Silver halide photographic material and method of processing the same

A method of processing a silver halide photographic material which comprises image-wise exposing said photographic material and processing said photographic material with an automatic developing machine wherein the replenishment rates of a developer and a fixer are each controlled to at most 200 ml/m.sup.2, wherein said photographic material comprises on a support at least one layer of a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains having a chloride content of at least 50 mole % and containing a metal selected from rhodium, ruthenium and rhenium in an amount of at least 10.sup.-8 mole per mole of silver, said silver halide emulsion being spectrally sensitized with a compound having a structure represented by the following general formula (I) and being chemically sensitized with a selenium or tellurium compound:

• ##STR18## wherein Z and Z.sub.1 each represents a group of nonmetallic atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic nucleus;
• R and R.sub.1 each represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, or an unsubstituted aryl group;
• Q and Q.sub.1 each represents a group of atoms necessary to complete a 4-thiazolidinone, 5-thiazolidinone or 4-imidazolidinone nucleus;
• L, L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents an unsubstituted or substituted methine group;
• n.sub.1 and n.sub.2 each represents 0 or 1;
• X represents and anion, m represents 0 or 1, wherein m=0 indicates that the dye forms an inner salt.

A method of processing a silver halide photographic material which comprises image-wise exposing said photographic material and processing said photographic material with an automatic developing machine wherein the total processing time is adjusted so as to be within the range of 15 to 60 seconds, wherein said photographic material comprises on a support at least one layer of a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains having a chloride content of at least 50 mole % and containing a metal selected from rhodium, ruthenium and rhenium in an amount of at least 10.sup.-8 mole per mole of silver, said silver halide emulsion being spectrally sensitized with a compound having a structure represented by the following general formula (I) and being chemically sensitized with a selenium or tellurium compound:

• ##STR19## wherein Z and Z.sub.1 each represents a group of nonmetallic atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic nucleus;
• R and R.sub.1 each represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, or an unsubstituted aryl group;
• Q and Q.sub.1 each represents a group of atoms necessary to complete a 4-thiazolidinone, 5-thiazolidinone or 4-imidazolidinone nucleus;
• L, L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents an unsubstituted or substituted methine group;
• n.sub.1 and n2 each represents 0 or 1;
• X represents an anion;
• m represents 0 or 1, wherein m=0 indicates that the dye forms an inner salt.