Patent ID: 7105286

Claim:
A silver halide photographic material comprising on one side of a paper support having resin coat layers on both sides of a base paper one or more light-sensitive layers and one or more light-insensitive layers, wherein after the photographic material of an L-size (having a length of 89 mm in a machine direction of the base paper and a length of 127 mm vertical to the machine direction) is processed, the photographic material exhibits an image clarity (C-value) of 20% to 60% which is determined using a 1.0 mm optical wedge in accordance with JIS K 7105; and the photographic material comprising a light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer between a light-sensitive layer closest to the support and the support, the light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer containing a mercapto-heterocyclic compound.