stratum structure. Further, silver halides of different 
compositions may be joined with an epitaxial junction. Also, it may be of 
a structure in which silver halide is joined with compounds other than 
silver halide, for example, silver rhodanide and lead oxide. Further, a 
mixture of grains having different crystal forms may be used. 
The above emulsion+may be of any of a surface latent image type in which a 
latent image is formed primarily on the surface of a grain, an internal 
latent image type in which a latent image is formed primarily in the 
inside of the grain, or a type in which latent images are formed either on 
a surface or in the inside of the grain. The emulsion is required to be of 
a negative type. Of the emulsions of the internal latent image type, the 
emulsion may be a core/shell type internal latent image type emulsion 
described in JP-A-3-264740. A method for preparing this core/shell 
internal latent image type emulsion is described in JP-A-59-133542. The 
thickness of the shell of this emulsion can be varied according to the 
development processing which is to be employed and other parameters. It is 
preferably 3 to 40 nm, particularly preferably 5 to 20 nm. 
Usually, the silver halide emulsions are subjected to physical ripening, 
chemical ripening and spectral sensitization before using. The additives 
used in such processes are described in Research Disclosure, No. 17643, 
No. 18716 and No.307105, and the corresponding portions are summarized in 
the table shown later. 
In the light-sensitive material of the present invention, there can be 
mixed and used in the same layer, emulsions of two or more kinds each 
having at least one different characteristic of grain size, grain size 
distribution, halogen composition, grain form, or sensitivity in a 
light-sensitive silver halide emulsion. 
There can be preferably used silver halide grains in which the surfaces 
thereof are fogged, such as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,082,553, silver 
halide grains in which the insides thereof are fogged, such as described 
in U.S. Pat. No. 4,626,498 and JP-A-59-214852, and colloidal silver for a 
light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and/or a substantially 
non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer. The silver halide grains in 
which the insides or surfaces thereof are fogged are defined by silver 
halide grains which can be uniformly (non-imagewise) developed regardless 
of an unexposed portion and an exposed portion in a light-sensitive 
material. The methods for preparing the silver halide grains in which the 
insides or surfaces thereof are fogged are described in U.S. Patent 
4,626,498 and JP-A-59-214852. 
The silver halide constituting the inner nucleus of a core/shell type 
silver halide grain in which the inside thereof is fogged may be either of 
a uniform halogen composition or an ununiform halogen composition. Anyone 
of silver chloride, silver bromochloride, silver bromoiodide and silver 
bromochloroiodide can be used for the silver halide grains in which the 
insides or surfaces thereof are fogged. The grain size of these fogged 
silver halide grains is not specifically limited. The average grain size 
thereof is preferably 0.01 to 0.75 .mu.m, particularly preferably 0.05 to 
0.6 .mu.m. Also, the grain form thereof is not specifically limited. It 
may be a regular grain or a polydispersed emulsion. It is preferably 
monodispersed (at least 95% by weight or by number of the silver halide 
grains have grain sizes falling within .+-.40% of an average grain size). 
In the present invention, non-light-sensitive fine grain silver halide is 
preferably used. Non-light-sensitive fine grain silver halide is silver 
halide fine grains which are not sensitized during imagewise exposing for 
obtaining a dye image and substantially not developed in the development 
processing thereof, and they are preferably not fogged in advance. 
The non-light-sensitive fine grain silver halide has a silver bromide 
content of 0 to 100 mole % and may contain silver chloride and/or silver 
iodide according to necessity. They contain preferably silver iodide of 
0.5 to 10 mole %. 
The non-light-sensitive fine grain silver halide has an average grain size 
(the average value of the diameter of a circle corresponding to the 
projected area of a grain) of preferably 0.01 to 0.5 .mu.m, more 
preferably 0.02 to 0.2 .mu.m. 
The non-light-sensitive fine grain silver halide can be prepared by the 
same method as that for preparing conventional light-sensitive silver 
halide. In this case, the surfaces of the silver halide grains are 
required to be neither optically sensitized nor spectrally sensitized, 
provided that known stabilizers such as the triazole series, azaindene 
series, benzothiazolium series and mercapto series compounds and a zinc 
compound are preferably added to the grains in advance before adding the 
emulsion to a coating solution. Colloidal silver can be preferably 
incorporated into the layer containing this non-light-sensitive silver 
halide fine grain. 
The amount of silver coated on the light-sensitive material of the present 
invention is preferably 6.0 g/m.sup.2 or less, most preferably 4.5 
g/m.sup.2 or less. 
Known photographic additives which can be used in the present invention are 
described in the above three Research Disclosures, and the corresponding 
portions described therein are shown in the following table. 
______________________________________ 
Kind of additives 
RD 17643 RD 18716 RD 307105 
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1. Chemical p. 23 p. 648, p. 866 
sensitizer right colm. 
2. Sensitivity -- p. 648, right 
improver colm. 
3. Spectral pp. 23 p. 648, right 
pp. 866 
sensitizer & to 24 colm. to p. 649, 
to 868 
super- right colm. 
sensitizer 
4. Whitening agent 
p. 24 p. 647, p. 868 
right colm. 
5. Anti-foggant pp. 24 p. 649, pp. 868 
& stabilizer to 25 right colm. 
to 870 
6. Light absorber, 
pp. 25 p. 649, right 
filter dye, to 26 colm. to p. 650, 
p. 873 
& UV absorber left colm. 
7. Anti-stain agent 
p. 25 p. 650, left 
right colm. 
colmn. to right 
p. 872 
colm. 
8. Dye image p. 25 p. 650, left 
p. 872 
stabilizer colm. 
9. Hardener p. 26 p. 651, left 
pp. 874 
colm. to 875 
10. Binder p. 26 p. 651, left 
pp. 873 
colm. to 874 
11. Plasticizer p. 27 p. 650, right 
p. 876 
& lubricant colm. 
12. Coating aid pp. 26 p. 650, right 
pp. 875 
& surfactant to 27 colm. to 876 
13. Anti-static p. 27 p. 650, right 
pp. 876 
agent colm. to 877 
14. Matting -- -- pp. 878 
agent to 879 
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For the purpose of preventing the deterioration of the photographic 
performances attributable to formaldehyde gas, preferably added to a 
light-sensitive material are the compounds capable of reacting with 
formaldehyde to fix it, which are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,411,987 
and 4,435,503. 
The mercapto compounds described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,740,454 and 4,788,132, 
and JP-A-62-18539 and JP-A-1-283551 are preferably incorporated into the 
light-sensitive material of the present invention. 
Preferably incorporated into the light-sensitive material of the present 
invention is a compound capable of releasing a fogging agent, a 
development accelerator, a silver halide solvent or a precursor thereof, 
regardless of the amount of developed silver which is formed by 
development processing, described in JP-A-1-106052. 
There are preferably incorporated into the light-sensitive material of the 
present invention, dyes dispersed by the methods described in 
International Patent Publication W088/04794 and JP=A-1-502912, or the dyes 
described in EP-A-317,308, U.S. Pat. No. 4,420,555, and JP-A-1-259358. 
In the present invention, various color couplers can be used. Specific 
examples thereof are described in the patents abstracted in the above 
Research Disclosure No. 17643, VII-C to G and Research Disclosure No. 
07105, VII-C to G. 
Preferred as a yellow coupler are the compounds described in, for example, 
U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,933,501, 4,022,620, 4,326,024, 4,401,752, and 4,248,961, 
JP-B-58-10739, British Patents 1,425,020 and 1,476,760, U.S. Pat. Nos. 
3,973,968, 4,314,023 and 4,511,649, and EP-A-249,473. 
