Light-sensitive color photographic material

Claim 2

A silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material which comprises a support and coated thereon a light-sensitive layer containing a compound which, upon reaction with an oxidized color developing agent, is capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibitor and a negative type light-sensitive silver halide emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide crystals consisting essentially of monodispersed silver halide crystals having a size distribution satisfying the following relationship: S/r≦0.15; wherein S=√Σ(r-r i ) 2 n i 2 /Σn i and r=Σn i r i /Σn i ; and wherein S represents the standard deviation, r represents the average crystal size, r i represents the crystal size of individual silver halide crystals and n i represents the number of crystals.

Claim 3

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 1, wherein said silver halide crystals are in a form selected from the group consisting of octahedrons, tetradecahedrons, and a combination of octahedrons and tetradecahedrons.

Claim 4

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 2, wherein S/r is not greater than 0.10.

Claim 5

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said compound which is capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibitor is a compound represented by the formula A-Z wherein A represents a residue capable of releasing Z upon reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agent and Z represents a split-off residue which, upon reaction of said compound with the oxidized color developing agent, forms a development inhibitor.

Claim 6

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said compound which is capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibitor is a compound represented by the formula; A--TIME--Z wherein A represents a residue capable of releasing Z upon reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agent; Z represents a split-off residue which, upon reaction of said compound with the oxidized color developing agent, forms a development inhibitor; and TIME represents a divalent group capable of retarding the release of Z.

Claim 7

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 5, wherein said compound is represented by formula; ##STR17## wherein X 1 is selected from the group consisting of a phenylene group, a substituted phenylene group, a naphthylene group and a substituted naphthylene group, and R 1 and R 2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group.

Claim 8

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 5, wherein said compound is represented by formula; ##STR18## wherein R 1 and R 2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, and X 2 represents a group of atoms necessary to form a divalent pyrazole-di-yl group or a divalent substituted pyrazole-di-yl group.

Claim 9

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 5, wherein said compound is represented by formula; A--Nu--Y--E--Z [3] wherein Nu represents a nucleophilic group containing an oxygen, sulphur or nitrogen atom, Y represents a divalent group which is capable of causing under alkaline conditions, an intra-molecular nucleophilic substitution reaction by forming a three-membered or five-membered ring and thus is capable of releasing Z after the release of --Nu--Y--E--Z from A, and E represents an electrophilic group containing a carbonyl, thiocarbonyl, phosphinyl or thiophosphinyl group.

Claim 10

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said silver halide crystal is silver iodobromide.

Claim 11

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein r is in the range of 0.3 to 1.5 microns.

Claim 12

A silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material which comprises a support and coated thereon (a) a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, (b) a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler and (c) a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, at least one of said blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers comprising a monodispersed silver halide emulsion containing light-sensitive negative type silver halide crystals consisting essentially of monodispersed crystals satisfying the following relationship; S/r≦0.15; wherein S=√Σ(r-r i ) 2 n i 2 /Σn i and r=Σn i r i /Σn i ; and wherein S represents the standard deviation, r represents the average crystal size, r i represents the crystal size of the individual crystals and n i represents the number of crystals; and at least one of said blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers containing a compound which, upon reaction thereof with an oxidized color developing agent, is capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibitor.

Claim 13

A silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material which comprises a support and coated thereon (a) a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, (b) a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler and (c) a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, at least one of said blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers comprising a monodispersed silver halide emulsion containing light-sensitive negative type silver halide crystals consisting essentially of monodispersed crystals satisfying the following relationship; S/r≦0.15; wherein S=√Σ(r-r i ) 2 n i 2 /Σn i and r=Σn i r i /Σn i ; and wherein S represents the standard deviation, r represents the average crystal size, r i represents the crystal size of the individual crystals and n i represents the number of crystals; and at least one of said blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers containing a compound which, upon reaction thereof with an oxidized color developing agent, is capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibitor.

Claim 14

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 11, wherein each of said blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers comprise at least two layers at least one of said at least two layers having relatively high light-sensitivity and at least one of said at least two layers having relatively low light-sensitivity.

Claim 15

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 11 or 12, wherein S/r is not greater than 0.10.

Claim 16

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 12, wherein said compound is incorporated in at least one of the relatively low light-sensitive layers.

Claim 17

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 11 or 12, wherein said compound is incorporated in the green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.

Claim 18

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 11, wherein said compound is incorporated into each of said blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers.

Claim 19

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 12, wherein said compound is incorporated into each of said blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers.

Claim 20

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 11, 12, 16 or 17, wherein said crystals are in a form selected from octahedrons tetradecahedrons, and a combination of octahedrons and tetradecahedrons.

Claim 21

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 11 wherein r is in the range of 0.3 to 1.5 microns.

Claim 22

The silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material according to claim 13 wherein r is in the range of 0.3 to 1.5 microns.