Patent ID: 7476494

Claim:
A silver halide photosensitive material having at least one blue-sensitive layer, at least one green-sensitive layer, and at least one red-sensitive layer, on a transparent support, wherein at least one of the green-sensitive layers contains a coupler represented by general formula (I) or general formula (Z), and all of the green-sensitive layers contain a silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains having an average equivalent-spherical diameter of 0.24 μm or less: General formula (I) wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Y represents a nonmetal atom group containing 1 or 2 nitrogen atoms and necessary for forming a 5-membered azole ring containing 2 or 3 nitrogen atoms, and the azoic ring may optionally have a substituent (including a condensed ring); X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being eliminated at the time of coupling reaction with an oxidant of a developing agent; General formula (Z) wherein a represents an integer of 0 to 3; b represents an integer of 0 to 2; each of R 1 and R 2 is independently hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an acylamino group, a sulfonamide group, a sulfamoyl group, a carbamoyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkoxysulfonyl group, an aryloxysulfonyl group, an alkylureido group, an arylureido group, a nitro group, a cyano group, a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group; R 3 is a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; X and Y are a direct bond or a bonding group; and B 1 and B 2 are a stabilizing group that does not diffuse the coupler.