The 5-pyrazolone and pyrazoloazole series compounds are preferred as a 
magenta coupler. Particularly preferred are the compounds described in 
U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,310,619 and 4,351,897, European Patent 73,636, U.S. Pat. 
Nos. 3,061,432 and 3,725,067, Research Disclosure No. 24220 (June 1984), 
JP-A-60-33552, Research Disclosure No. 24230 (June 1984), JP-A-60-43659, 
JP-A-61-72238, JP-A-60-35730, JP-A-55-118034, and JP-A-60-185951, U.S. 
Pat. Nos. 4,500,630, 4,540,654, and 4,556,630, and International Patent 
Publication WO88/04795. 
The phenol series and naphthol series couplers are examples of a cyan 
coupler which can be used in the present invention. Preferred are the 
compounds described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,052,212, 4,146,396, 4,228,233, 
4,296,200, 2,369,929, 2,801,171, 2,772,162, 2,895,826, 3,772,002, 
3,758,308, 4,334,011, and 4,327,173, German Patent Publication 3,329,729, 
EP-A-121,365 and EP-A-249,453, U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,446,622, 4,333,999, 
4,775,616, 4,451,559, 4,427,767, 4,690,889, 4,254,212, and 4,296,199, and 
JP-A-61-42658. Further, there can be used the pyrazoloazole series 
couplers described in JP-A-64-553, JP-A-64-554, JP-A-64-555, and 
JP-A-64-556, and the imidazole series couplers described in U.S. Pat. No. 
4,818,672. 
Typical examples of a polymerized dye-forming coupler are described in U.S. 
Pat. Nos. 3,451,820, 4,080,211, 4,367,282, 4,409,320, and 4,576,910, 
British Patent 2,102,173, and EP-A-341,188. 
Preferred as a coupler capable of forming a dye having an appropriate 
dispersing property are the compounds described in U.S. Pat. No. 
4,366,237, British Patent 2,125,570, European Patent 96,570, and German 
Patent (published) 3,234,533. 
Preferred as a colored coupler used for correcting an undesired absorption 
of a developed dye are the compounds described in Research Disclosure No. 
17643, Item VII-G and Research Disclosure No. 307105, Item VII-G, U.S. 
Pat. No. 4,163,670, JP-B-57-39413, U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,004,929 and 4,138,258, 
and British Patent 1,146,368. Also, preferably used are the couplers which 
correct the undesired absorption of a developed dye with a fluorescent dye 
released in coupling, described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,774,181, and couplers 
having as a releasing group a dye precursor group capable of reacting with 
a developing agent to form a dye, described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,777,120. 
In the present invention, there can also be preferably used compounds 
releasing a photographically useful group upon coupling. Preferred as a 
DIR coupler releasing a development inhibitor are the compounds described 
in the patents abstracted in the above RD No. 17643, Item VII-F and No. 
307105, Item VII-F, JP-A-57-151944, JP-A-57-154234, JP-A-60-184248, 
JP-A-63-37346, and JP-A-63-37350, U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,248,962 and 4,782,012. 
The bleaching accelerator-releasing couplers described in RD No. 11449 and 
RD No. 24241, and JP-A-61-201247 are effective for shortening the time for 
a processing process having a bleaching ability and are effective 
particularly when they are added to a light-sensitive material in which 
the above tabular silver halide grains are used. 
Preferred as a coupler releasing imagewise a nucleus-forming agent or a 
development accelerator during developing are the compounds described in 
British Patents 2,097,140 and 2,131,188, and JP-A-59-157638 and 
JP-A-59-170840. Also preferred are the compounds releasing a fogging 
agent, a development accelerator and a silver halide solvent upon an 
oxidation-reduction reaction with the oxidation product of a developing 
agent, described in JP-A-60-107029, JP-A-60-252340, JP-A-1-44940 and 
JP-A-1-45687. 
In addition to the above, there can be enumerated as couplers capable of 
being used for the light-sensitive material of the present invention, the 
competitive couplers described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,130,427; the 
polyequivalent couplers described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,283,472, 4,338,393 
and 4,310,618; the DIR redox compound-releasing couplers, DIR 
coupler-releasing couplers, DIR coupler-releasing redox compounds, or DIR 
redox-releasing redox compounds described in JP-A-60-185950 and 
JP-A-62-24252; the couplers releasing a dye whose color is recovered after 
splitting off, described in EP-A-173,302 and EP-A-313,308; the 
ligand-releasing couplers described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,555,477; the 
couplers releasing a leuco dye, described in JP-A-63-75747; and the 
couplers releasing a fluorescent dye, described in U.S. Pat. No. 
4,774,181. 
The couplers used in the present invention can be incorporated into a 
light-sensitive material by various conventional dispersing methods. 
Examples of a high boiling-solvent used in an oil-in-water dispersion 
method are described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,322,027. Specific examples of the 
high boiling organic solvent which has a boiling point of 175.degree. C. 
or higher at a normal pressure and is used in an oil-in-water dispersion 
method are phthalic acid esters (dibutyl phthalate, dicyclohexyl 
phthalate, di-2-ethyl-hexyl phthalate, decyl phthalate, 
bis(2,4-di-t-amylphenyl)phthalate, bis(2,4-di-6-amylphenyl)isophthalate, 
and bis(1,1-diethylpropyl)phthalate), phosphoric acid or phosphonic acid 
esters (triphenyl phosphate, tricresyl phosphate, 2-ethylhexyldiphenyl 
phosphate, tricyclohexyl phosphate, tri-2-ethylhexyl phosphate, tridodecyl 
phosphate, tributoxyethyl phosphate, trichloropropyl phosphate, and 
di-2-ethylhexylphenyl phosphate), benzoic acid esters (2-ethylhexyl 
benzoate, dodecyl benzoate, and 2-ethylhexyl-p-hydroxybenzoate), amides 
(N,N-diethyldodecanamide, N,N-diethyllaurylamide, and 
N-tetradecylpyrrolidone), alcohols or phenols (isostearyl alcohol and 
2,4-di-tert-amylphenol), aliphatic carboxylic acid esters 
(bis(2-ethylhexyl)sebacate, dioctyl azelate, glycerol tributylate, 
isostearyl lactate, and trioctyl citrate), an aniline derivative 
(N,N-di-butyl-2-butoxy-5-tert-octylaniline), and hydrocarbons (paraffin, 
dodecylbenzene, and diisopropylnaphthalene). Further, there can be used as 
an auxiliary solvent, organic solvents having a boiling point of about 
30.degree. C. or higher, preferably 50.degree. C. or higher and about 
160.degree. C. or lower. Typical examples thereof are ethyl acetate, butyl 
acetate, ethyl propionate, methyl ethyl ketone, cyclohexanone, 
2-ethoxyethyl acetate, and dimethylformamide. 
A latex dispersing method can be employed for dispersing the couplers. 
Specific examples of the processes and effects of a latex dispersing 
method and latexes for impregnation are described in U.S. Pat. No. 
4,199,363, and German Patent Applications (OLS) 2,541,274 and 2,541,230. 
Preferably incorporated into the light-sensitive material of the present 
invention are various preservatives and antimold agents such as phenethyl 
alcohol, and 1,2-benzisothiazoline-3-one, n-butyl p-hydroxybenzoate, 
phenol, 4-chloro-3,5-dimethylphenol, 2-phenoxyethanol, and 2-(4-thiazolyl) 
benzimidazole each described in JP-A-63-257747, JP-A-62-272248 and 
JP-A-1-80941. 
The present invention can be applied to various light-sensitive materials. 
There can be enumerated as representative examples, a color negative film 
for general use or movie use, a color reversal film for a slide or 
television, a color paper, a color positive film, and a color reversal 
paper. 
