Photographic silver halide materials and process comprising new pyrazoloazole couplers

A photographic element comprising a support, at least one photographic silver halide emulsion and a photographic coupler represented by the structure:

• ##STR70## wherein:
• J is a substituent;
• Q is hydrogen or a coupling-off group;
• X, Y and Z are individually selected from carbon and nitrogen atoms necessary to complete an azole ring;
• R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 are individually hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
• R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 are individually hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted aryl or ##STR71## wherein at least one of R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 is alkyl, aryl or ##STR72## R.sub.12 is unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted aryl or NH--R.sub.13 ;
• R.sub.13 is unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or unsubstituted or substituted aryl and further wherein said silver halide emulsion is a silver bromoiodide emulsion.

A process of forming a photographic image which comprises developing an exposed silver halide emulsion layer with a color developing agent in the presence of a photographic pyrazoloazole coupler wherein the pyrazoloazole coupler has substituted on the azole ring of the coupler a group represented by the formula:

• ##STR75## wherein:
• R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are individually hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
• R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are individually hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted aryl, or ##STR76## wherein at least one of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is alkyl or aryl or ##STR77## R.sub.5 is unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, or NH--R.sub.6 ;
• and R.sub.6 is unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl and further wherein said silver halide emulsion layer is a silver bromoiodide emulsion layer.