Patent ID: 7314707

Claim:
A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains, wherein a variation coefficient of equivalent-circle diameters of all the silver halide grains is 30% or less, and 70% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains are occupied by silver halide grains each meeting requirements (i), (ii), (iii) and (viii) below: (i) silver bromochloroiodide tabular grain having (111) faces as main planes, (ii) having an epitaxial portion junctioned to at least one apex portion thereof, (iii) having at least one mesh-like dislocation line in an epitaxial portion thereof, and (viii) hexagonal tabular grain in which the ratio of the length of an edge having a maximum length to the length of an edge having a minimum length is 2 or less.