An appropriate support which can be used in the present invention is 
described in, for example, above RD No. 17643, p. 28, RD No. 18716, p. 
647, right column to p. 648, left column, and RD No. 307105, p. 879. 
In the light-sensitive material of the present invention, the total of the 
thicknesses of all the hydrophilic colloid layers provided on a support 
side having an emulsion layer is preferably 28 .mu.m or less, more 
preferably 23 .mu.m or less, further more preferably 18 .mu.m or less, and 
particularly preferably 16 .mu.m or less. 
The layer swelling speed T1/2 is preferably 30 seconds or less, more 
preferably 20 seconds or less. The layer thickness means a layer thickness 
measured after standing at 25.degree. C. and a relative humidity of 55% 
for two days. The layer swelling speed T1/2 can be measured according to 
the methods known in the art. For example, it can be measured with the 
swellometer of the type described in Photographic Science and Engineering, 
written by A. Green et al, vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 124-129, and T1/2 is 
defined as the time necessary to reach a half of a saturated layer 
thickness, in which the saturated layer thickness corresponds to 90% of 
the maximum swelling layer thickness attained when the layer is processed 
in a color developing solution at 30.degree. C. for 3 minutes and 15 
seconds. 
The layer swelling speed T1/2 can be adjusted by adding a hardener to 
gelatin which acts as a binder or by changing the aging conditions after 
coating. The swelling ratio is preferably 150 to 400%, wherein the 
swelling ratio can be calculated from the maximum swollen layer thickness 
attained at the above mentioned conditions according to the following 
equation: 
EQU (maximum swollen layer thickness-layer thickness).div.layer thickness. 
A hydrophilic colloid layer (hereinafter referred to as a back layer) 
having a total dry layer thicknesses of 2 to 20 .mu.m is preferably 
provided on a support side opposite to the side having thereon an emulsion 
layer. Preferably incorporated into this back layer are the above light 
absorber, filter dye, UV absorber, anti-static agent, hardener, binder, 
plasticizer, lubricant, coating aid, and surface active agent. The 
swelling ratio of this back layer is preferably 150 to 500%. 
The light-sensitive material according to the present invention can be 
subjected to development processing according to the conventional methods 
described in the above RD No. 17643, pp. 28-29, RD No. 18716, p. 651, left 
column to right column, and RD No. 307105, pp. 880-881. 
The known aromatic primary amine color developing agents can be used as a 
color developing agent in a color developing solution. 
The preferred color developing agent is a p-phenylenediamine compound, and 
there can enumerated as representative examples thereof: 
D-1: 4-amino-3-methyl-N-ethyl-N-(.beta.-hydroxyethyl)aniline 
D-2: 4-amino-3-methyl-N-ethyl-N-[.beta.-(methane-sulfonamide)ethyl]aniline 
D-3: 4-amino-3-methyl-N-ethyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)aniline 
D-4: 4-amino-3-methyl-N-ethyl-N-(3-hydroxypropyl)aniline, 
or, the color developing agent represented by Formula (I) in JP-A-4-443. 
There can be used for a color developing solution as a compound directly 
preserving the above aromatic primary amine color developing agents, 
various hydroxylamines described in JP-A-63-5341, JP-A-63-106655, and 
JP-A-4-144446, hydroxamic acids described in JP-A-63-43138, hydrazines and 
hydrazides described in JP-A-63-146041, phenols described in JP-A-63-44657 
and 3-58443, .alpha.-hydroxyketones and .alpha.-aminoketones described in 
JP-A-63-44656, and various sugars described in JP-A-63-36244. Further, 
there can be used in combination with the above compounds, monoamines 
described in JP-A-63-4235, JP-A-63-24254, JP-A-63-21647, JP-A-63-146040, 
JP-A-63-27841, and JP-A-63-25654, diamines described in JP-A-63-30845, 
JP-A-63-14640, and JP-A-63-43139, polyamines described in JP-A-63-21647, 
JP-A-63-26655, and JP-A-63-44655, nitroxy radicals described in 
JP-A-63-53551, alcohols described in JP-A-63-43140 and JP-A-63-53549, 
oximes described in JP-A-63-56654, and tertiary amines described in 
JP-A-63-239447. 
In addition to the above, the color developing solution may contain as a 
preservative according to necessity, various metal compounds described in 
JP-A-57-44148 and JP-A-57-53749, salicylic acids described in 
JP-A-59-180588, alkanolamines described in JP-A-54-3582, 
polyethyleneimines described in JP-A-56-94349, and the aromatic 
polyhydroxy compounds described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,746,544. 
A particularly preferred preservative is a hydroxylamine represented by 
Formula (I) in JP-A-3-14446, and among them, preferred is a compound 
having a methyl, ethyl, sulfo or carboxy substituent. The addition amount 
of these preservatives is 20 to 200 mmole, preferably 30 to 150 mmole per 
liter of color developing solution. 
In addition to the above, various additives described in above 
JP-A-3-144446 (JP-A-'446) can be used in the color developing solution. 
There are applied, for example, as a buffer agent for maintaining pH, 
carbonic acids, phosphoric acids, boric acids, and hydroxybenzoic acids 
each described at page 9 of the above JP-A-'466 patent, and as a chelating 
agent, various aminopolycarboxylic acids, phosphonic acids, and sulfonic 
acids, preferably ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, 
triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid, 1,3-diaminopropanoltetraacetic acid, 
diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid, 
ethylenediamine-N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(methylenephosphonic acid), 
catechol-3,5-disulfonic acid each described at the above page 9 of 
JP-A-'466. The color developing solution is maintained preferably at pH 
ranging between 10 to 12.5, more preferably 10 to 11.5. 
Various additives described at, for example, pages 9 to 10 of the above 
JP-A-'466 patent can be used as a development accelerator. 
A halide ion and an organic anti-fogging agent described at page 10 of the 
above JP-A-'466 patent can be enumerated as an anti-fogging agent. In 
particular, in the case where the concentration of a developing agent 
contained in a color developing solution is as high as 20 millimole/liter 
or more and a high temperature processing of 40.degree. C. or more is 
carried out, a higher bromide ion concentration is preferred and 25 
millimole/liter or more is desired. 
Further, there may be added according to necessity, various surface active 
agents such as alkylsulfonic acid, arylsulfonic acid, aliphatic carboxylic 
acid,- and organic carboxylic acid. 
In color development, a low replenishing processing is preferred. In the 
case where only a conventional DIR coupler is used in a large amount, the 
addition of a sufficiently effective amount thereof can provide an 
unfavorable result in some cases since the photographic performances 
fluctuate in continuous processing. However, the use of the coupler of the 
present invention with the constitution according to the present invention 
has enabled a low replenishing. The replenishing amount is preferably 75 
to 600 ml, more preferably 75 to 500 ml, and further more preferably 75 to 
350 ml per m.sup.2 of a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive 
material. 
The processing temperature is preferably 38.degree. C. or higher, more 
preferably 40.degree. C. or higher and 50.degree. C. or lower. The 
processing time of color development is preferably 3 minutes and 15 
seconds or less, more preferably 2 minutes and 30 seconds or less. 
The bromide concentration in a replenishing solution is preferably 
3.times.10.sup.-3 mole/liter or less, particularly preferably 
3.times.10.sup.-4 mole/liter or less. 
The light-sensitive material subjected to color development is generally 
subjected to a desilvering process. The desilvering process mentioned 
herein consists fundamentally of a bleaching process and a fixing process. 
The desilvering process may be a bleach-fixing process in which these 
processes are carried out at the same time, or can be a combination of 
these processes. 
