Methods using oximes for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

A method for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material after image-wise exposure to radiation comprising a support having thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a blocked photographic agent capable of releasing a photographically useful agent, which method comprises processing the photographic light-sensitive material in the presence of a non-polymeric oxime represented by the following formula (I) which has 1 to 10 carbon atoms:

• ##STR11## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom;
• R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted methyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted ethyl group;
• and R.sup.3 represents a phenyl group having at least one ortho-hydroxy group and may be further substituted, a substituted or unsubstituted hydroxylimino group, a substituted or unsubstituted pyridyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted purinyl group or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 form a ring selected from cyclopentane, cyclohexane, cyclohexadiene, cycloheptane, cycloheptadiene, indane or fluorene, and each of the these rings may be substituted, wherein the compound of general formula (I) is added to a developing solution and wherein the blocked photographic agent releases a mercapto or an azole antifoggant, said blocked agent being present in the photographic light-sensitive material in an amount of from about 10.sup.-9 to 10.sup.-1 mol per mol of silver.