Patent ID: 8357485

Claim:
A color photographic silver halide element comprising a transparent support having an imaging side and a back side, and having on the imaging side thereof, in order: one or more blue light sensitive layers, each blue light sensitive layer comprising gelatin or a gelatin derivative and junk consisting of one or more yellow image-forming couplers, one or more permanent coupler solvents, one or more stabilizers, one or more dyes, one or more oxidized developer scavengers, and silver halide grains, one or more red light sensitive layers, each red light sensitive layer comprising gelatin or a gelatin derivative and junk consisting of one or more cyan image-forming couplers, one or more permanent coupler solvents, one or more stabilizers, one or more dyes, one or more oxidized developer scavengers, and silver halide grains, and green light sensitive layers, each green light sensitive layer comprising gelatin or a gelatin derivative and junk consisting of one or more magenta image-forming couplers, one or more permanent coupler solvents, one or more stabilizers, one or more dyes, one or more oxidized developer scavengers, and silver halide grains, provided that the total gelatin level of all blue, red, and green light sensitive layers on the imaging side of the support is less than 9000 mg/m 2 , and the bulk gelatin-to-junk weight ratio for the total of all of the blue, red, and green light sensitive layers on the imaging side of the support is greater than 1.5, wherein the bulk gelatin-to-junk weight ratio is defined by the following equation: Bulk gelatin-to-junk ratio=[( B gel ×B gel/junk )+( R gel ×R gel/junk )+( G gel +G gel/junk )]÷( B gel +R gel +G gel ) wherein B gel is the total gelatin level for all of the one or more blue light sensitive layers, B gel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for all of the one or more blue light sensitive layers, R gel is the total gelatin level for all of the one or more red light sensitive layers, R gel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for all of the one or more red light sensitive layers, G gel is the total gelatin level for all of the one or more green light sensitive layers, and G gel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for all of the one or more green light sensitive layers.