Aminopolycarboxylic acid ferric salt or a corresponding salt of another 
multivalent metal is preferably used as a bleaching agent, as described at 
page 11 of above mentioned JP-A-3-144446. Further, there are preferably 
used as well, the compounds described in JP-A-4-127145, carbamoyl series 
bleaching agents described in JP-A-4-73647, and the bleaching agents 
having a hereto ring described in JP-A-4-174432. 
In addition to the bleaching agents, there can be used for a desilvering 
process bath, a rehalogenation agent described at page 12 of the above 
JP-A-'466 patent, a pH buffer agent and a conventional additive, 
aminopolycarboxylic acids, and organic phosphonic acids. 
Various bleaching accelerators can be added to a bleaching solution and the 
preceding bath thereof. There can be used as such the bleaching 
accelerators, the compounds having a mercapto group or a disulfide group, 
described in, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,893,858, German Patent 
1,290,812, British Patent 1,138,842, JP-A-53-95630, and Research 
Disclosure No. 17129 (July 1978); the thiazolidine compounds described in 
JP-A-50-140129; the thiourea compounds described U.S. Pat. No. 3,706,561; 
iodides described in JP-A-58-16235; polyethyleneoxides described in German 
Patent 2,748,430; and the polyamine compounds described in JP-B-45-8836. 
Particularly preferred are the mercapto compounds described in British 
Patent 1,138,842 and JP-A-2-190856. 
There can be incorporated into a processing solution having a fixing 
ability as a preservative, sulfites (for example, sodium sulfite, 
potassium sulfite, and ammonium sulfite), hydroxylamines, hydrazines, the 
bisulfite adduct of an aldehyde compound (for example, sodium acetaldehyde 
bisulfite, particularly preferably the compounds described in 
JP-A-3-158848), or the sulfinic acid compounds described in JP-A-1-231051. 
Further, there can be incorporated thereinto, various fluorescent 
whitening agents, defoaming agents, surface active agents, 
polyvinylpyrrolidone, and an organic solvent such as methanol. Further, a 
chelating agent such as various aminopolycarboxylic acids and organic 
phosphonic acids are preferably added to the processing solution having 
the fixing ability for the purpose of stabilizing the processing solution. 
There can be enumerated as the preferred chelating agent, 
1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid, 
ethylenediamine-N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(methylenephosphonic acid), 
nitrilotrimethylenephosphonic acid, ethylenediaminetetracetic acid, 
diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid, cyclohexanediaminetetraacetic acid, 
and 1,2-propylenediamineteraacetic acid. 
The compounds having a pKa of 6.0 to 9.0 are preferably incorporated into 
the processing solution having the fixing ability for the purpose of 
controlling pH or as a buffer agent. Imidazole compounds are preferred as 
these compounds. The imidazole compounds are added preferably in the 
amount of 0.01 mole/liter or more of the processing solution. The more 
preferred addition amount of the imidazole compounds is 0.1 to 10 
mole/liter, particularly preferably 0.2 to 3 mole/liter. 
Suitable imidazole compounds represent imidazole and substituted 
imidazoles, and there can be enumerated as the preferred substituent for 
imidazole, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an amino 
group, a nitro group, and a halogen atom. Further, it may be substituted 
with an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an amino group, a 
nitro group, and a halogen atom. The preferred total carbon number of the 
substituents for imidazole is 1 to 6, and the most preferred substituent 
is methyl. To be specific, the preferred compounds are imidazole, 
2-methylimidazole, and 4-methyl-imidazole, and the most preferred compound 
is imidazole. 
The processing solution having a fixing ability is subjected preferably to 
a silver recovery processing. In case of a processing solution having a 
bleaching ability, an overflow of the processing solution is stored and 
subjected to regeneration by using a regenerant to enable reuse of the 
overflow. The solution having a fixing ability and the solution having a 
bleaching ability may be used independently of each other, or may be used 
as a bleach-fixing solution. In the case where the solution having the 
fixing ability and the solution having the bleaching ability are 
independently used, a waste solution is mainly the solution having the 
fixing ability, or the solution having the fixing ability is subjected to 
an inline silver recovery and the waste solution obtained after finishing 
the silver recovery is discharged. In addition to the inline silver 
recovery, all of the overflow is subjected to the silver recovery 
processing and the solution obtained after finishing the silver recovery 
may be regenerated and reused. In case of a bleach-fixing solution, the 
solution is subjected to the inline silver recovery and the waste solution 
obtained after finishing the silver recovery is discharged, and the 
overflow of the bleach-fixing solution is regenerated and reused. 
The above processing solution having a fixing ability can be subjected to 
silver recovery by a known method, and effective as a silver recovering 
method are an electrolysis method (described in French Patent 2,299,667), 
a settling method (described in JP-A-52-73037 and German Patent 
2,331,220), an ion exchange method (described in JP-A-51-17114 and German 
Patent 2,548,237), and a metal substitution method (described in British 
Patent 1,353,805). The prosecution of these silver recovering methods from 
a tank solution in the line is preferred since rapid processing is further 
improved. 
In the present invention, the processing temperature in the desilvering 
process consisting of bleaching, bleach-fixing and fixing is 40.degree. to 
60.degree. C., preferably 40.degree. to 55.degree. C., and the pH is 3.0 
to 7.0, preferably 4.0 to 6.0. The processing time in the above 
desilvering process is preferably 4 minutes or less, more preferably 3 
minutes or less. 
After finishing a processing step having a fixing ability, the silver 
halide color photographic material is usually subjected to a water washing 
processing step or a stabilization processing step. There can be used a 
simple processing method in which after finishing the processing in the 
solution having the fixing ability, a stabilization processing with a 
stabilizing solution is carried out without substantially carrying out 
washing. 
Various surface active agents can be incorporated into washing water used 
in the washing process and the stabilizing solution used in the 
stabilizing process for the purpose of preventing unevenness due to water 
drop in drying. Among them, a nonionic surface active agent is preferably 
used and in particular, an alkylphenolethylene oxide adduct is preferred. 
Octyl-, nonyl-, dodecyl-, and dinonylphenols are particularly preferred as 
the alkylphenol moiety in the adduct. The addition mole number of ethylene 
oxide in the adduct is particularly preferably 8 to 14. Further, a silicon 
series surface active agent having a defoaming effect is preferably used 
as well. 
Various bactericides and fungicides can be incorporated into the washing 
water and stabilizing solution in order to prevent the generation of water 
grime and mold grown on a light-sensitive material after processing. 
Further, various chelating agents are preferably incorporated into the 
washing water and the stabilizing solution. There can be enumerated as the 
preferred chelating agent, aminopolycarboxylic acids such as 
ethylenediaminetetracetic acid and diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid, 
organic phosphonic acids such as 1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic 
acid, ethylenediaminetetracetic acid, and 
diethylenetriamine-N,N,N',N'-tetramethylenephosphonic acid, and the 
hydrolysis product of the maleic anhydride polymer described in 
EP-A-1345172. 
Further, the above preservatives which can be incorporated into the fixing 
solution and the bleach-fixing solution are preferably incorporated as 
well into the washing water and the stabilizing solution. 
In washing or stabilizing, processing by a multi-stage countercurrent 
system is preferred. The multi-stage countercurrent system which may be 
used can be applied to a transporting system which is provided with a 
conventional crossover rack. In order to improve washing efficiency, 
particularly preferred is a counter-current washing in a multi-chamber 
washing system in which a washing bath is divided into multi-chambers to 
squeeze in a solution at a bulkhead part, as described in JP-A-2-240651. 
There are needed for the number of the multi-chambers, two or more 
chambers, preferably three or more chambers, and more preferably four or 
more chambers. The washing efficiency is preferably increased with reverse 
osmosis equipment. The specification of the reverse osmosis equipment is 
preferably that water obtained after being transmitted through a reverse 
osmosis membrane is introduced into the following bath of a washing or 
stabilizing bath and a condensed solution is introduced into the preceding 
bath thereof, and most preferably that transmitted water is introduced 
into the final bath and the condensed solution is introduced into the 
front bath thereof. 
There can be used as a stabilizing solution used in a stabilizing process, 
a processing solution for stabilizing a dye image, for example, a solution 
containing an organic acid or having a buffer function with a pH of 3 to 
6, and a solution containing aldehyde (for example, formalin and 
glutaraldehyde). The stabilizing solution can contain all compounds which 
can be added to washing water. In addition thereto, there can be used 
according to necessity, an ammonium compound such as ammonium chloride and 
ammonium sulfite, the metal compounds of Bi and Al a fluorescent whitening 
agent, a hardener, and alkanolamine described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,786,583. 
Further, the stabilizing solution contains compounds for stabilizing a dye 
image, for example, formalin, benzaldehydes such as m-hydroxybenzaldehyde, 
hexamethyleneteramine and the derivatives thereof, hexahydrotriazine and 
the derivatives thereof, an N-methylol compound such as dimethylolurea and 
N-methylolpyrazole, organic acid, and a pH buffer agent. The preferred 
addition amount of these compounds is 0.001 to 0.02 mole per liter of the 
stabilizing solution. The lower concentration of free aldehyde contained 
in the stabilizing solution is preferred since less formaldehyde gas is 
discharged. Preferred as a dye image stabilizer from this point of view 
are N-methylolazoles described in JP-A-3-318644, such as 
m-hydroxybenzaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine, and N-methylolpyrazole, and 
azolylmethylamines described in JP-A-3-142708, such as 
N,N'-bis(1,2,4-triazole-1-ylmethyl)piperazine. Further, in addition 
thereto, preferably incorporated according to necessity are an ammonium 
compound such as ammonium chloride and ammonium sulfite, the metal 
compounds of Bi and Al a fluorescent whitening agent, a hardener, 
alkanolamine described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,786,583, and the preservatives 
which can be incorporated into the above mentioned fixing solution an 
bleach-fixing solution. Of them, preferred are the sulfinic compounds (for 
example, benzenesulfinic acid, toluenesulfinic acid, and the sodium and 
potassium salts thereof) described in JP-A-1-231051. The addition amount 
thereof is preferably 1.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.times.10.sup.-3 mole, 
particularly preferably 3.times.10.sup.-3 to 5.times.10.sup.-4 mole per 
liter of the stabilizing solution. 
The pH value of the stabilizing solution is preferably 6 to 9, more 
preferably 6.5 to 8. 
The replenishing amount in the washing process and the stabilizing process 
is 1 to 50 times, preferably 1 to 20 times, and more preferably 1 to 7 
times the carried-over amount from a preceding bath per unit area. The 
processing time is preferably 2 minutes and 30 seconds or less, more 
preferably 1 minute and 30 seconds or less in terms of the whole 
processing time in the washing process and/or the stabilizing process. 
City water can be used as water used in these washing process and 
stabilizing process. Preferably used is water which has been subjected to 
a deionization processing to provide the water with Ca and Mg ion 
concentrations of 5 mg/liter or less with an ion exchange resin, and water 
sterilized with a halogen and UV bactericidal lump. 
Then, a process in which the overflow solution from the washing process or 
the stabilizing process is flowed in a bath having a fixing ability, which 
is the preceding bath thereof, can be used to reduce the waste solution 
amount. 
In the processing according to the present invention, a suitable amount of 
water, or a correcting solution, or a processing replenishing solution is 
preferably added as replenishment to a processing solution in order to 
correct the concentration due to evaporation. The specific method for 
replenishing water is not specifically limited. Among them, preferred are 
the method in which a monitoring water bath is disposed independently from 
a bleaching bath to obtain the evaporated amount of water in the 
monitoring water bath and calculate the evaporated amount of water in the 
bleaching bath from this evaporated amount of water and water proportional 
to this evaporated amount is replenished to the bleaching bath, described 
in JP-A-1-254959 and JP-A-1-254960, and the evaporation correcting method 
in which a liquid level sensor and an overflow sensor are used, described 
in JP-A-3-248155, JP-A-3-249644, JP-A-3-249645, and JP-A-3-249646. City 
water may be used for water for correcting the evaporated amounts of the 
respective processing solutions. Preferably used are water used in the 
above washing process subjected to a deionization processing, and 
sterilized water. 
The area (an opening area) in which a solution contacts air is preferably 
as small as possible from the viewpoints of preventing the evaporation and 
deterioration of the solution. For example, based on the opening ratio 
obtained by dividing an opening area (cm.sup.2) with the volume (cm.sup.3) 
of the processing solution, the opening ratio is preferably 0.01 
(cm.sup.-1) or less, more preferably 0.005 or less. 
In the present invention, the respective processing solutions are used at 
10.degree. to 50.degree. C. Usually, a temperature of 33.degree. to 
38.degree. C. is standard. The processing is accelerated at an elevated 
temperature to shorten processing time, or on the contrary, the 
temperature can be lowered to achieve improvements in image quality and 
stability of the processing solution. 
The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of the 
present invention more easily demonstrates the effects and is effective in 
the case where it is applied to a film unit with a lens described in 
JP-B-2-32615 and JP-B-U-3-3-39784 (the term "JP-B-U" as used herein means 
an examined Japanese utility model publication).

EXAMPLES 
The present invention will be explained below in more details with 
reference to the examples, but the present invention is not be limited 
thereto. 
EXAMPLE 1 
The following layers were coated on a subbed polyethylene 2,6-dinaphthalate 
support, in which a thickness of the support has 85 .mu., on the opposite 
side of an emulsion layer on which a magnetic material for a magnetic 
recording is coated so as to be 0.10 of yellow optical density of the 
magnetic recording material, whereby there was prepared Sample 101 which 
was a multi-layer color light-sensitive material comprising the respective 
layers having the following compositions. 
Composition of the light-sensitive layers: 
The primary materials used for the respective layers are classified as 
follows: 
ExC: Cyan coupler 
ExM: Magenta coupler 
ExY: Yellow coupler 
ExS: Sensitizing dye 
UV: UV absorber 
HBS: High boiling organic solvent 
H: Gelatin hardener 
The coated amounts are expressed in terms of g/m.sup.2 of silver for silver 
halide and colloidal silver, in terms of g/m.sup.2 for the couplers, 
additives and gelatin, and in terms of mole per mole of silver halide 
contained in the same layer for the spectral sensitizers. 
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First layer (an anti-halation layer) 
Black colloidal silver 0.20 
Gelatin 1.00 
ExM-1 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
HBS-1 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Second layer (an intermediate layer) 
Gelatin 1.10 
UV-1 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
UV-2 6.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
UV-3 7.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExF-1 4.0 .times. 10.sup.-3 
HBS-2 7.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Third layer (a low speed red-sensitive emulsion 
layer) 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion A silver 
0.30 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion B silver 
0.25 
Gelatin 1.50 
ExS-1 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-2 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-3 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-5 
ExC-1 0.11 
ExC-3 0.11 
ExY-1 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExC-7 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
HBS-1 7.0 .times. 10.sup.-3 
Fourth layer (a middle speed red-sensitive emulsion 
layer) 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion C silver 
0.35 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion D silver 
0.60 
Gelatin 1.80 
ExS-1 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-2 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-3 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-5 
ExC-1 0.16 
ExC-2 8.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExC-3 0.17 
ExC-7 1.5 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExY-1 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExY-2 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Cpd-10 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
HBS-1 0.10 
Fifth layer (a high speed red-sensitive emulsion 
layer) 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion E silver 
1.00 
Gelatin 1.40 
ExS-1 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-2 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-3 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-5 
ExC-5 7.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExC-6 8.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExC-7 1.5 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExY-1 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
HBS-1 0.15 
HBS-2 8.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Sixth layer (an intermediate layer) 
Gelatin 0.60 
P-2 0.17 
Cpd-1 0.10 
Cpd-4 0.17 
HBS-1 5.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Seventh layer (a low speed green-sensitive emulsion 
layer) 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion F silver 
0.15 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion G silver 
0.20 
Gelatin 0.50 
ExS-4 5.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-5 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-6 0.3 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExM-1 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExM-2 0.20 
ExY-1 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Cpd-11 7.0 .times. 10.sup.-3 
HBS-1 0.20 
Eighth layer (a middle speed green-sensitive 
emulsion layer) 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion H silver 
0.70 
Gelatin 0.90 
ExS-4 5.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-5 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-6 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-5 
ExM-1 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExM-2 0.25 
ExM-3 1.5 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExY-1 4.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Cpd-11 9.0 .times. 10.sup.-3 
HBS-1 0.20 
Ninth layer (a high speed green-sensitive emulsion 
layer) 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion I silver 
0.90 
Gelatin 0.90 
ExS-4 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-5 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExS-6 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-5 
ExS-7 3.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExM-1 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExM-4 3.9 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExM-5 2.6 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Cpd-2 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Cpd-9 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
Cpd-10 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
HBS-1 0.20 
HBS-2 5.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Tenth layer (a yellow filter layer) 
Gelatin 0.70 
Yellow colloidal silver 5.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Cpd-1 0.20 
HBS-1 0.15 
Eleventh layer (a low speed blue-sensitive emulsion 
layer) 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion J silver 
0.10 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion K silver 
0.20 
Gelatin 1.00 
ExS-8 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExY-1 9.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
ExY-3 0.90 
Cpd-2 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
HBS-1 0.30 
Twelfth layer (a high speed blue-sensitive emulsion 
layer) 
Silver bromoiodide emulsion L silver 
0.80 
Gelatin 0.60 
ExS-8 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-4 
ExY-3 0.12 
Cpd-2 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-3 
HBS-1 4.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Thirteenth layer (a first protective layer) 
Silver bromoiodide fine grains 
0.20 
(average grain size: 0.07 .mu.m, 
AgI: 1 mole %) 
Gelatin 0.80 
UV-2 0.10 
UV-3 0.10 
UV-4 0.20 
HBS-3 4.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
P-3 9.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
Fourteenth layer (a second protective layer) 
Gelatin 0.70 
B-1 (diameter: 1.5 .mu.m) 0.10 
B-2 (diameter: 1.5 .mu.m) 0.10 
B-3 2.0 .times. 10.sup.-2 
H-1 0.40 
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Further, following Cpd-3, Cpd-5 to Cpd-8, P-1, P-2, and W-1 to W-3 were 
added in order to improve preservation performance, processing 
performance, anti-pressure performance, anti-mold and fungicidal 
performances, anti-electrification performance, and a coating performance. 
In addition to the above, B-4, F-1 to F-11, an iron salt, a lead salt, a 
gold salt, a platinum salt, an iridium salt, and a rhodium salt were 
appropriately incorporated into the respective layers. 
Next, the list of the emulsions used in the present invention and the 
chemical structures or chemical names of the compounds are shown below. 
TABLE 1 
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Average grain 
Variation coef- 
Diameter/ 
Average projected 
Average AgI 
size/sphere-cor- 
ficient in grain 
thick- 
area circle-corre- 
Average 
Emulsion 
content (%) 
responding size (.mu.m) 
size distribution (%) 
ness ratio 
sponding size (.mu.m) 
thickness 
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(.mu.m) 
A 2.0 0.2 12 1 -- -- 
B 2.0 0.3 14 1 -- -- 
C 4.7 0.3 12 1 -- -- 
D 4.7 0.5 8 1 -- -- 
E 8.8 0.65 22 6.5 1.06 0.16 
F 2.9 0.15 16 1 -- -- 
G 2.9 0.25 18 1 -- -- 
H 4.7 0.45 10 1 -- -- 
I 8.8 0.60 25 7.2 1.01 0.14 
J 3.0 0.2 30 4.5 0.29 0.064 
K 3.0 0.5 26 7.0 0.84 0.12 
L 9.0 0.85 23 6.5 1.39 0.21 
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In the above Table 1, the value of average grain size/sphere-corresponding 
size and the value of average 
TABLE 2 
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Grain structure = (silver amount molar 
Emul- ratio-core/middle/shell] 
sion (AgI content mol %)], Grain form 
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A Uniform structure 
cubic grain 
B Uniform structure 
cubic grain 
C Triple structure = 
[4/1/5] (1/38/1) cubic grain 
D Triple structure = 
[4/1/5] (1/38/1) cubic grain 
E Triple structure = 
[12/59/29] (0/11/8) tabular grain 
F Triple structure = 
[45/5/50] (1/38/1) octahedral grain 
G Triple structure = 
[45/5/50] (1/38/1) octahedral grain 
H Triple structure = 
[4/1/5] (1/38/1) octahedral grain 
I Triple structure = 
[12/59/29] (0/11/8) tabular grain 
J Uniform structure 
tabular grain 
K Uniform structure 
tabular grain 
L Triple structure = 
[8/59/33] (0/11/8) tabular grain 
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In Tables 1 and 2: 
(1) the respective emulsions were subjected to a reduction sensitization 
with thiourea dioxide and thiosulfonic acid in the preparation of the 
grains according to the examples of JP-A-2-191938; 
(2) the respective emulsions were subjected to a gold sensitization, a 
sulfur sensitization and a selenium sensitization in the presence of the 
spectral sensitizing dyes described in the above respective layers and 
sodium thiocyanate according to the examples of Japanese Patent 
Application No. 2-34090; 
(3) low molecular weight gelatin was used in the preparation of the tabular 
grains according to the examples of JP-A-l-158426; and 
(4) the dislocation lines described in Japanese Patent Application No. 
2-34090 were observed in the tabular grains and regular crystal grains 
having a grain structure with a high pressure electron microscope. 
##STR6## 
Samples 102 to 104: 
ExY-1 contained in the third layer, the fourth layer and the fifth layer of 
Sample 101 was replaced with ExC-4 in a 2.5 times molar amount (Coupler 27 
described in JP-A-57-151944), E-3 in a 1.2 times molar amount (Coupler 10 
described-in JP-A-3-198048), and D-8 in a 1.2 times molar amount (Coupler 
14 described in JP-A-3-228048, respectively, whereby Samples 102 to 104 
were prepared. 
Samples 105 and 106: 
ExY-1 contained in the seventh layer, the eighth layer and the eleventh 
layer of Sample 101 was replaced with D-14 in a 1.5 times molar amount 
(Coupler 16 described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,782,012) to obtain Sample 105 and 
with E-3 in a 1.2 times molar amount to obtain Sample 106. 
Samples 107 to 112: 
ExY-1 contained in Sample 101 was replaced with the couplers of the present 
invention as shown in Table 3, whereby Samples 107 to 112 were prepared. 
The addition amounts of D-5, D-6, D-17, E-4, E-5, E-10, and E-11 to ExY-1 
were set at 2.5, 1.6, 1.3, 1.8, 1.6, 1.3 and 1.4 times mole, respectively. 
After subjecting these samples to an even green color exposure, they were 
subjected to a red color imagewise exposure and then to the following 
color development. The value obtained by deducting a magenta density at 
the point of a cyan fog density from a magenta density at a cyan density 
(fog+1.0) was obtained as the color turbidity of magenta in a cyan dye 
image. Similarly, after subjecting the samples to an even green color 
exposure, they were subjected to a blue color imagewise exposure to 
thereby obtain a magenta color turbidity in a yellow dye image. 
Samples 101 to 112 were slitted to a width of 35 mm to process them to a 
135 size and 24 photographing exposures. Then, a 10 mm.times.1 mm portion 
thereof were subjected to an X-ray irradiation and to the following color 
development at a linear velocity of 10 cm/min. The difference in the 
densities of a yellow color at the front exposure and end exposure of the 
X-ray irradiated portions was evaluated as a processing unevenness. 
Further, each of these samples was loaded in Minolta .alpha.-7700i and a 
18% gray plate was photographed therewith at ISO 100, and 100 rolls were 
continuously processed. The respective samples were subjected to a 
sensitometry and a color developing exposure before and after the 
continuous processing to obtain a relative sensitivity change from the 
exposure providing a yellow density (fog+0.2). 
The color development processing was carried out in the following manner. 
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Processing method: 
Processing 
Tempera- Replenishing 
Tank 
Step Time ture Amount Capacity 
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Color 3 minutes & 
38.degree. C. 
900 ml 10 l 
developing 
15 seconds 
Bleaching 
1 minute 38.degree. C. 
460 ml 4 l 
the entire amount of overflowed bleaching 
solution was flowed into the bleach-fixing 
solution tank. 
Bleach-fixing 
3 minutes & 
38.degree. C. 
700 ml 8 l 
15 seconds 
Washing (1) 
40 seconds 
35.degree. C. 
* 4 l 
Washing (2) 
1 minute 35.degree. C. 
700 ml 4 l 
Stabilizing 
40 seconds 
38.degree. C. 
460 ml 4 l 
Drying 1 minute & 
55.degree. C. 
15 seconds 
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*A countercurrent piping system from (2) to (1). 
Replenishing amount is per m.sup.2. 
Next, the compositions of the processing solutions are shown below: 
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Tank Replenishing 
Color developing solution 
Solution Solution 
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Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic 
1.0 g 1.1 g 
acid 
1-Hydroxyethylidene-1,1- 
2.0 g 2.0 g 
diphosphonic acid 
Sodium sulfite 4.0 g 4.4 g 
Potassium carbonate 
30.0 g 37.0 g 
Potassium bromide 1.4 g 0.7 g 
Potassium iodide 1.5 mg -- 
Hydroxylamine sulfate 
2.4 g 2.8 g 
4-[N-ethyl-N-(.beta.-hydroxy- 
4.5 g 5.5 g 
ethyl)amino]-2-methylaniline 
sulfate 
Water was added to make 
1.0 l 1.0 l 
the total quantity 
pH (adjusted with potassiun 
10.05 10.10 
hydroxide and sulfuric acid) 
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Bleaching solution (common to the tank solution and the 
replenishing solution) 
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Ferric ammonium ethylenediamine- 120.0 
g 
tetracetate diihydrate 
Disodium ethylenediaminetetracetate 10.0 
g 
Ammonium bromide 100.0 
g 
Ammonium nitrate 10.0 
g 
Bleaching accelerator 0.005 
mole 
(CH.sub.3).sub.2 N--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --S--S--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 
--N(CH.sub.3).sub.2 2HCl 
Aqueous ammonia (27%) 15.0 
ml 
Water was added to make the total 1.0 
l 
quantity 
pH (adjusted with aqueous ammonia and 6.3 
nitric acid) 
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Tank Replenishing 
Bleach-fixing solution 
Solution Solution 
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Ferric ammonium ethylene- 
50.0 g -- 
diaminetetracetate dihydrate 
Disodium ethylemediamine- 
5.0 g 2.0 g 
tetracetate 
Sodium sulfite 12.0 g 20.0 g 
Ammonium thiosulfate 
240.0 ml 400.0 ml 
aqueous solution 
(700 g/liter) 
Aqueous ammonia (27%) 
6.0 ml -- 
Water was added to make 
1.0 1.0 l 
the total quantity 
pH (adjusted with aqueous 
7.2 7.3 
ammonia and acetic acid) 
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Washing water (common to both of the tank solution and replenishing 
solution) 
City water was introduced into a mixed bed type column filled with an H 
type strong acidic cation exchange resin (Amberlite IR-120B) and an OH 
type strong base anion exchange resin (Amberlite IRA-400) each 
manufactured by Rohm & Haas Co., Ltd. to reduce the ion concentrations of 
calcium and magnesium to 3 mg/liter or less, respectively, and 
subsequently sodium dichloroisocyanurate 20 mg/liter and sodium sulfate 
0.15 g/liter were added. pH of this solution was in the range of 6.5 to 
7.5. 
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Stabilizing solution (common to the tank solution and 
the replenishing solution) 
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Sodium-p-toluenesulfonate 0.03 g 
Polyoxycyethylene-p-monononylphenyl ether 
0.2 g 
(average polymerization degree: 10) 
Disodium ethylenediaminetetracetate 
0.05 g 
1,2,4-Triazole 1.3 g 
1,4-Bis(1,2,4-triazole-1-ylmethyl)- 
0.75 g 
piperazine 
Water was added to make the total 
1.0 l 
quantity 
pH 8.5 
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TABLE 3 
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DIR coupler in 
DIR coupler in 
Color turbidity 
Color turbidity 
Relative 
the 3rd, 4th, 
the 7th, 8th, 
of magenta in 
of magenta in 
Processing 
sensitivity 
Sample No. 
and 5th layer 
and 11th layer 
cyan image 
yellow image 
unevenness 
change* 
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101 (Comp.) 
ExY-1 ExY-1 0.01 -0.01 0.08 -0.02 
102 (Comp.) 
ExC-4 ExY-1 -0.01 -0.01 0.08 -0.02 
103 (Comp.) 
E-3 ExY-1 -0.01 -0.01 0.08 -0.02 
104 (Comp.) 
D-8 ExY-1 -0.03 -0.01 0.08 -0.02 
105 (Comp.) 
ExY-1 D-14 0.01 0.02 0.05 -0.01 
106 (Comp.) 
ExY-1 E-3 0.01 -0.04 0.05 -0.02 
107 (Inv.) 
D-5 E-10 -0.05 -0.07 0.03 0.00 
108 (Inv.) 
D-6 E-10 -0.05 -0.07 0.03 0.00 
109 (Inv.) 
D-17 E-10 -0.07 -0.07 0.02 0.00 
110 (Inv.) 
D-17 E-4 -0.07 -0.06 0.02 0.00 
111 (Inv.) 
D-17 E-5 -0.07 -0.06 0.03 0.00 
112 (Inv.) 
D-17 E-11 -0.07 -0.05 0.01 0.00 
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It is apparent from the results summarized in Table 3 that the samples of 
the present invention have an excellent color reproduction performance 
represented by a color turbidity and a processing unevenness in a 
processing direction and a sensitivity reduction immediately after a 
continuous processing are small and therefore that the present invention 
is effective. 
EXAMPLE 2 
The replenishing solution composition and the replenishing amount in 
Example 1 were changed as shown below, and the sensitivity change in a 
continuous processing was measured similarly to Example 1. 
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Tank Replenishing 
Color developing solution 
Solution Solution 
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Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic 
2.0 g 2.0 g 
acid 
1-Hydroxyethylidene-1,1- 
2.0 g 2.0 g 
diphosphonic acid 
Sodium sulfite 3.9 g 5.1 g 
Potassium carbonate 
37.5 g 39.0 g 
Potassium bromide 1.4 g 0.4 g 
Potassium iodide 1.3 mg -- 
Hydroxylamine sulfate 
2.4 g 3.3 g 
2-methyl-4-[N-ethyl-N- 
4.5 g 6.0 g 
(.beta.-hydroxyethy)amino]- 
aniline sulfate 
Water was added to make 
1.0 l 1.0 l 
the total quantity 
pH (adjusted with potassium 
10.05 10.15 
hydroxide and sulfuric acid) 
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Tank Replenishing 
Bleaching solution 
Solution Solution 
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Ferric ammonium 1,3-diamino- 
130 g 195 g 
propanetetraacetate 
monohydrate 
Ammonium bromide 70 g 105 g 
Ammonium nitrate 14 g 21 g 
Hydroxyacetic acid 
50 g 75 g 
Acetic acid 40 g 60 g 
Water was added to make 
1.0 l 1.0 
the total quantity 
pH 4.4 4.4 
(adjusted with aqueous ammonia) 
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Fixing tank solution 
15 to 85 (volume ratio) mixed solution of the above bleaching tank solution 
and the following fixing tank solution (pH 7.0). 
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Tank Replenishing 
Fixing solution Solution Solution 
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Ammonium sulfite 19 g 57 g 
Ammonium thiosulfate 
280 ml 840 ml 
aqueous solution 
(700 g/liter) 
Imidazole 15 g 45 g 
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic 
15 g 45 g 
acid 
Water was added to make 
1.0 l 1.0 l 
the total quantity 
pH 7.4 7.45 
(adjusted with aqueous ammonia) 
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Washing water 
City water was introduced into a mixed bed type column filled with an H 
type strong acidic cation exchange resin (Amberlite and an IR-120B) OH 
type strong base anion exchange resin (Amberlite IRA-400) each 
manufactured by Rohm & Haas Co., Ltd. to reduce the ion concentrations of 
calcium and magnesium to 3 mg/liter or less, respectively, and 
subsequently sodium dichloroisocyanurate 20 mg/liter and sodium sulfate 
150 mg/liter were added. pH of this solution was in the range of 6.5 to 
7.5. 
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Stabilizing solution (common to the tank solution and 
the replenishing solution) 
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Sodium p-toluenesulfonate 0.03 g 
Polyoxyethylene-p-monononylphenyl ether 
0.2 g 
(average polymerization degree: 10) 
Disodium ethylenedianinetetracetate 
0.05 g 
1,2,4-Triazole 1.3 g 
1,4-Bis(1,2,4-triazole-1-ylmethyl)- 
0.75 g 
piperazine 
Water was added to make the total 
1.0 l 
quantity 
pH 8.5 
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These samples were cut to the width of 35 mm and the cut samples subjected 
to photographing with a camera were subjected to the following processing 
by 1 m.sup.2 per day over the period of 15 days. 
The respective processings were carried out with the automatic developing 
machine FP-560B manufactured by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. in the following 
manner. 
The processing processes and the processing solution compositions are shown 
below. 
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Processing steps 
Processing 
Tempera- Replenishing 
Tank 
Step Time ture Amount Capacity 
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Color 3 minute & 
38.0.degree. C. 
23 ml 17 l 
developing 
5 seconds 
Bleaching 
50 seconds 
38.0.degree. C. 
5 ml 5 l 
Bleach-fixing 
50 seconds 
38.0.degree. C. 
-- 5 l 
Fixing 50 seconds 
38.0.degree. C. 
16 ml 5 l 
Washing 30 seconds 
38.0.degree. C. 
34 ml 3.5 l 
Stabilizing (1) 
20 seconds 
38.0.degree. C. 
-- 3 l 
Stabilizing (2) 
20 seconds 
38.0.degree. C. 
20 ml 3 l 
Drying 1 minute & 
60.degree. C. 
30 seconds 
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Replenishing amount is per 1.1 meter of the light-sensitive material with a 
35 mm width (corresponding to 24 exposures in a single roll). 
The stabilizing process is of a countercurrent system from (2) to (1), and 
all of the overflowed solution from the washing bath was introduced into 
the fixing bath. The bleach-fixing solution was replenished in such a 
manner that notches were provided at the upper part of the bleaching bath 
and the upper part of the fixing bath of the automatic developing machine, 
and all of the overflowed solutions which were generated by supplying the 
replenishing solutions to the bleaching bath and fixing bath were flowed 
in the bleach-fixing bath. The amounts of the developing solution carried 
over to the bleaching bath, the bleaching solution carried over to the 
bleach-fixing bath, the bleach-fixing solution carried over to the fixing 
bath, and the fixing solution carried over to the washing bath were 2.5 
ml, 2.0 ml, 2.0 ml, and 2.0 ml per 1.1 meter of the light-sensitive 
material with a 35 mm width, respectively. The crossover time is 6 seconds 
at each carry over, and this time is included in the processing time of 
the preceding process. 
The compositions of the processing solutions are shown below: 
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Replenishing amount 
550 ml 450 ml 
Replenishing 
Replenishing 
Color developing solution 
Solution A Solution B 
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Diethylenetriaminepentacetic 
1.1 g 1.1 g 
acid 
1-Hydroxyethylidenel,1- 
2.0 g 2.0 g 
diphosphonic acid 
Sodium sulfite 5.1 g 5.5 g 
Potassium carbonate 
37.5 g 38.5 g 
Potassium bromide 
0.4 g 0.1 g 
Hydroxylamine sulfate 
3.3 g 3.6 g 
4-[N-ethyl-N-(.beta.-hydroxyethyl) 
6.0 g 6.5 g 
amino]-2-methylaniline sulfate 
Water was added to make 
1.0 l 1.0 l 
the total quantity 
pH adjusted with potassium 
10.05 10.18 
(hydroxide and sulfuric acid) 
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TABLE 4 
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Sensitivity change* 
Replenishing Replenishing 
Sample No. Solution A 550 ml 
Solution B 450 ml 
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101 (Comp.) -0.04 -0.07 
102 (Comp.) -0.04 -0.07 
103 (Comp.) -0.04 -0.06 
104 (Comp.) -0.04 -0.06 
105 (Comp.) -0.02 -0.04 
106 (Comp.) -0.03 -0.05 
107 (Inv.) -0.01 -0.02 
108 (Inv.) -0.01 -0.02 
109 (Inv.) -0.01 -0.02 
110 (Inv.) -0.01 -0.01 
111 (Inv.) -0.01 -0.02 
112 (Inv.) -0.01 -0.01 
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*in the continuous processing. 
It is apparent from the results summarized in Table 4 that the samples of 
the present invention have less sensitivity change in the continuous 
processing compared with the comparative samples and particularly that 
while the replenishing amount in Table 3 is 900 ml, the processing in 
which the replenishing amount is small increases the effects thereof. 
EXAMPLE 3 
There were prepared samples in which D-5 contained in Samples 107 in 
Examples 1 and 2 was replaced with D-9, D-11 and D-13 in an amount of 0.8, 
0.6 and 0.5 times molar amount of D-5, respectively, and samples in which 
E-10 contained in Sample 109 was replaced with E-11, E-13, E-14, and E-15 
in an amount of 1.0, 0.9, 0.9 and 1.6 times molar amount of E-10, 
respectively. The samples thus prepared were evaluated in the same manner 
as those in Examples 1 and 2 to observe that the color reproduction 
performance represented by a color turbidity was good and the processing 
unevenness also was small and that the fluctuation in the photographic 
performances in the continuous processing was small as well. 
While the invention has been described in detail and with reference to 
specific embodiments thereof, it will be apparent to one skilled in the 
art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without 
departing from the spirit and scope thereof.